VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam's first professional basketball team is honored to be the first club to host the Southeast Asian basketball festival 2013, which will take place at the Tan Binh and Phu Tho stadiums, HCM City, on March 15-17.

VietNamNet Bridge – Chairman Nguyen Cong Tien of Xuan Yen Commune in the central province of Thanh Hoa was filmed while playing cards. The clip was sent to the higher authorities and relevant agencies.

After Dak Lak, Gia Lai and Phu Yen provinces decided to discontinue hydropower projects, Kon Tum Province in the central highlands of Vietnam has followed suit and decided against any further hydropower projects.

 U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday unveiled their budget blueprint for the new fiscal year starting October 1, a competing version to the House GOP plan and the first budget in the Senate in four years.

VietNamNet Bridge - At least 2,000 books teaching Chinese language for children that are published and released in Vietnam were detected to include Chinese maps with the "U-shaped line."

VietNamNet Bridge – The hospitality industry in HCMC is feeling the ever-stronger pressure of competition from other localities in terms of international arrivals, although the city still maintains its leading position,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Saigontourist Holding Company is in preparations to boost river tourism in HCMC, checking existing products and preparing to launch new ones in the next few weeks, the corporation said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The performance of a contemporary dance named “Rural market” by artist Dao Anh Khanh has been boycotted by the public, including farmers.

The Poster Da Nang Electronic Co. Ltd has nearly 1,000 bachelor degree holders who work as normal workers. This is just a single example demonstrating the shortcomings and imbalance of the current human resource training in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of fatal accidents have continuously occurred along National Highway 1A in the central provinces, raising concerns about traffic safety on this stretch of road.

 PM Dung: ACMECS focuses on three goals; Vietnam wants stronger ASEAN-Japan defence ties; Vietnamese, German top legislators hold talks; President welcomes Lao legislator

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam hoped to further its economic integration into major markets, including the US, through negotiations at regional and world forums.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly's specialised deputies generally approved of the drafted revision of the 1992 Constitution, especially the leading role of the Party laid out in Article 4 of the constitution.

Having been settling in the western area of the southern region for the last decades, local residents still cannot lead peaceful lives because their houses may blown off at any time, making them homeless.

VietNamNet Bridge – The famous royal garden in the former imperial city of Hue will be brought back to its original design in a restoration project to be completed next month.

Trang Tien Plaza has been re-positioned as a luxurious goods shopping mall. Will its new appearance and the new way of operation help the shopping mall change their fate?

Big technology groups in the world have landed in Vietnam, bringing with them their latest-generations blockbusters.

 European Union (EU) leaders are scheduled to meet in Brussels Thursday and Friday to iron out measures to promote growth and create jobs in Europe which is still mired in the debt crisis.

If noting that some foreign telecom groups have to leave Vietnam after a period of staying here, one would think that Vietnam is not a promising land for foreign telcos.

Latin America's first pope -- Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- will be known as Francis, rather than Francis I, until such time as a future pope chooses the same name.

MOET met the representatives from non-state owned schools on March 5 to discuss the solutions to rescue the schools from sinking. However, the efforts have failed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ba Na Hills Mountain Resort in the central city of Danang will open its third cable car route on March 29 after 420 days of construction.

When selling a kilo of coffee beans, Vietnam earns two dollars, which is equal to the price of a cup of coffee sold in foreign countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 50 young artists are holding an exhibition in Hue City featuring a wide range of themes and media.

VietNamNet Bridge - The daily life in old apartments in Hanoi through the lens of photographers become both familiar and strange.