After the first round polling day smoothly passed, French voters have chosen, among 10 candidates, Socialist Francois Hollande and incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy, to face off in the decisive second round presidential election

Fire tears through Tan Loc market; Ex-military delegations receive hero title; New border representative office in Lao Cai opened; Vietnam nabs Cambodian carrying 5.2 kg of drugs

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has reaffirmed his country’s strong support for Vietnam’s socio-economic development, committing to continuing the provision of official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam,

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi police are investigating the case in which a young man shot a sex video clip featuring himself and his girlfriend, a high-school student, and then gave the clip to another girlfriend to diffuse at her school.

VietNamNet Bridge – Dang Quan and Ngoc Bao continued proving their dancing talent in the first final show of the Vietnam’s Got Talent 2012 on the evening of April 22.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fishermen in Hoang Hoa district of the central province of Thanh Hoa netted a dolphin on April 21. The rare animal, which is named in the Vietnam Red Book, was released back to the sea after that.

VietNamNet Bridge – At 4pm on April 20, while doing some site clearance for a water supply project in Ky Anh district in the central province of Ha Tinh, sappers of the Engineer Brigade 414 unveiled a bomb of more than 500kg.

CAMA Music Festival 6 to take place in Hanoi; Classical ‘Tuong’ form of theatre struggles to survive; Northwestern colours to be highlighted in Hanoi; Photo exhibition portrays solidarity; HCM City notary wins singing contest

VietNamNet Bridge – Three top contenders for national football head coach have differing views about whether the coach should be allowed to work for two teams at the same time.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 3,500 workers from 35 garment factories in HCM City and the southern provinces of Binh Duong and Dong Nai took part in a Fun Run for Safety yesterday, April 22.

Pop singer Tung Duong was named "Singer of the Year 2011" at the seventh Cong Hien (Devotion) Music Awards at HCM City Television Studios (HTV) last night.

More than 4,500 houses and offices had their roofs torn off or sustained other damage when whirlwinds and hailstorms caused by a late cold spell hit northern mountain provinces on April 20.

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are entering into negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with Vietnam, according to Viktor Khristenko, head of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC).

The Vietnam Professional Football last weekend shocked the football industry by announcing that it has acquired the TV rights from digital AVG, who received the rights in a controversial deal that ignited a four-month long TV rights battle.

VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition of more than 100 photographs of the Anti-American war, taken by photojournalists who worked for the Liberation News Agency (LNA) between 1965 and 1975, is open at the Reunification Palace in HCM City

VietNamNet Bridge – Wild elephants could disappear from Viet Nam's Central Highlands permanently as deforestation has destroyed their habitat and source of food needed for survival.

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has proposed to allow state owned enterprises (SOEs) to sell the land plots and houses they do not use to get money for production and investment.

Can Tho hosted an online dialogue on the Government website yesterday to review the implementation of the Politburo's Resolution 21 on socio-economic development and security defence of the Mekong Delta River

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Van Dong of Can Tho won the eighth stage of the HCM City Television Cycling Cup yesterday, April 22, while Nguyen Mai Hung from Sai Gon Plant Protection retained the yellow jersey.

Dak Lak and Dak Nong provinces have leased forest land to enterprises to grow rubber trees. However, while the rubber projects still cannot bring profits, the green forests have been seriously devastated.

Vietnamese information technology (IT) firms which have just returned from CeBIT 2012, an IT trade fair, keep optimistic about their opportunities in the future.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam was developing green architecture to curb environmental pollution and offer sustainable living conditions, said Nguyen Tan Van, chairman of the Viet Nam Association of Architects (VAA),

The spokesman of the advance team of UN observers said the group visited two central regions and established contacts with all parties there on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government will inject VND1.7 trillion (US$80 million) into the national new rural-area programme in 2012, according to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat.

VietNamNet Bridge – A speeding coach in the rain--ran straight into a roadside coffee shop in Phu Giao district of the southern province of Binh Duong, and overturned--killing one and injuring 13 people.