Quang Ninh takes the lead for school violence: survey

VietNamNet Bridge – According to the Ministry of Education and Training’s statistics, the northern port city of Quang Ninh is at the top for the number of students involved in violence, followed by the southern province of Tay Ninh.

The best player of Premier League to come to Vietnam next week

VietNamNet Bridge – Before the EURO 2012 starts, Vietnamese football fans will have a chance to see the best player of the British Premier League 2012, Vincent Kompany, on June 7-9.

Actor opens kung fu school

Vietnamese-American movie actor Johnny Nguyen, star of such blockbuster action movies as Dong Mau Anh Hung and Bay Rong, recently opened a martial arts school in HCM City, aiming to find and nurture young kung fu artists.

Badminton's Minh unseeded for Indonesia Open in June

VietNamNet Bridge – Falling outside the world top ten badminton players, Viet Nam's top player Nguyen Tien Minh will not be seeded in the men's singles event at the Djarum Indonesia Open.

Obama calls Romney amid growing campaign chaos

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday congratulated Mitt Romney for clinching the Republican presidential nomination, while their campaign teams attack each other in an increasingly relentless manner.

Deputies back higher fines for misleading advertising

VietNamNet Bridge – A majority of National Assembly deputies consented to the changes in the draft law on advertising at the third session of the 13th National Assembly yesterday, May 30.

Vietnam supports conflict-free ASEAN initiative

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has shown its support for Cambodia ’s initiative to build a conflict-free ASEAN region and a statement on plans to integrate ASEAN’s security.

SBV hurries banks to slash interest rates, but banks keep going slowly

VietNamNet Bridge – While the central bank makes every effort to ease the lending interest rates as soon as possible to rescue the enterprises thirsty for capital, commercial banks still remain unhurried.

Supermodel contestants in pair

Posing for photographs is one of the practical tests for singles and duos in the final stage of Vietnam Supermodel 2012.  

Law enforcement’s first female special forces unit

Think of the country’s newest police trainees as flowers – or as coach Vu Van Hung jokes, “cactus flowers.” In other words, the 32 prospective graduates are beautiful but deadly, having trained to be the first women

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Viet Nam, African countries to expand co-operation: PM; Deputy PM receives Int'l Finance Corporation's regional head; Leader arrives for economic forum in BKK

Lesbian and gay street children need protecting

VietNamNet Bridge – Most interviewed lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) street children are engaged in the sex trade and rely on only themselves for protection against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

China, Vietnam negotiate cooperation at sea

VietNamNet Bridge – Working teams from Vietnam and China conducted the first round of negotiations on cooperation in less sensitive fields at sea, in Beijing, from May 29-30.

Taxi driver returns missing property worth nearly $50,000

VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Nguyen Van Dung, a poor taxi driver from Gio Linh District of Quang Tri province, has returned missing property worth nearly VND1 billion (US$50,000), to its holder.

Vietnam not yet ready for IPv6

Many countries in the world have been considering implementing the next generation of Internet Protocol IPv6. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, enterprises are still not aware of the necessity and importance of using new Internet addresses.

Quang Nam’s hydropower plants drive local residents from their land

VietNamNet Bridge – Fourteen hydropower plant projects would be developed in Dong Giang, a very small district of Quang Nam province, which have put local residents in big distress.

Vietnam condemns civilian killing in Syria

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam calls on all parties concerned in Syria to quickly conduct a full investigation on last week’s horrific massacre.

Famous French guitarist returns to Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – Thibault Cauvin, a talented French guitarist, will have a solo performance in Ho Chi Minh City on June 5 and in Hanoi on June 7 during his third visit to Vietnam.

Vietnam turns into the consumer of the world’s inventories?

While domestically made products have been piling up in enterprises’ stocks, imports still have been selling well in the domestic market.

With poor laboratories, Vietnamese students weak at practice

VietNamNet Bridge – Seventeen out of the 85 non-state high schools in HCM City still do not have laboratories as required. Meanwhile, state owned schools’ teachers feel perplexed when using the laboratory equipments and teaching aids provided.

Medical waste plan proposed

VietNamNet Bridge – The Health Ministry has devised a plan to collect all medical waste every day, with 70 per cent of solid waste to be treated by 2015, according to a source from the Health Environment Management Department.

Crying coconut tree in Thanh Hoa

VietNamNet Bridge – The home of Mr. Mai Van Canh, 54, in the central province of Thanh Hoa, has become a destination of curious people for the last three weeks, since his coconut tree began ‘crying.’

Kapersky discovers IT-virus designed for Middle East

Kapersky Lab, a Russian producer of Anti-virus software, said Tuesday it discovered a malicious program named "Flame" that is deliberately used as a cyber weapon against entities in the Middle East.

The pillar of Vietnamese industries gets shaky

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of mechanical engineering enterprises have shut down or announced bankruptcy so far this year.

Two dead in Seattle shooting

Two people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning at a coffee shop in the U.S. city of Seattle, local police said.