The severe form of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) was the cause of illnesses and deaths of 54 Cambodian children since April, concluded the findings of a joint investigation on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Only the passion for the job can retain the officers and keep them working at the zoo. Everyone here understands well that making friends with beasts is a very dangerous career.

In order to arrange enough money for their children to attend the university entrance exams, a lot of parents have to sell all buffalos, cows, pigs and rice.

VietNamNet Bridge – With 12 million people using social networks, or 60 percent of Internet users in Vietnam, developing apps on social networks has become a good job.

EVN dissolves hydroelectric affiliates; More import competition looms; Non-bank lenders face tax; Businesses ignore risk management; Chinese man buys huge land plots in Binh Thuan; Ironing out economic snags in Mekong Delta

Lao performers to celebrate friendship with VN; Old cannon found on riverbed; Artist explores his own ‘Mental Places'; Japanese beat-maker presents distinctive sound

A US$16.5 million contract on supplying materials and equipment to the Pleiku-Phu Lam 500kV power line was signed in Hanoi on July 11 by the National Power Transmission Corporation (NPT) and the US General Electric Digital Energy (GE).

Hanoi, Paris boost comprehensive friendship; Northwest urged to develop technology; Drifting Vietnamese ship towed to port; Deputy PM highlights religious freedom

VietNamNet Bridge – Twelve men's teams will participate in the Return to Truong Son cycling tour from July 15-20.

VietNamNet Bridge – A school-based violence prevention project was launched in central Da Nang City on Monday by the Spanish NGO Paz y Desarrollo (PyD) and the central city's Department of Education and Training.

The Vietnamese Health Ministry’s Preventive Health Department has urged authorities in all localities bordering Cambodia to strengthen their health quarantine systems to prevent penetration of the unidentified disease

VietNamNet Bridge – The first working session of Vietnam’s national nuclear safety council kicked off on July 11 in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is likely to achieve this year's target of sending 90,000 guest workers abroad despite the continuing global economic turbulence, a labour official said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Some of Ha Noi's poorer students will be eligible for tuition fee exemptions from the coming school year.

The 19th International AIDS Conference is set to be held in Washington D.C. on July 22-27, the first time in 22 years the United States will host the conference again.

VietNamNet Bridge – Making cities more efficient, eco-friendly and liveable was discussed by 200 Government officials, lawmakers, business leaders and city planners on Tuesday at a workshop in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi People’s Court yesterday, July 11, opened a trial for two Chinese men, Zhong Tielin and Yang Faqing, who last year sold fake gold antiques and gold ingots to several people, including a lawyer.

VietNamNet Bridge – After six months of treatment at the Hue Central Hospital in the ancient capital city of Hue, a Can Tho woman who lost her kidneys in an operation, was transplanted with a new kidney.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of thousands of square meters of land at convenient positions in Hanoi are not used or become football grounds, parking lots or scrap grounds.

More and more one stop shops have been set up in big cities since the day the first shop of this kind appeared on the market one year ago.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Idol 2012's "pre-casting round" has only passed through four cities, but it has already attracted more than 15,000 registrations, and is set to break the 2010 record of 20,000 registrations.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thanh Ngung set a new national record in the men's 10,000m walk at the 19th HCM City International Track and Field Championships – Viet Nam Open 2012 yesterday, July 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nobuyo Tajawa and her fellow Japanese expats living in the central city of Hoi An took about two hours to prepare their nagashi soumen (Japanese-style noodle) party on Hoang Van Thu Street yesterday, July 11.

Vietnamese-origin Julia Ho, 22, from San Francisco, California and Tuan Anh Pham, 28, from Germany have recently become Miss and Mr. Vietnam Continents, respectively, at the final night of the second annual beauty pageant held in the US on July 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the first half of 2012, six accidents happened on Thang Long Bridge, killing seven people. With 32 broken sites, maximal speed will be restricted at 40km per hour.