Hanoi CPI up 0.16 percent in May; Pepper exports to see substantial growth; Deposit interest rates may fall to 9% by year's end; Economic crisis hits Q2 export orders; Rule to limit foreign currency loans

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly a week after returning home from an one-month treatment trip in Taiwan, Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Mai in Hoi An town, Quang Nam city was still very happy with her new face and family union.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday expressed his support for Greece to remain in the euro zone, saying world leaders have "indicated their desire to see Greece in the euro zone."

Police from the Ministry of Public Security today released a special wanted notice for Duong Chi Dung, head of Vietnam Maritime Administration, who has not been found since the afternoon of May 17 when his first wanted notice was issued.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Record Book Centre (Vietkings) has announced the recognition of 10 Vietnamese records for Asian Records 2012 by the Asian Record Council.

VietNamNet Bridge – Recent deadly road accidents involving unskilled drivers have driven relevant agencies to improve training and examinations for driving licences.

Exhibition on Vietnam’s festivals opens in France; VUFO receives Ho Chi Minh memorabilia from India; Student orchestra offers free court music show

VietNamNet Bridge – A calligraphy exhibition featuring Nhat Ky Trong Tu (Diary in Prison) poetry by President Ho Chi Minh opened its doors to the public in Ha Noi yesterday, May 21.

VietNamNet Bridge – After nearly one week of making an investigation at the house of the HCM City’s girl who is capable of making fires, scientists from the HCM City-based Hong Bang University did not realize any abnormal thing.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 3rd annual Belgian-Vietnamese Comic Festival will take place in Hanoi from June 1 to 10 on the occasion of International Children's Day.

Dominated by three telecom giants, Viettel, VinaPhone and MobiFone, the Vietnamese mobile market had over 116 million subscriptions at the end of 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's men's chess team have won a gold medal in the blitz event at the ongoing Asian Team Chess Championships in China.

Quang Binh takes soft drinks from shelves; Hanoi CPI up 0.16 percent in May; Flooding to appear in northern region; Vietnamese people association opens office in RoK

A group of acrobatic primates living, and swinging from tree branches, in Vietnam are not faring so well, with three of the six species inching closer to extinction, finds a new report, released on May 21, on these primates called crested gibbons.

The People's Committee of HCM City has asked the Prime Minister to instruct the Ministry of Transport to revoke licences that allow the Hiep Phuoc Maritime and Investment Joint-Stock Company to dredge river beds

VietNamNet Bridge – An artist hailing from the northern province of Nam Dinh evokes beauty, nostalgia and a sense of sadness for disappearing scenes and traditions in an exhibition now open in HCM City.

Private spaceflight company SpaceX will try to launch its Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, U.S. space agency NASA announced Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign invested sea port developers have got bogged down in a competition of reducing loading and unloading fees to scramble for clients, thus facing the risks of incurring heavy losses.

VietNamNet would like to introduce a series of articles about the presidential election in the US, by G. Calvin Mackenzie, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of Government at Colby College  and currently a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – When asked what they are taught in the career guidance curriculum, most of 10th graders kept… quiet. No answer could be given by 11th and 12th graders as well.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism has proposed to the government a new decree under which scantily-clad stage entertainers could be banned from performance for a period of between three and six months.

VietNamNet Bridge – The warning about the heavy price people would have to pay for the rapid industrial production development was given many years ago. However, no improvement in the living environment has been made so far.

VietNamNet Bridge – Lex Nederlof of the Netherland's CCN team won the third stage of the International Cycling to the Northern Delta Tournament yesterday, May 21.

The HCM City government has approved of the drug addiction treatment plan using Methadone with around VND80 billion to be set aside to treat 14,000 drug addicts in the 2012-2015 period.

President bids farewell to Hungarian Ambassador; VUFO receives Ho Chi Minh memorabilia from India delegation; Viet Nam, Ukraine trade unions discuss ways to cement ties