Almost two-thirds of Europe's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public and most feel discriminated against, an EU report said Friday,

VietNamNet Bridge – The benefits from the titanium exploitation are much smaller than the loses localities incur. Especially, the local people’s lives have been upset by the exploitation.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced a cuisine festival at the Dam Sen Cultural Park in District 11 from May 16 to 19 and a fruit festival at the Suoi Tien Cultural Park

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The shortage of relevant infrastructure facilities combined with the real estate slump has resulted in 60 per cent of villas and townhouses in new urban areas in Hanoi being left unfinished and unused.

VietNamNet Bridge – Award-winning dancer and now choreographer Linh Nga has to balance her passion for performance and teaching with her new role as a mother. She talks to the reporter about her latest production.

To be allowed to exploit sand in the Tien River, in addition to paying compulsory taxes, enterprises had to pay hundreds of millions dong to some officials of the Party Committee of Hong Ngu District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 37-year-old man was hit and killed by a truck while climbing a concrete median strip to cross Highway 1A in HCM City's Binh Tan District last Thursday night.

VietNamNet Bridge – Finnish Nokia still holds the biggest mobile phone market share in Vietnam. However, its Number 1 position has been shaken with the rise of Samsung.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese version of 2013 Tiger Translate Battle of The Bands, a rock reality TV show, will offer record cash prizes of VND100mil, VND50mil, and VND25mil for the winning, second, and third placed bands.

VietNamNet Bridge – Being the insomniac I am, I woke at 3am at what most would say is a crazy hour to have your eyes open, but I wanted to see a part of the city that doesn't adhere to a conventional working day.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A new Vietnamese regulation on pay TV effectively temporarily stops local viewers watching more than 20 foreign channels from Wednesday this week.

VietNamNet Bridge – The “deployment” of IPv6 in Vietnam has been going slowly because of the reluctance of enterprises, especially digital content firms.

VietNamNet Bridge – A collaborative film between Viet Nam and Japan about the famous 20th century Vietnamese nationalist Phan Boi Chau will be shot from June to July this year, with filming to take place in both countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The flowers associated with school age are blooming around the streets of Hanoi, together with the sound of cicadas to signal that the school year is passing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly (NA) will soon have its own TV channel to provide comprehensive reportage on the activities of the assembly and local People's Councils.

Tan Hiep Phat deserves credit for “changing the wasteland into cultivated land” when it marketed the first bottled green tea products in 2006.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The United Nations and its partners have announced that tetanus has been wiped out in more than 30 countries, including Vietnam, which previously had high rates of the illness.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ngo Van Quynh has spent 21 years creating green hydroelectric power plants. The three plants he built have a small capacity, but they save water, protect the environment and are quite economical.

 VietNamNet Bridge - According to the Committee for Social Affairs of the National Assembly, the current minimum wage in the public sector satisfies about 38.4 percent of the minimum living standard.

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite climbing the ranks at Vietnam Airlines and leading a sedentary life today, the beginnings of Nguyen Thanh Trung's career were fraught with risk and danger as he courageously fought in the war effort.

The number of students registering to attend the university entrance exams this year is lower than the last year, which is believed to be proof showing that Vietnamese students nowadays don’t try to follow university education at any cost.

VietNamNet Bridge – Former US soldier and artist Jim Gion first fell in love with Viet Nam when he was forced to serve here during the American War.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Approximately 100 hectares of preventive forests and 20 hectares of shrimp farms in Sam Son of Thanh Hoa Province, central Vietnam, have disappeared due to sea encroachment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government needs to adjust many of its roles and functions if wanting to achieve a healthier socioeconomic development, experts recommended at a conference held in Hanoi on Thursday.