VietNamNet Bridge – Tourists and the general public will be admitted free to many cultural activities in the Old Quarter to promote a festival entitled Traditional Handicraft with Contemporary Arts.

VietNamNet Bridge – Sai Gon Station has announced it would be offering ticket reductions for journeys from HCM City to Nha Trang and Hue between July 9 and August 30.

A total of 54 migrants died during their crossing from Libya to Italy, local media reported on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Over 13,700 violations of forest protection and timber management laws were reported nationwide in the fist six months of the year, 10 per cent fewer than in the same period last year,

Google is close to paying a fine of 22.5 million U.S. dollars to settle charges that it bypassed Apple users' privacy settings to track their online activities, U.S. media reported on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The winner of this year's ASEAN Football Federation Cup will receive a prize of US$200,000, double that of previous years.

Viet Nam is expected to see rapid trade growth in the next 15 years, with its trade expected to almost double by 2026, an HSBC report released yesterday said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nam Hai Van team demolished Van Khoa football club 7-1 in the opener of the futsal (five-a-side football) tournament – the Larue Cup yesterday, July 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese adaptation of the famed Dutch singing talent contest “The Voice” has stepped into its first phase, the blind audition round, over the last weekend and blown a breath of fresh air into the local music industry,

Realizing that the green growth in a sustainable, environment friendly way is the urgent need for all economic sectors, local authorities have been determined to develop green tourism.

VietNamNet Bridge – New rules will be applied at the London Olympics' badminton event which will help players avoid early dismissal from the tournament.

Greece raised 1.625 billion euros (2 billion U.S. dollars) in a short-term bond auction on Tuesday, with its borrowing cost marginally declining compared to a similar auction in June, the country's Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) announced.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed that Vietnam-based Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) and Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Sacombank) both received 'B' ratings with a stable outlook in addition to ‘b’ Viability Ratings (VRs).

The US has seen an increasing number of US groups operating efficiently in Vietnam, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a meeting with the Vietnam-US Business Community in Hanoi on July 10.

The Vietnamese-German Nguyen Kim Mai Thi has won first prize in the 2012 Falling Walls Lab contest at Cologne, Germany for her research work entitled Breaking the Wall of The Human Cell.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Fisheries Association has strongly protested China for illegally seizing Vietnamese fishermen and their boats that were operating off Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago several days ago.

VietNamNet Bridge – An egg has to experience five quarantine times since it leaves the farm to reach the market. Having eggs quarantined just means bringing eggs to vets to pay fees.

VietNamNet Bridge – The VTV-Eximbank International Volleyball Cup 2012 tournament will be held in the northern province of Vinh Phuc from July 14-21.

VietNamNet Bridge – The US Navy Military Sealift Command’s hospital ship USUN Mercy (T-AH 19) anchored at Cua Lo port on July 10 to provide humanitarian and civic assistance through out Nghe An Province as part of the Pacific Partnership 2012.

Partners of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations should continue to assist the association to build an ASEAN Community and strengthen regional links, narrowing the development gap, as well as supporting the bloc . . .

The rate of maternal and child mortality in Viet Nam is rapidly decreasing, Luu Thi Hong, deputy director of the Ministry of Health's Department of Mother-Child Health said yesterday at a conference in Ha Noi to mark World Population Day.

Son mates at national blitz chess tourney; Teen shooters take aim in Ha Noi;  That takes stage in Women's Open tour

Nha Trang welcomes Maritime Safety Agencies Forum; Vatican’s envoy visits Catholics in Long An; VN commits to efforts towards disarmament; Viet Nam-China friendship association welcomes new chair

A hormone with anti-diabetic properties also reduces depression-like symptoms in mice, according to a report published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The proposal to set up a general department in charge of managing and supervising capital at state owned enterprises, which the Ministry of Finance (MOF) has made to the government, has raised controversy.