VIETNAM TODAY

The second annual Nuclear Power Asia 2011 conference opened in Hanoi on January 18, drawing the participation of over 120 delegates from Asian countries.

Nguyen Phu Trong was elected the General Secretary of the 11th Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee.

Monthly pension benchmark for old people aged 60-80 will be increased, while person aged 80 and over will receive VND 270,000 as of March, 2011.

Many taxi companies have added more vehicles to their fleet to serve rising demand in Hanoi in a prolonged cold spell.

The average rent for an office in Ho Chi Minh City decreased by 9.1% last year, according to CBRE Vietnam.

Four ministers in Tunisia's new unity government pulled out a day after being appointed amid popular rage against the continued presence of the ousted president's party.

WHO chief Margaret Chan warned that the health community needs to tackle strong and "worrisome" public mistrust of vaccines, following signs of a tail-off in flu vaccination.

The international press coverage of Party Congress XI provides the world audience with better understanding about the developing Vietnam.

China's President Hu Jintao arrived in the US for a state visit promising frank talk over economics and currency disputes, but likely to expose a wide gulf over human rights.

Roughly 10,000 buffaloes and cows in northern mountainous provinces of Vietnam dropped dead from the prolonged cold.

The 11 th CPV elected 175 official members and 25 alternate members to CPV Central Committee for the 11 th tenure.

Delegates to the 11th National Party Congress voted on some issues in the congress documents at a plenary session.

Can Gio District in Ho Chi Minh City has closed the list of 875 local households eligible to receive pollution compensation money from Vedan Vietnam.

The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city's garbage dumps.

Students from the smallest ethnic minority groups at all education levels will be exempted from education fees beginning in March.

Vietnam and Brazil share the same strategy of sustainable development of coffee sector, said Brazilian Ambassador to Vietnam Joao de Mendonca Lima Neto.

Recently it has not been easy to find an appropriate place to read and present literary works in Ho Chi Minh city.

Every year during Tet employees in many companies expect high bonuses, while for teachers the bonuses are slim to none.

The Ministry of Health has issued a fresh swine-flu warning after four new cases were detected in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City last week.