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VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has been ranked 34th among 158 countries in the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2012, four places up against 2011.

Central Khanh Hoa Province authorities have urged the management board of a local economic zone to accelerate the revocation of the industrial waste processing plant of a shipyard.

The UK has completed major facilities to ensure that the London 2012 Summer Olympics will become a unique social, cultural and sporting event for international friends. 

The Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) has provided additional 55 scholarships for Vietnamese nationals to develop their careers at 34 leading US universities in the 2012-2013 academic year.   

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 120 Vietnamese children with genital deformities will receive free treatment under scheme run by the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fifteen lithographs of Vu Cao Dam's paintings from an overseas Vietnamese's collection will be exhibited for the first time in Asia.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Ambassador to Belgium Pham Sanh Chau and other outstanding individuals have received the Knight of Tournai title for their active contribution to promoting the city’s image. 

The U.S. Department of Defense on Wednesday announced the United States, South Korea and Japan will conduct a two-day, trilateral naval exercise on June 21-22 in the waters south of the Korean peninsula.

At a time when the international community is still unable to reach a consensus to bring about a favorable solution to the stand-off in Syria, the Syrian government seems to have shelved all outside suggestions and chosen its own way:

The fledgling merchandise trading floors in Vietnam, which have been operating for two or three years, have been very gloomy with sporadic investors who join the floors just to listen to the news.

Vietnam, the country which has been proud of the great economic achievements it gained in the last 26 years, has been warned about the rising social and environmental challenges, called the “natural resource curse.”

VietNamNet Bridge – Passengers on a coach running from Da nang to Quy Nhon got panicked when tens of snakes crawled through their feet.

Website developer Mat Bao has been accredited by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to be Viet Nam's first international domain name registrar.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's Party, State and people always attached importance to maintaining and developing traditional friendly relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

VietNamNet Bridge – Saving accountancy software was considered an impossible mission. However, things have become quite different.

VietNamNet Bridge – Senior ASEAN officials began their 9th meeting on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication in the central city of Da Nang on June 13.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Nguyen Minh Quang, was the first cabinet member to respond to National Assembly (NA) deputies' questions about land management and the environment on June 13.

Teachers, students and legal officers have called on the Ministry of Education and Training to reward the student who filmed the wrongdoings at Doi Ngo School instead of imposing punishment.

The upcoming European Council summit meeting would focus on building blocks for the future of economic and monetary union, said Jose Manuel Barroso, President of European Commission on Wednesday.

A number of China-based travel firms that bring Chinese tourists to Vietnam via the Huu Nghi border gate in Lang Son are forcing local partners to pull down prices.

More than 4,500 violations of intellectual property rights worth tens of billions of Vietnamese dong were discovered in the past five years and nearly VND20 billion in fines has been collected.

Vietnam’s IDR (issuer default rating) still has not been significantly improved over the last five years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Colonel Ho Sy Tien, acting head of the Investigative Police Agency on Social Order, Ministry of Public Security, said that it will be easier to control prostitution if it is recognized as a job, ruled by special regulations.

The banks in the Unites States would be required to improve capital cushion against unexpected losses as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, along with other two agencies, approved on Tuesday to seek comment on new capital rules.