Projects steering disadvantaged children away from drugs are to be given an extra €4m, it was announced today.

Vietnam plans to vaccinate nearly 2.3 million children against polio, following an outbreak in Indonesia that has infected more than 200 people.

Five people convicted of murder and drug trafficking in separate cases were executed by firing squads in Vietnam, state-controlled media reported today.

Indonesia warned today that it could lose a million jobs because of an outbreak of bird flu.