VIETNAM TODAY

Poland take on Greece in the opening match of Euro 2012, with the match threatening to be overshadowed by fresh racism fears.

Shortly after a petroleum price cut, the Ministry of Finance has also decided to increase petrol import tax to 8%.

Ha Tinh provincial government requested investors of National Highway 8A to quickly repair aging sections on the highway.

Vietnamese enterprises should see economic difficulties as a chance to for restructuring, one official said.

There are millions of Vietnamese tourists traveling abroad every year with expenditures amounting to billions of USD, but this segment has yet to be controlled tightly.

Acclaimed Hollywood Director of Photography David Worth has accepted the Wisdom House‘s invitation to lecture for Vietnamese students in HCM City from June 22-24.

Mr. Vo Quoc, director of the Vietnamese Gastronomy Company, has been selected as the first Vietnamese Culinary Culture Ambassador.

The Debt and Asset Trading Corporation and Bianfishco asked banks to turn their loans in the firm into contributed capital.

Manchester City Captain Vicent Kompany received a warm welcome from hundreds of Vietnamese fans after landing at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City.

Teachers working in the Vietnam Friendship Village did not receive any State allowances while regulations said that they are eligible for allowances worth 70% of their salaries.

The State Bank of Vietnam has purchased USD9 billion so far this year, said Governor Nguyen Van Binh.

The Shaw Prize and the Kavli Prize have both gone to Dr Jane X. Luu, a senior Vietnamese-American scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, and her colleagues.

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon warned of an "imminent" threat of civil war in Syria saying President Bashar al-Assad has "lost all legitimacy."

The South Korean newspaper Sport Chosun has accused Vietnamese pop singer Bao Thy of plagiarising the concept of a South Korean singer's music video.

A UN climate science task force urged the adoption of new measures aimed at providing the broadest and most accurate snapshot of carbon emissions ahead of Rio+20.

A team of orthopedic surgeons from Switzerland gave free medical check-ups to disable children in the northern province of Tuyen Quang on June 5-6.

The national women’s rowing team has clinched five gold, three silver and four bronze medals at the 2012 Asia Rowing Cup in Singapore.

Hanoi will relocate additional 5,020 households from the old quarter in order to decrease population density in the area.

The European crisis and mandated budget cuts and tax hikes pose big risks for the US economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress.