When the National Assembly is about to conduct the vote of confidence for senior state officials, a prominent event caused strong "aftershock." It is the speech of PM Nguyen Tan Dung in the opening session of the 12th Shangri La Dialogue.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCMC urges the launch of a campaign called “Five Nations - One Destination” with the participation of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, aiming for a region with a uniform tourist visa

 VietNamNet Bridge - To avoid environmental pollution and bird flu, the HCM City authorities do not allow raising swiftlets in the downtown area and the new urban areas, except for Can Gio District.

 North Korea said Friday it would restore an official hotline with rival South Korea, but pushed back at Seoul's proposal of ministerial-level talks to be held in Seoul next week.

IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the science advisory organization to UNESCO, has confirmed that it has proposed not to grant the “world’s natural heritage” to the Vietnamese Cat Tien National Park.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The hands of famous artists like Prof. Dr. Tran Van Khe, People's Artist Le Thuy, singer Quang Dung, musician Nguyen Anh 9 ... are casted precisely for exhibition and preservation.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila Putina on Thursday announced their divorce.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has affirmed Viet Nam's consistent policy of building a dynamic and competitive market economy in a speech at the 2013 World Economic Forum on East Asia in Myanmar yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The US House Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on June 5 held a hearing on US-Vietnam relations with Representative Steven Chabot in the chair.

Experts all have agreed that it’s necessary to offer big investment incentives to encourage investors to pour money into wind power projects, but they still have not agreed on how big the preferences should be.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies met yesterday, June 6, in the capital to discuss proposed changes to Viet Nam's Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

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Universities have been mushrooming. But most of them have low quality training and poor material facilities, the report on supervising the implementation of the National Assembly’s resolutions on university education reads.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has become a party to the newly-signed charter to establish a Public Interest Group (GIP) of the European Consortium for Asian Field Study (ECAF).

A fundamental question is how can all nations, especially powers, be motivated to act in accordance with international law. The answer could be found in PM Nguyen Tan Dung's Shangri-La address.

 Apple attorneys in the US antitrust case on e-books went on the offensive, attacking the credibility of government witnesses and seeking to debunk key elements of the government's case.

Vietnamese businesses, which are thirsty for capital, want to call for foreign capital to improve the business situation. However, they fear that they may become the aiming points of the foreign companies’ hostile takeover plans.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said yesterday, June 5, that only five children in Viet Nam died after being injected with the Korean-made Quinvaxem vaccine early this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s Goethe Institute will host the second DocNet Southeast Asia Summer School from June 8–17, a boon to the region’s emerging documentary filmmakers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Moc Chau Plateau in the northwestern mountainous province of Son La may be the perfect destination for you if you are looking to escape from the summer heat.

Accessing bank loans had never been an easy thing for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). However, things have become quite different -- banks have been trying to persuade SMEs to borrow money.

At the guidance of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Planning and Investment checked all golf course projects throughout the country. The Ministry rejected 76 projects and revoked over 15,600 hectares of land from these projects.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A doctor in Ha Noi was recently caught red-handed selling foetus gender test sticks, prompting the city's health officials to take this illegal business more seriously.

VietNamNet Bridge – While efforts in Ho Chi Minh City to reduce consumption of plastic bags have failed, recycling of junk plastic waste into diesel oil has opened new grounds for reuse of waste material.

 Future FTA to fuel Viet Nam, EU trade; Social housing conversion gets go-ahead; Vietnam manufacturing contracts in May; Red River Delta targets higher GDP; HCMC sees decline in imports, exports in May