VIETNAM TODAY

Former premier Iyad Allawi was to begin talks to form a government after his bloc edged out incumbent PM Nuri al-Maliki's coalition in declared results from Iraq's election.

The Can Tho Polyclinic aims to become the first hospital in the Mekong Delta and the third hospital in Vietnam to succeed in in-vitro insemination.

The planet is overheated, under-resourced, and almost out of time, but technical innovation and green economics could still save the day, experts and leaders said.

Farmers across the country are faced with increasing pressures as the prices of several categories of farm produce continue dropping sharply.

More than 500 households who lived on house boats around central Hue City have stepped ashore to live on dry land as part of a resettlement project.

Son Doong Cave continues to be explored, but future toursim development here is discouraged.

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan commended the "Top Ten Young Vietnamese" at an awards ceremony in Hanoi.

World-famous landmarks including the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower and Beijing's Forbidden City will go dark Saturday as millions turn out the lights for "Earth Hour".

Cyber attacks and virus dangers have increased alarmingly in Vietnam with over 1,000 websites attacked last year, doubling from 2008.

China and India will contribute over 1 billion mobile Internet users by 2015, according to a new research.

Vietnam opened its consulate general in Houston city in the US state of Texas on March 25, making it the second of its kind.

People in need weren't provided rice while people who did not really need rice were during Tet in Nghe An Province.

According to recent government decrees, minimum wages, pensions, social insurance and monthly allowances will be increased.

A new cable car system in the southern province of Binh Phuoc will highlight its tourism potential and attract investor interest in eco-tourism projects.

European leaders closed a deal changing the eurozone's rule-book, with loans, backed by the IMF, primed for miscreants like Greece.

Following a warning from the US that the diarrhea vaccine Rotarix may contain a pig virus, the Drug Administration of Vietnam sent an official query to GSK Vietnam.

A fire started on March 24 on the 25th story of the Keangnam tower, which is still under construction, on Pham Hung Road, Hanoi.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has begun to distribute 137.8 million doses of bird flu vaccine to 42 provinces and cities nationwide.

The online exchange on March 25 with representatives for 20 of the top universities in the UK was a huge success.