VIETNAM TODAY

An Afghan civilian employed on a NATO base shot dead three international coalition soldiers on Friday, the same day three others were killed by an Afghan policeman.

Two Vietnamese young football players have been chosen to join a month-long training course at Qatar's Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence.

Vietnam must take measures to reduce instances where workers stay on illegally in South Korea when their contracts expire, said Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan.

The Vietnam Register is preparing a plan to put motorbike exhaust under control in a move intended to ease pollution, said Trinh Ngoc Giao, head of the agency.

The Japanese Government will provide non-refundable aid worth almost 123,000 USD to a project to support victims of unexploded ordnance in Quang Tri Province.

The head of Libya's newly-empowered national assembly Mohamed al-Megaryef pledged to remain neutral and seek to unite ranks in the country.

Le Anh Dung, a Vietnamese student in the Czech Republic, has won two silver medals at the 2011 and 2012 International Mathematics Olympiads.

Facing a complicated development of the H5N1 virus, Ninh Binh authorities announced a bird flu outbreak in four villages.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the International Development Law Organisation held a seminar on building a legal framework for the management of climate change in Vietnam.

As a new academic year approaches, many provinces and cities are worried they will not have enough kindergarten and primary school teachers.

Faltering economic growth will undercut global oil demand this year and next, the International Energy Agency said Friday, citing slowdowns in China and the United States in particular.

Around 200 kids gathers at the Loc Ninh commune’s People’s Committee headquarters in Tay Ninh to watch movie at the free screenign held by the student volunteer club Share2Grow..

Hanoi has been encouraging investors to restore old multi-owned French villas to turn them into singly-owned properties.

Vietnam 's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has retained his position at 11th in the world rankings, according to the Badminton World Federation.

Manchester United slashed the price of its US share launch, cutting the amount it was raising in Friday's IPO to $233 million from a hoped-for $300 million or more.

Vietnam ranks 18th in the world top 20 countries using the internet, with over 30 percent of its population surfing the worldwide web.

Weary farmers in the Philippines' farming heartland struggled amid their worst floods in decades on Friday, as the death toll from torrential rains that also pounded the capital rose to 60.

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak is expected to visit islands at the heart of a territorial dispute with Japan, his spokeswoman said.

About half of local school teachers regret choosing teaching as their career, a survey says.