VIETNAM TODAY

Protests erupted outside the main US military base in Afghanistan and in Kabul over allegations that foreign troops had set fire to copies of the Koran, police said.

Water quality in canals has worsened in Ho Chi Minh City with a constant flow of polluted waste being dumped from industrial units, despite the city authorities’ best efforts.

Tien Lang District authorities in Haiphong have decided to revoke their forcible land confiscation from Doan Van Vuon.

Party Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong vowed to deepen the relationship between both countries' parties during his meeting with Dominican counterpart, Miguel Mejia.

The Ministry of Finance decided to slash petroleum and jet fuel import taxes in order to support domestic petrol traders.

Residents in Hai Phong City have been anxious when the city's Party Secretary General Nguyen Van Thanh incorrectly conveyed the PM’s conclusion on the Tien Lang land repossession to local people.

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.