VIETNAM TODAY

Mining companies will have to deposit at least 15 per cent of their committed costs for environmental rehabilitation and restoration prior their mineral extraction.

A number of higher education scams have been revealed recently which pose potential dangers for the education system.

Since the SBV started to lower the interest rate, many banks have also lowered their lending rates, fueling the real estate market.

A new route will shorten the distance between the capital and Ha Long Bay from 168 to nearly 130 km, said Cao Tuong Huy, chief of the local People's Committee Secretariat.

England scraped into the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 after a goal-line refereeing blunder helped them to a 1-0 win over Ukraine which sent the co-hosts crashing out.

Many parents have sent their children abroad to study in the hope their bad behaviour will improve.

Nearly 50 Italian and Vietnamese businesses attended a seminar entitled “Vietnam in Umbria”.

The PM issued instruction on the socio-economic development plan and budget estimates for 2013.

Iran and world powers failed to narrow differences over the Iranian nuclear drive after bruising talks in Moscow.

Disappointed with the Ministry of Education and Training’s swimming teaching program, parents now bring their children to swimming practice classes themselves.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City are conducting an inspection of medical waste-treatment management at local health establishments this month.

Vietnam has passed a law banning smoking in public places and all tobacco advertising, an official said Tuesday.

Hong Kong police evacuated scores of people after an unexploded World War II-era bomb was discovered at a construction site.

Greece began a second day of coalition talks under the gun after elections won by a pro-euro party that also reflected rising anger against austerity.

Suffering from the terrible smell, hundreds of households in Lang Co town in Thua Thien Hue province have to seal the manholes of a waste water treatment project.

Ministries should be allowed to sell their headquarters to increase the State budget, said Minister of Construction Trinh Dinh Dung.

From the boxing ring to Broadway, Mike Tyson said he's teaming up with director Spike Lee to take his one-man show to the New York stage.

NA lawmakers agreed on renewing operational management, administrative decentralisation, State supervision instead of controlling publishing and printing units.

The pilot system for street trading requiring the use of listed prices in Hanoi seems not to have been effective.