The hydropower plants Song Tranh 2, Song Con, A Vuong and Dak Mi 4 are being asked to boost water discharge into the downstream to save the drought-hit rice growing areas.

A passenger train rammed into a stationary freight train and burst into flames before dawn Tuesday, killing more than 20 people and injuring more than 35 others in southern India.

The Italian embassy in Vietnam on May 21 introduced ‘Gaia Blues’, a graphic novel by Italian comic writer Daniele Bonomo, at the Trung Nguyen Creation Rendezvous, 36 Dien Bien Phu Street in Hanoi, as part of the Italy-Vietnam Programme 2012.

Eighty percent of Asian countries have supported Vietnam’s bid to host the 2019 Asian Games, Hoang Vinh Giang, General Secretary of the Vietnam Olympic Committee quoted the President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) as saying.  

Vietnam has a chance to receive a wildcard to join the coming Summer Olympics in London, announced the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on May 20.

The Ministry of Public Security has announced the results of initial investigations on the case of the Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines).

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany is scheduled to visit Ho Chi Minh City between June 7 and 9 with the Premier League trophy of the 2011 – 2012 season following an invitation by Eximbank.

VietNamNet Bridge – Im Taeyeon of South Korea won the fourth stage of International Cycling in the Northern Delta Tournament while Trinh Duc Tam of Ha Noi retained the overall yellow jersey yesterday, May 22.

PM welcomes Lao official; Lao premier receives visit from scientific delegation ; UK defence delegation visits Vietnam; Vice President hails bilateral ties with Japan; US embassy joins battle against wildlife trade

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh has urged Asia-Pacific nations to prevent protectionism and share experiences in avoiding the middle-income trap.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO) jointly held a press briefing in response to World No Tobacco Day 2012, themed “tobacco industry interference,” in Hanoi on May 22.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first congress of the Vietnam Organic Agriculture Association (VOA) was held in Hanoi on May 22, electing a 19-member executive board for the 2012-2017 period.

Langurs have been hunted everywhere in Vietnam by the people, who believe that langur meat is nutritious and can cure many kinds of diseases.

Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 25th ASEAN-US dialogue in Manila, the Philippines, on May 21-22.

VietNamNet Bridge – Both Vietnam and India need to take advantage of their strengths to boost all-round cooperation and bring their friendship and strategic partnership to a higher level.

It is 9.45p.m. A hot summer night. There is no empty table left at the Beo Beer Restaurant on Ha Noi's Thai Thinh Street. Fourteen-year-old Nguyen Van Dat, an employee of the restaurant is breaking his back to push a customer's motorbike,

VietNamNet Bridge - The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on May 22 held a ceremony to receive a certificate recognizing Tram Chim National Park as a Ramsar site of wetlands of international importance.

Around 20 teams with 40 car racers from Vietnam and Laos will take part in the first off-road racing championships, the “Ha Long Challenge 2012”, to be held in the northern province of Quang Ninh on June 2-3.  

U.S. private spaceflight company SpaceX launched an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, initiating the first flight of a commercial spacecraft to the orbiting outpost.

Cyber Agent Ventures, a subsidiary of Japanese CyberAgent is seeking potential candidates for its plan to pour investment capital into Vietnam to build up a second VinaGame in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The rapid-fire pieces of news about the big debts incurred by Hoang Anh Gia Lai and the slow sale of its real estate products have raised doubts about the health of the conglomerate.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan warned on Monday that squeezed funds and rise of chronic non-communicable disease were "two danger zones" for the world public health development.

VietNamNet Bridge – The common characteristic of all the services is that they do not require big investment capital, but they still can bring fat profit.

A lot of study consultancy firms only care about parents’ financial capability, while they do not care about students’ learning aptitude and foreign language skills.

Vietnam now has the great opportunity of earning billions of dollars a year more from exports thanks to the value added tax (VAT) immunity policy applied to the foreigners and overseas Vietnamese passing through the country's two biggest airports.