Economists keep holding the opposite viewpoint with the General Statistics Office, affirming that the national economy is sliding down and that businesses need recuperation urgently.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fencing is not a popular sport in Viet Nam, resulting in a limited number of training facilities.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fewer traffic accidents occurred during the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year, according to HCM City Traffic Safety Board.

World champions Japan got off to a winning start at the London Olympic Games women's soccer tournament when they beat Canada 2-1 on Wednesday.

A lot of commercial banks have been put on tenterhooks not only because of the bad debts of hundreds of trillions of dong owed by businesses, but also because they cannot ask money back from other banks.

VietNamNet would like to introduce a series of article about the presidential election in the US, by G. Calvin Mackenzie, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of Government at Colby College and a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Taekwondo martial artists have high hopes of winning medals at the Olympics after intensive training in South Korea.

Show promoters are blacklisting many traditional music singers, accusing them of being too picky and greedy.

The Hanoi Department of Transport has rejected a Ministry of Transport inspection report on the city’s use of pavements and roads.

Amateur golf tourney to begin; Judoist is first to open Olympic hopes for VN; Chi wins two gold at chess champs; Teams prepare for volleyball semis

Though it is stipulated in the law that managers of domestic travel firm must have at least three year experiences in the field, the provision has never been respected.

On summer evenings, thousands of young people gather at trà chanh (lemon green tea) shops in Hanoi’s Old Quarter not just to drink but also to chat.

The Trang An Tourism Complex in the northern province of Ninh Binh has great historical and geological value, experts declared at an international workshop held in Ninh Binh on July 24.

Ford Motor Company reported on Wednesday the U.S. automaker posted a profit of 1.04 billion U.S dollars in the second quarter of the year, or 26 cents per share, down by 57 percent from the same period last year.

An exhibition of ancient Vietnamese artifacts and an Oc Eo-Phu Nam civilisation room were jointly opened in Hanoi on July 25 by the Vietnam National Museum of History and the Thang long Artifacts Association. 

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City's well-known Rong Vang (Golden Dragon) Water Puppetry Troupe will take part in the Kijimuna Festa 2012 in Japan from July 28 to August 6.

NA Deputy Chairwoman receives WB Vice President; PM Dung receives international auditing delegation; Thai naval delegation in Hanoi

The commercial affairs in which some businesses in the northern sea city of Hai Phong were sold at 20,000 dong for each have raised big worries among the local authorities.

VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities and experts have called for efforts to make Viet Nam's urban centres and cities more climate change resistant.

Vietnam and Indonesia should strengthen cooperation and coordination from the standpoint of building a stronger and more developed ASEAN community, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

With the domain name changed into “.com” from a Vietnamese domain name “.vn”, which allows avoiding the registration at Vietnamese agencies, Chinese Baidu’s social network “Baidu Tieba” has made debut on schedule.

A Vietnamese student is recovering after being stabbed in the abdomen in a campus of Osaka University on July 24.

The U.S. State Department on Wednesday did not hesitate to offer its best wishes to Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) whose marriage was just confirmed.

VietNamNet Bridge – President of the Cambodian National Assembly (NA) Heng Samrin left Hanoi on July 25, concluding the official friendship visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Sinh Hung.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mai Phuong Thuy, Thuy Dung and Ngoc Han, who are Misses Vietnam in 2006, 2008 and 2010 appeared together in a set of fashion photos in HCM City recently.