VIETNAM TODAY

The Ministry of Education and Training has asked the Hanoi People's Committee to issue regulations to standardise the fees.

Over 2,000 pigs were found to be affected by blue-ear pig disease Long An and Tien Giang provinces, said the Veterinary Department.

Farmers in a village in Nghe An Province have been catching rats to top up their earnings and protect their crops for years.

Tiger Woods carded his 2nd straight 68 but found himself well off the pace in third round of the US PGA Tour's Frys.com Open.

Many international schools in Ho Chi Minh City are recruiting students for courses without a license.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney is set to marry his American fiancee Nancy Shevell in London on Sunday, media reports said.

Travel firms in the Mekong province of An Giang are offering tours for visitors to experience the flood season between late July and mid-October.

"Whisper to lotus", a solo exhibition to mark 55 years of creating silk paintings debuts on Wednesday in HCM City.

Authorities in Dak Lak Province have decided to prosecute a former forest management official at the Yok Don National Park for illegal logging of timber.

The International Women’s Beach Volleyball Tournament-Khang Linh Cup 2011 opened in Vung Tau City on October 7.

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad came under greater pressure as Russia told him to either reform and Washington said he should "step down now".

Vietnam's central bank said on Thursday it would raise the refinance rate, one of its policy rates, by 100 basis points to 15 percent on October 10.

As Thailand battles to keep its worst floods in decades from swamping Bangkok, anger is growing among residents upriver who say their homes are being sacrificed to keep the capital dry.

Primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City are facing a serious shortage of English teachers.

The United Nations has warned that floods in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand would push up rice price.

Rare evidence of the long-held belief that humans are still evolving has been unearthed in the parish records of a French-Canadian island on the Saint Lawrence seaway, researchers say.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung requested Cuba to step up cooperation and investment in Vietnam while receiving Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment in Hanoi.

Climate negotiators said they made progress on laying out ways to help poor countries but deep differences remained on core issues ahead of talks in Durban, South Africa.

It is now the high inbound tourism season, but travel firms seem to be not too optimistic about the number of travellers.