Thank an ancient squirrel, climate change and French scientists for the new discovery of an ancient virus, Mollivirus sibericum, that sounds like it could launch a creepy movie.

 Vietnam beer festival-exBEERience Fest is set to get underway in SC Vivo City Rooftop on 1058 Nguyen Van Linh street, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City from 4.30pm on November 11-15.

 A Hanoi delegation led by Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao recently toured Geneva and Bern in a bid to boost multifaceted cooperation between the Vietnamese capital city and the Swiss cities.

 The time-honoured amity between Vietnamese and Cambodian armies and peoples is expected to thrive in the years to come.

The joint vision statement on Vietnam-Japan relations, issued during Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s official visit to Japan, affirmed their mutual resolve to intensify bilateral ties in all realms for the sake of the two peoples.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received Singaporean Minister of Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang, who is in Vietnam to attend the ground-breaking ceremony of the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park on September 16.

 Lienvietpost Bank Information suffered their second consecutive loss at the 2015 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship in the northern Ha Nam Province on September 15.

 Authorities will tighten the management of multi-level marketing activities to effectively control the operations of related business organisations.

  Firemen in Ha Noi rescued 25 people from a fire broke out in a 35-storey Linh Dam residential quarter in Ha Noi's Hoang Mai District at around 10am today.

VietNamNet Bridge - Businesses and analysts have questioned the State Bank of Vietnam’s (SBV) statement that it would not devalue the dong any further until the end of 2015.

  Major art & entertainment events in big cities from Sept. 15-30.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tens of thousands of vehicles inched along on roads deeply submerged under water, caused by a 142 mm rainfall yesterday afternoon, the biggest rain of the year in HCM City.

 Launched at the end of April, the Viettel Group’s over-the-top (OTT) app called Mocha Messenger has now reached more than 1 million users.

VietNamNet Bridge - The 20km metro route worth approximately $2.5 billion in HCM City is under urgent construction to put into use in five years.

 Six historical and legendary plays will be restaged this week by the IDECAF Drama Troupe in HCM City, as part of Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations around the city.

 Nearly 1,000 years ago, a young Gaelic man came to a violent end among the dispersed farmsteads of northwestern Ireland.

 Japan advised almost 3 million people to evacuate after heavy flooding killed seven people and left at least 15 missing in the eastern region of the country.

 Hungary closed one of the main routes Tuesday that migrants are using to reach the European Union - plugging the final hole in its border fence with Serbia.

VietNamNet Bridge - Circular No 41 released by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) is expected to cause problems for domestic air carriers, according to lawyers and airline companies.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Cool air throughout the year and wonderful beaches are an excellent reason for tourists to visit Vietnam in summer.

 VietNamNet Bridge – We chose Ke Ga Lighthouse as the first stop in our recent trip from Saigon to the central region and were impressed by its imposing beauty though we had heard much of the site in the south-central province of Binh Thuan.

Kachnar trees planted near Gen Giap's tomb, Whirlwind blows away roofs of houses, Vietjet Air launches shocking Tet promotion, Thai Nguyen: Death sentence for drug trafficker, Fifth National Volunteer Awards launched

A four-photo collection titled ‘Wishing Peace for Truong Sa’ and two other photos on art construction of Vietnamese painter Nguyen Thu Thuy have been chosen to enter the final round

 Inga Kerber, a photographer from Germany, will display her art which deals with landscapes, forests and nature at an exhibition that open today (September 16) in Ha Noi.

 The total charter capital of the country's 12 smallest commercial banks by the end of the second quarter was worth only VND37.694 trillion (US$1.675 billion).