Smart houses would help impulse the shifting to IPv6

The high demand for Internet addresses to develop smart houses would help speed up the shifting from IPv4 to IPv6.

Models welcome EURO by body painting

VietNamNet Bridge - Two Vietnamese models have decorated their bodies to welcome the European football championship.

The single combat between Hanel and Lotte for Daewoo Hanoi

It may be unknown to many people that Hanel only acquired the 70 percent of stakes from the South Korean investor after a thorny combat with another South Korean big guy – Lotte.

Catching or destroying fish?

VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities of Mekong Delta provinces have made a warning over the use of batteries, pesticides or dense-mesh nets to catch fish, considering these methods as the way to eradicate aquatic animals.

Phu Quoc island a paradise of pearls, sunsets and surprises

VietNamNet Bridge – Though I had heard much about the unique beauty of Phu Quoc, I could not help being amazed at its nature and specialities during my recent holiday to the largest island in Viet Nam.

Vietnamese soulfulness in water-colour paintings

Water-colour painting is a genre of art that originated in China. The paintings are done using Chinese ink on paper or silk. The main subjects of the paintings are trees, flowers, landscapes, animals and humans. Each painting includes a poem.

The hobby of breeding ornamental sea fish

Rearing ornamental sea fish is really a painstaking hobby. It is necessary to have a glass aquarium with a capacity of at least 160 litres.

VN leaders pledge to boost ties with Armenia

Viet Nam always attaches importance to maintaining, consolidating and developing ties with traditional friends, including Armenia in its diplomatic policy of independence, self-reliance, diversification and multilateralisation.

New brain target for appetite control identified

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified a brain receptor that appears to play a central role in regulating appetite..

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 9/6

S&P revises VN’s credit rating outlook to stable; Settling bad debts: money is not all that matters; 294 reputable export businesses announced; HCM City: 143 FDI projects licensed in five months; FDI from S Koreans falls 51%

SBV buys USD9 billion this year

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has purchased USD9 billion so far this year, said Governor Nguyen Van Binh.

Hanoi: Big candle explodes, little boy burned

VietNamNet Bridge – Because of power loss, an 11-year-old boy lit up a big candle. The candle unexpectedly exploded, fire flared up, catching to the boy’s clothes.

Traffic police rescue mother and child attempting to suicide

VietNamNet Bridge – When policemen came, the woman was attempting to throw a little girl to the Red River. The girl was heart-rending--crying and clinging to the banister.

Football fans frenetically welcome Man City FC’s captain (photo)

VietNamNet Bridge – Midfielder Vincent Kompany, the captain of Man City FC, arrived at Tan Son Nhat Airport, HCM City at 4pm of June 7.

Man lives with giant tumors for 22 years

VietNamNet Bridge – Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City are performing operation to cut off two big tumors, totaling 17 kilos, for Mr. Le Thanh Vu, 25, from the southern province of Kien Giang.

Well-known Hollywood director of photography to come to Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge - David Worth, a famous American director of photography will teach Vietnamese trainees about techniques and directing art of movie masters in the world, on June 22-24 at Idecaf, HCM City.

Deputies worry over state-owned groups

VietNamNet Bridge – At the meeting on social-economic situation on June 7, National Assembly deputies questioned that after Vinashin and Vinalines, which state-owned groups will have the same fate?

Former employee of AP gets eight years in jail

VietNamNet Bridge – Forging signatures of the former chief representative of the AP bureau in Hanoi to appropriate money, Nguyen Thi Van Huong was sentenced 8 years in jail.

Vietnam has culinary culture ambassador

VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Vo Quoc, director of the Vietnamese Gastronomy Company, has been selected as the first Vietnamese Culinary Culture Ambassador.

Demand for Apple's iPad 2 remains strong: survey

Demand for Apple's iPad 2 seemed to remain strong in the United States after the company launched a new version of its tablet computer, according to new survey results released on Thursday.

Director David Worth to lecture in VN

VietNamNet Bridge – Acclaimed Hollywood Director of Photography David Worth has accepted the Wisdom House‘s invitation to lecture for Vietnamese students in Ho Chi Minh City from June 22-24.

Nguyen Nhat Anh’s story taught at Russian universities

VietNamNet Bridge – “Co Gai Den Tu Hom Qua” (Girl from Yesterday), a novel by Vietnamese writer Nguyen Nhat Anh, has been added to the curriculum of all Vietnamese language faculties at Russian universities.

Vietnam shares experience in job creation

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s primary concern is always job creation, said Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Mau Diep at the 101st International Labour Conference in Switzerland on June 7.

MOF re-affirms the leading role of SOEs

VietNamNet Bridge – While economists have called on changing the point of view that state owned enterprises (SOEs) play the leading role in the national economy, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) still keeps the outlook.

Police to help collect health insurance debts

VietNamNet Bridge – Police will be clamping down on social and health insurance dodgers to minimise the increasing amount of debt.