Although the Minister of Planning and Investment affirmed to “not use budget capital to buy bad debts of banks,” many deputies wondered where does VND100 trillion ($5 billion) come from to buy bad debts, at the proposal of the central bank.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Ranh Gioi Trang Den” (White-Black Boundary) will be released in four Southeast Asian countries on July 6 to become the first Vietnamese movie that reaches out the regional market.

Experts from the Vietnam Archaeology Institute and the Museum of Tuyen Quang Province collected a fossil tooth of an elephant in May 2012, during an archaeological survey in Son Duong district in the northern province of Tuyen Quang.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi police on June 13 announced to discover a private establishment that sold food processed from dead pork.

The Group of 20 should take coordinated actions to revive economic growth prospects worldwide on a sustainable basis as European debt crisis is deteriorating, the Institute of international Finance (IIF) urged here Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang's Hoang Quy Phuoc won a silver medal at the ongoing Southeast Asian (SEA) Swimming Championships in Singapore yesterday, June 14.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Minister of Public Security, Tran Dai Quang, was challenged, for the first time, on an increase in foreign-related crime, at a hearing at the National Assembly on June 14.

The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia announced Thursday that it plans to cut 3,700 jobs in Finland and up to 10,000 positions worldwide by the end of 2013 to save costs.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) has asked radio and television broadcasters to not allow artists who have been fined for wearing scanty clothes to appear on their shows.

In the morning of June 14, Minister of Industry and Trade, Vu Huy Hoang faced a Q&A session with NA deputies which mainly focused on the monopolies in the electricity and petroleum sectors.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Minh Quang was bombarded with questions about forced land withdrawal, compensation and land use waste raised by the National Assembly (NA) deputies on Wednesday.

The appearance of three big shareholders at Sacombank exceedingly astonished the bank’s shareholders and the public, who were not informed about the share purchases of the “big guys.”

Vietnam finished in twelfth place with one gold and one bronze medal at the 15th Asian Junior Athletic Championships, which concluded on June 12 after four days of competition in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc today, June 15, affirmed that the economy has overcome difficulties and has started to recover.

The French film, which won eight nominations and The Best Actor award in Cesar Awards 2012, will be screened in Vietnam for the first time in mid June.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is trying to restore the ‘Zeng’ weaving craft of minority groups in its A Luoi mountain district to preserve the traditional craft and generate jobs for locals.

Vietnam has not been named in the latest list of most attractive retail markets according to a recent report from A. T. Kearney, a US-based global management consulting firm.

The number of snub-nosed monkeys, an endangered species, in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang has grown to over 100, said Hoang Van Tue, head of the management board of the Khau Ca Species and Habitat Conservation Centre.

Viral song clip links Vietnam, Euro 2012 histories; Aurora trio to perform free in Ha Noi; Domestic violence victims take to the theater; Brazilian guitar master to perform in Ha Noi

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 100 bears at the Bear Rescue Centre were condemned to almost certain death until Animals Asia Foundation established a Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao national park, the northern province of Vinh Phuc.

Meeting with the big barriers in the EU market, Vietnamese tra export companies tend to head for the US market. However, analysts have warned that this may lead to the overly hot development in the exports to the market.

A suicide car bomb tore through a bus station early Thursday in a suburban area of the Syrian capital Damascus, leaving 14 people injured and a nearby security complex damaged, witnesses and the state-run SANA news agency said.

VietNamNet Bridge – A thousand research works have been published on Vietnamese folk arts and culture by 446 artists, during the first phase of the ‘Publication and Promotion of Vietnamese Ethnic Group Folk Culture and Arts’ project (2008-2012).

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has made great progress in endorsing rights to freedom of belief and religion, according to the political advisor to the European Union Mission to Vietnam, Juan-Jose Almagro Herrador.

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of forged websites and blogs have appeared on Internet with fraudulence purposes, which have discredit many institutions and individuals, thus making the environment become unsafe.