Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday cut the outlook for the credit rating of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to negative from stable, warning that the rescue fund would lose its Aaa rating.

An agreement has been signed to ensure that the Paralympic Games will be held in the same city as the Olympic Games through until 2020.

The fact that one business borrows money from many different banks has been cited as the main reason behind the difficulties in reckoning bad debts.

Symphonies for piano by world-famous composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov will be performed by Guigla Katsarava with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra at Hanoi Opera House at 8 p.m. on August 17 and 18.

VietNamNet Bridge – Provinces and cities in the northern region have taken measures to avoid potential floods and landslides caused by Storm Vincente, which is forecast to hit the border area of Cao Bang and Lang Son provinces at 4pm today.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) in July declined for the second consecutive month, falling 0.29 percent, recording the lowest level in the month since 2004, General Statistics Office (GSO) reported on July 24.

A number of US senators have voiced their strong support for full and strict implementation of an ASEAN-China declaration on East Sea issues and called on all parties concerned to settle disputes peacefully and lawfully.

A Chinese map published in 1904 reveals that the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelagos did not belong to China.

US Senator John McCain has emphasized that China’s sovereign claims in the East Sea have no basis in international law.

Following Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa’s shuttle diplomatic efforts, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has reached a consensus on six-point principles on the East Sea.

VietNamNet Bridge – International veterinary experts will put in place a plan for epidemic control at regional level, targeted towards the elimination of bird flu in Vietnam,

VietNamNet Bridge – Cambodia wants to tighten cooperation in many fields with Vietnam, including the northern province of Bac Ninh, to deepen solidarity and friendship between the two countries.

The world economic crisis and the big difficulties in Vietnam both have led to the sharp falls of the foreign direct investment (FDI) from familiar sources. However, the US big economic groups still keep pouring capital into Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Children from Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia gathered yesterday, July 24, at HCM City's Nha Rong Wharf to take part in a five-day International Children's Summer Camp.

VietNamNet Bridge – The ministries of Justice and Natural Resources and Environment would work together to compile an inter-sector circular on land-use right auctions to better manage this kind of public asset and reduce violations.

Private tutoring has become the most popular job taken by university students, who want to earn money to feed themselves and fund their study.

VietNamNet Bridge – The growing trend of converging computer, TV and mobile phone has prompted firms to focus on generating contents to earn money.

The decision to relocate the Cau Trang coal sifting factory out of the residential quarter in Hong Ha ward of Ha Long City has been announced.

More than 150 foreign and Vietnamese scientists and managers discussed ways to preserve and promote the values of Halong Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh on July 24.

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on July 23 voted for Vietnam’s draft decision to dismiss the so-called Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF)’s application for consultative status with ECOSOC.

An airline passenger was sentenced to 15 months' probation and fined more than VND100 million (US$4,800) for joking about having bomb after boarding a flight from Hanoi to Da Lat.

Vietnamese students secured five medals, including two golds, one silver and two bonzes, at the 43rd International Physics Olympiad held in Estonia from July 13-25.

The establishment of a military garrison in the so-called Sansha City and the election of its municipal people’s council violates international law as well as Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos.

A lot of automobile manufacturers and car dealers, who have been weeping bitterly because of the slow sales caused by high taxes and fees, have shifted to another undertaking – trading pick-ups.

A novel approach to develop the first new tuberculosis combination drug regimen has cleared a major hurdle when Phase II clinical trial results have proved it could kill more than 99 percent of patients' TB bacteria within two weeks