VietNamNet Bridge – After four years, Vietnamese football fans against “eat and sleep” with Euro 2012. They group up at coffee shops or at their friends’ home to acclaim their favorite teams.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health plans to build more satellite hospitals to curb the overload at major hospitals in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – A male elephant of the Hanoi Zoo, which is popular among Vietnamese children, fell down and died on June 9.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has planned to spend around VND300 billion (US$14.4 million) to connect over 20,000 residents of central Quang Ngai Province's Ly Son Island to electricity.

VietNamNet Bridge – Heavy and passenger vehicles including buses and trucks, won't be given registrations if they don't have black boxes installed, Viet Nam Road Administration director Trinh Ngoc Giao said yesterday, June 10.

Contrary to all predictions, the move by the State Bank of Vietnam to slash the deposit interest rate further--to 9 percent per annum from June 11 has been a good move in the current circumstances.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam came from behind to beat Hong Kong 2-1 in an international friendly match at Mongkok Studium yesterday, June 10, in Hong Kong.

HCM City’s sports bars are gearing up for the Euro 2012 football championship in Ukraine and Poland which kicks off tonight with promotions and special events to lure football-mad customers from home and abroad.

A classical concert to mark Father’s Day will be held at the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Hanoi on June 15.

The top 12 candidates in the final round of the 2012 Sao Mai – Diem Hen (Morning Star – Rendezvous) national singing contest entered the first night of competition at the Hue City Sports centre on June 9.

Fourteen toll booths will be removed under a proposal by the Viet Nam Road Administration in order to avoid overlapping toll collections once the road maintenance fund is established in 2013.

The stock market cheered a week of rises despite a gloomy start on Monday.

‘When the streets aren’t too busy, I can ride around and look at the landscape – enjoy the colours of the trees, the flowers, the sky – then try to copy these colours in my paintings’, says lacquer artist Chien.

Pham Phuoc Hung has won a gold medal in the men’s parallel bars event of the Challengers Cup 2012 International Gymnastics Tournament in Belgium.   

The top 12 selected winners from across the country took part in the final round of ‘Sao Mai Diem Hen 2012’ (Morning Star Rendezvous) singing contest in Hue City on June 9.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Science and Technology will hold a one-month investigation into national science and technology development from July 1.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese-made stop-motion video that won the top award at the worldwide United Nations PLURAL+ Video Festival will be aired on Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV).

VietNamNet Bridge – Driving a motorbike through a railway without careful observation, a man was hit by a train and pulled for more than 10 meters.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will present Georges Bizet’s classic Spanish love story Carmen at the HCMC Opera House at 8 p.m. today, June 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – About 10 million new mobile phone SIMs are activated each year but only 1-2 million are legally registered, prompting a clampdown by the Government.

Vietnamese garments cannot compete with cheap Chinese products on the home market. Meanwhile, garment exporters are thirsty for orders.

VietNamNet Bridge – The French owner of King Ham Nghi's painting Chieu ta (Declin du Jour) wants to exhibit it in Viet Nam on the occasion of the sovereign's 70th death anniversary.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first stage of a new rubbish treatment plant has been completed at the Khanh Son dump, the biggest tip in central Da Nang City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 100 sites in the southernmost province of Ca Mau are at risk of being severely eroded during this year's storm season, according to the province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The organisers of ‘National Tourism Year 2012’ have announced that a number of cultural activities will take place during the months of June, July and August.