VietNamNet Bridge – Sean Smith of Dutch team CCN won the fifth stage of the International Cycling Tour to the Northern Delta yesterday, May 23.

Vietnam values ties with Japan; VN highlights achievements at WHO Assembly; Belgium hosts 21st Global Communist Forum

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of one of the biggest banks in Vietnam received 80 million dong a month, while a colleague of his, who managed a smaller bank, got 200 million dong.

VietNamNet Bridge – A newborn baby died on the operating table at a clinic in Hanoi on night of May 22. Hundreds of people sieged the hospital, asking for an investigation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and China held the first round of working-level negotiations on the demarcation of maritime boundaries beyond the mouth of the Tonkin Gulf, in Hanoi on May 21-22.

Though the 2011-2012 academic year would only finish in two weeks, a lot of nursery school students have left the schools since early May to go to writing practice classes. They need to be able to read and write before they enter the first grade.

VietNamNet Bridge – While the “Electronic one-stop shop” had been mentioned in many state’s documents, it had remained unfamiliar to the public until recently.

VietNamNet Bridge – The President of Austria, Heinz Fischer and his wife are scheduled to pay an official visit to Vietnam from May 29-31.

Greece categorically dismissed on Wednesday media reports over contingency planning by eurozone member countries for the possibility of a Greek exit from the euro.

Travel firms, suffering from constant anxiety due to the sharp fall of the number of travelers registering domestic tours, have kicked off a noisy sale promotion campaign summer 2012.

The retail industry is experiencing the gloomiest days with products unsold and merchants leaving the market. Most of the enterprises which got bankrupted in the first four months of the years were retailers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nom Temple in the northern province of Hung Yen is recognized by the Vietnam Record Book Center, as the pagoda with the highest number of ancient earth-made statues in Vietnam.

An American woman fighting a flesh-eating disease caused by group A streptococcus is now able to breathe on her own with the help of an oxygen mask and a tracheostomy, media reports said Tuesday.

Before the case of the little girl in HCM City, there were similar spontaneous combustion cases in Vietnam. However, investigation proved that these cases were not mysterious. Let’s review them with VietNamNet Bridge.

The 32nd Conference of the ASEAN Chiefs of Police (ASEANAPOL) is underway in the Myanmar capital city of Nay Pyi Taw to discuss joint operations against regional crime, the country’s official media said on May 23.

VietNamNet Bridge – Owing to overload, patients and their relatives at the Cardiovascular Hospital in Hanoi have to put up tents on the hospital’s yard.

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American pop princess Katy Perry's has reportedly split with relatively short-term lover Robert Ackroyd.

VietNamNet Bridge – The country has about 3,500 children on average die of drowning every year, with the latest 3 cases happening yesterday in Dak Nong and Phu Yen provinces, the Department for Children Care and Protection has warned.

The global economy has embarked on a fragile recovery, which might be derailed by the crisis hovering over the eurozone, warned the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – After replacing coach Mai Duc Chung at the U22 team, coach Lu Dinh Tuan immediately decided to reject two overseas Vietnamese players – Mac Hong Quan and Nguyen Thanh Giang – from the team.

VietNamNet Bridge – More contracts between farmers and companies in Mekong Delta provinces are being broken, and as a result, more lawsuits are being filed.

The investors, who believed that resort real estate, unlike other property market segments, would never fall into decay, have changed their thoughts and tried to run away from the market.

U.S. investors on Monday signed two memorandums of understanding with Ninh Thuan Province after spending time surveying sites of high tourism potential in the south-central localities.

VietNamNet Bridge – People in Viet Nam have rising concerns about the effects of the environment on their health and well being, a survey released recently by market research firm Cimigo has found.