VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s female sepak takraw team has won a silver medal at the 3rd Asian Beach Games in Shandong, China.

VietNamNet Bridge – Party Politburo member Dinh The Huynh visited the Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA), the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Tien Phong (Vanguard) and Lao Dong (Labour) newspapers in Hanoi on June 20.

VietNamNet Bridge – Da Lat authorities on June 18 exploded mines to destroy 50m out of hundred meters of tunnels dug by illegal tin miners in the Valley of Love, a famous tourist destination.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and the US will strengthen ties in non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, anti-terrorism, drugs and transnational crimes prevention, disaster relief, sea security, and search and rescue activities.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese government has issued a number of policies to use energy effectively and develop the nation’s energy network to serve its socio-economic development.

Though Vietnam has a close legal framework on protecting forests and wildlife, the laws seem unhelpful. Green forests still have been devastated, while wild animals still have been killed.

Vung Ro is a small bay in Phu Yen Province. During wartime, it was a secret place for receiving armaments transported from the North to the South by sea. Today, it has become a famous lobster raising area in the province.

Egypt's presidential election commission decided on Wednesday to delay the announcement of presidential run-off results, originally scheduled for Thursday, until the completion of reviewing all appeals from both rivals.

VietNamNet Bridge – High inventory volume remains the biggest threat to enterprises. Not only expensive products such as cars, motorbikes, but essential goods such as fish sauce have also been selling slowly.

While old people, the students of the previous generations, have expressed their anger about the exam cheating activities, young students believe that the boy who filmed the violations at the Doi Ngo High School, made a “foolish thing.”

A mobile white van offering anonymous testing for HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) and syphilis in Singapore has drawn more to take the test since December last year, local daily Straits Times reported on Wednesday.

While the local authorities and farmers have to spend hundreds of trillions of dong to develop the material growing areas and improve old and stunted coffee trees, foreign enterprises just have to wait and get the upper hand of the material sources.

PM requires careful monetary policies; Bad debts hamper bank restructuring; AirAsia expands operations in Vietnam; Rice exports surge in five months; PM approves US$147 mln urban development project; State construction firms to be equitised 

A long-distance bus plunged into a ravine in east China's Fujian Province early Wednesday, killing 17 people and injuring 28 others, local authorities said.

Two emerging models--Martha Hunt and Michele Ouellet came to Vietnam to take pictures in Hoi An, Hanoi, Ha Long and Hue. In the lens of photographers Joshua Allen and Thomas Northcut, Vietnam appears peacefully and beautifully.

Book celebrates late war photographer; Vietnamese movie nominated at Shanghai film fest; Goethe Institute offers free movie screening; Books on discount this summer

Illegal Chinese fisheries workers deported; Pituitary tumor linked to Vietnam’s tallest man; Smuggling of animal organs difficult to stop

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi Department of Transport will tighten rules on providing replacement driving licences in an effort to prevent people from having more than one driving licence, said the department's deputy director Nguyen Xuan Tan.

U.S. stocks closed higher on Tuesday as investors' expectations of further monetary easing policy by the Federal Reserve boosted the market, while positive news from Europe also provided support.

VietNamNet Bridge – A romantic story from “One Thousand and One Nights” will be told by the body language of belly dancing at the Au Co Theatre, Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – A woman and her daughter in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, who were naked to hinder guards of a construction company from revoking her land, will have to pay aVND80,000 ($4) fine for breaking habits and customs.

Hundreds of Vietnamese coffee companies have been perishing in the home market, since foreign invested enterprises now corner the coffee material sources which have been developed by the State and farmers for years.

VietNamNet Bridge – The finance report about the business performance in the first four months of 2012 showed that enterprises incurred heavy losses, while the 71 commercial banks made fat profit.

Unsatisfied about the slow application of open source software, management agencies are considering applying more drastic measures to speed up the process.

A lot of domestic tours under the tourism promotion program have been described as the “trap” for travelers. Clients think they can save money with the low cost tours, but in fact, they are overcharged.