Former British rocker Gary Glitter was formally charged today with committing obscene acts with two girls aged 10 and 11 at a resort town on the coast of southern Vietnam, a prosecutor said.

Vietnam will detain former rocker Gary Glitter for three months while authorities investigate allegations he had sex with underage girls, a prosecutor announced today.

A Vietnamese prosecutor said today that Gary Glitter will be detained for three months under suspicion of committing obscene acts with a child.