VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh emphasised the need to build a Code of Conduct (COC) in the East Sea as a more effective tool to ensure the region’s common goals.

VietNamNet Bridge – University candidates from the provinces have descended on Ha Noi to sit entrance exams, which start tomorrow, July 3.

VietNamNet Bridge – Duong Thi Viet Anh will be the second representative of Viet Nam's track-and-field team at the upcoming London Olympics after success yesterday at the Asian All Star Athletics Meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

VietNamNet Bridge – Sixteen teams will compete in the final round of the National Children's Football Championship in Vinh Phuc Province from today to July 8.

Vietnamese diplomats visit Russian province; UK Minister Browne visits Vietnam; Vietnamese, Mexican parties strengthen ties; Voters' opinions count, says Party leader

Spain stood on top of Europe by beating the 10-man Italy 4-0 in the final on Sunday night.

VietNamNet Bridge – The foreign currency market has heated up again when credit institutions begin collecting dollars. The pressure on foreign currency reserves and dong/dollar exchange rate is believed to be harder in the time to come.

VietNamNet Bridge – Construction violations are rampant in the capital, driven by the rapid pace of development, poor planning and investor awareness, and insufficient collaboration among Government agencies,

VietNamNet Bridge – The first runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2010 Vu Hoang My will represent Vietnam at the Miss World 2012 pageant in Ordos, China, this August. She has three weeks to prepare for this event.

After the information about the toxic substance residues in vegetables was spread out, urban dwellers have become amateur farmers when they try to grow vegetables right at their apartments.

VietNamNet Bridge – Japan will continue to support Vietnam’s development through provision of official development assistance (ODA), says Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko.

For the Khmer ethnic people in the Southwestern region, pagodas are considered a special cultural and spiritual space imbued with strong religious faith.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s U22 football team has failed to proceed to the final round of the 2013 Asian U22 Tournament after loosing to Malaysia 0-3 on June 30.

In spite of the struggling realty market, project owners in Hanoi have still launched a host of products and they are luring homebuyers with promotions in soft loan programs and slashing real estate prices.

Six teachers have been sacked after the Doi Ngo exam cheating case for their behavior of giving exam answers to students. However, in the eyes of students and colleagues, they are more sinned against than sinning.

Baidu Tra da quan, a Chinese social network makes in Vietnam on July 1 has appeared on a lot of websites in Vietnam. Besides the social network, the Chinese company has been implementing a series of other projects, quietly.

The increasingly high proportion of monthly income spent on food shows that the living standard of Vietnamese people has been decreasing. The overly high inflation rate in Vietnam has been described as a heavy tax imposed on people.

The Ministry of Finance expects that 350,000 enterprises will register to use digital signatures by the year-end, according to a report in Dau Tu newspaper.

Not many people know about Ia Nhi Waterfall in Gia Lai Province and do you know what they are missing out?

VietNamNet Bridge – Located in a canyon in Vinh Dong commune of the northern province of Hoa Binh, is a unique cemetery in Vietnam.

The number of “people’s servants” (civil servants) in Vietnam is perhaps highest in the world. Quang Vinh, a small commune in the central province of Thanh Hoa, has up to 500 civil servants, according to Vietnam Agriculture Newspaper.

If you Google “the shortest man in the world,” you will receive a million results. None of the shortest men on the planet who have been known so far, is less than 54.6cm tall but in Vietnam, there is a man who is only 52cm tall and 9kg in weight.

Viet Nam has sought capital to upgrade its power transmission grid because the system risked being overloaded as demand for power consumption continues to increase.

Export businesses must be better prepared to cope with the increasing number of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy lawsuits filed by the US, and other export markets, experts have warned.

Since SOEs still cannot prove that they deserve to be the leader in the national economy, a lot of economists look at the private economic sector with the hope that this would be the new driving force for the national economy.