VietNamNet Bridge – Most interviewed lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) street children are engaged in the sex trade and rely on only themselves for protection against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

VietNamNet Bridge – Working teams from Vietnam and China conducted the first round of negotiations on cooperation in less sensitive fields at sea, in Beijing, from May 29-30.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Nguyen Van Dung, a poor taxi driver from Gio Linh District of Quang Tri province, has returned missing property worth nearly VND1 billion (US$50,000), to its holder.

Many countries in the world have been considering implementing the next generation of Internet Protocol IPv6. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, enterprises are still not aware of the necessity and importance of using new Internet addresses.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fourteen hydropower plant projects would be developed in Dong Giang, a very small district of Quang Nam province, which have put local residents in big distress.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam calls on all parties concerned in Syria to quickly conduct a full investigation on last week’s horrific massacre.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thibault Cauvin, a talented French guitarist, will have a solo performance in Ho Chi Minh City on June 5 and in Hanoi on June 7 during his third visit to Vietnam.

While domestically made products have been piling up in enterprises’ stocks, imports still have been selling well in the domestic market.

VietNamNet Bridge – Seventeen out of the 85 non-state high schools in HCM City still do not have laboratories as required. Meanwhile, state owned schools’ teachers feel perplexed when using the laboratory equipments and teaching aids provided.

VietNamNet Bridge – The home of Mr. Mai Van Canh, 54, in the central province of Thanh Hoa, has become a destination of curious people for the last three weeks, since his coconut tree began ‘crying.’

VietNamNet Bridge – The Health Ministry has devised a plan to collect all medical waste every day, with 70 per cent of solid waste to be treated by 2015, according to a source from the Health Environment Management Department.

Kapersky Lab, a Russian producer of Anti-virus software, said Tuesday it discovered a malicious program named "Flame" that is deliberately used as a cyber weapon against entities in the Middle East.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of mechanical engineering enterprises have shut down or announced bankruptcy so far this year.

Two people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning at a coffee shop in the U.S. city of Seattle, local police said.

Hanoi government’s decision to close all parking lots in 262 streets and ban vehicles from parking in 9 inner districts has been praised to be a solution to curb congestion in the city. However, parking on pavements and roads has returned.

International donors and the private sector in Vietnam will scrutinize the restructuring of State-owned enterprises as the key topic of discussion between them and the Government at the Vietnam Business Forum (VBF).

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda failed to persuade the ruling Democratic Party heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa to support the tax raising policy in the meeting held Wednesday morning.

VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 12 people in Phu Dang hamlet in the southern province of Ben Tre were stunned when they knew that they contracted HIV, from unknown source.

VietNamNet Bridge – A delegation from Russian-based Far East Federal University (FEFU) will pay a working visit to Vietnam from May 28 to June 8 including a meeting with Bui Van Ga, deputy minister of Education and Training.

VietNamNet Bridge – People on Cu Lao Cham Islet in Hoi An City, Quang Nam province, are living in an ‘unsafe’ situation because their houses are threatened by a troop of hundreds of monkeys.

Greek citizens are expected to lose some 55 percent of their current income per capita and recession could surpass 22 percent, if Greece leaves the euro zone, according to a survey of the National Bank of Greece released on Tuesday in Athens.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is drafting to set up a system offering its citizens a single identification number for civil status registry for better management.

Instead of trying to persuade consumers that their instant noodle products are delicious, nutritious and cheap, manufacturers nowadays try to arouse consumers’ compassion or threaten consumers.

VietNamNet Bridge – According to legends, udumbara is the flower in heaven, which blossoms each 3,000 years. It is considered as the special flower of Buddhism.

Capital seizes 47 violating cabs; Poor driver returns missing property worth $48k; Vietnamese AO victims to receive check-up in Korea; HCMC to build 4 large flyovers to ease congestion