VIETNAM TODAY

Power prices in Vietnam are very low compared with regional countries, which has been leading to energy squandering, officials said.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been named among top ten Asian cities for 2011 by the US Travel and Leisure magazine.

Doctors say Vietnamese consumers are being fooled by exaggerated ads about the cure-all benefit of nutritional supplements.

Two US astronauts have wrapped up the last spacewalk of the shuttle era at the International Space Station.

Discrimination hinders millions of disabled people in Vietnam from exercising their basic right for a healthy sex life.

South Korea’s cinema conglomerate CJ-CVG will spend USD73.6 million to own MegaStar, the largest multiplex cinema chain in Vietnam.

Huge financial violations at state-owned enterprises have been uncovered, said an official of the State Audit of Vietnam.

Preventive medicine centres have done a poor job of preventing the outbreak of dengue fever in children in HCM City, according to city officials.

The ADB will help the Greater Mekong Subregion scale up the use of agricultural biomass waste for its growing clean energy and food security needs.

The International Monetary Fund named Chinese economist Zhu Min to a new deputy managing director's position.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters & Producers said it would pursue the country’s claim against US-anti-dumping measures on its frozen shrimp shipments.

The rich and famous haven’t yet proved willing to buy their personalised site name.

Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami in March are set to make 2011 the costliest year on record for natural disasters, a German firm said.

The Vietnamese embassy in Russia held a fundraiser on July 11 to raise money for Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in the homeland.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's younger brother was assassinated on Tuesday depriving NATO of a vital if controversial ally.

70cm tall and less than 30kg in weight, an Agent Orange victim has been admitted to Danang University of Education.

China's central bank said the risks from local government borrowing were "controllable", despite growing concerns over bad loans.

Nhum Ba Island, in Kien Giang Province, has just seven households, the most crowded among the four islands of Nhum Ong, Nhum Trau, Nhum Ba and Nhum Gieng.

Parents are advised to use electric not mercury thermometers when taking their children's temperature or testing the heat of their babies' milk.