VIETNAM TODAY

World Cup-winning skipper Ricky Ponting said he intended to continue playing Test cricket for Australia despite being told he had no future in the national one-day team.

Police in Thua Thien-Hue Province announced that they had carried out a raid on a large-scale cockfighting ring.

The number of cases of hand, foot and mouth disease in the first 6 weeks of the year has reached 6,328.

Eurozone finance ministers sealed a deal for a massive new bailout of Greece early Tuesday, several sources said.

Yemeni voters head for the polls, ending President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule and thus making Yemen the first Arab state where a revolt has led to a negotiated settlement.

Relevant Vietnamese agencies will spare no effort to support Laos to organise the 9 th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM-9) scheduled for Vientiane on Nov. 5-6 this year.

Representatives from businesses of Vietnam and Argentina gathered in Hanoi on Feb. 20 for the first connectivity and technology forum between the two countries.

Eurozone chiefs moved early towards closing a deal for a massive new bailout of Greece.

The Guol communal house of the Co Tu ethnic people in Quang Nam Province has been used as a preschool class.

Organisers and teachers of tutoring classes would be required to pay personal income tax on their earnings, according to the draft circular by the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Vietnamese delegation won three gold, five silver and three bronze medals at the 2012 International Youth Invention Exhibition, says the Vietnam National University of Science.

The avian flu virus has genetically changed into new, highly toxic viruses that spread easily and resist vaccines while Vietnam has no vaccines to prevent these new kinds of flu in humans.

Everything you know about dieting is wrong, say US scientists who have devised a new formula for calculating calories and weight loss.

Illegal petrol continued flood Hanoi streets despite its Department of Market Management tightening control over petrol dealing.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has predicted that the weaker import demand and a controlled weakening of the exchange rate by the SBV will help stabilise VND in 2012.

Public places nationwide are under fire inspection and regulations, according to a decision by the Minister of Public Security, which follows recent big fires with losses of tens of millions of dollars.

UN nuclear watchdog officials arrived in Tehran for discreet talks on Iran's suspect atomic activities, amid a worsening international showdown that has sent tensions and oil prices soaring.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin vowed that Russia would strengthen its military might and offer an "asymmetrical and effective" response to the deployment of a NATO missile shield.

Danang’s government is calling for the construction of underground car parking lots in a bid to mitigate traffic congestion.