The Commission for Information and Training under the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee held a ceremony in Vientiane on May 10 to launch a collection of books on the history of Vietnam and Laos’ special relationship

The flame for the London 2012 Olympic Games was lit on Thursday in a ritual ceremony held at Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games more than 2,000 years ago.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomes the United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All Initiative and is working hard to attend the upcoming Rio+20 Conference on sustainable development in Brazil.

VietNamNet Bridge - Sandra Therese Fagerberg, 35, and Thomas Harald Gronvoll, 32, from Sweden, who share traveling as a hobby, chose Nha Trang beach to organize their wedding.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Embassy in the US, in coordination with the Southeast Asia Roundtable Forum, held the second Vietnam Forum on the US-ASEAN relationship, in Washington DC on May 10.

Russian tour operators size up Viet Nam market; Italian cruise ship makes five-day stop in Viet Nam; Saigontourist launches tours to paramotor race in Da Nang

VietNamNet Bridge – Commercial banks now have capital in excess, while businesses have been in deadly thirst for capital. However, banks still have not disbursed money.

Though the Vietnamese government has affirmed that its public debt is within a safe area, there are some signs showing the increasing “heat” of public debt in qualitative and quantitative analysis, with some notable features as follow.

National football book published; Japanese specialists revive Vietnamese silk paintings; Bubble magician returns for performance and charity activities

The U.S. economy is expected to grow at an annual rate of 2 percent in 2012 and 2013, while in Southern California job growth will be more robust at a pace of 1.5 percent, according to an economic forecast.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked relevant ministries, agencies and localities to speed up preparations for activities to celebrate the two countries’ Friendship Year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors have warned of an early presence of meningitis and encephalitis in children this summer as the number of children hospitalised appears to be rising,

Viet Nam can maintain economic growth of 5.8 per cent and reduce inflation to 9.8 per cent this year, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP).

A lot of hotels in HCM City, including the bustling ones in the central area of the city, complain that they have few customers these days.

Vietnamese family ransoms kidnapped daughter from Cambodia; International jewellery sparkles in HCM City; Households at risk to be relocated; Science conference opens in Ha Noi

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Cinema Agency has banned “Bay Cap 3”, a product by Vietnamese American director Le Van Kiet, from local screens.

VietNamNet Bridge – An 83-year-old woman climbed up an over-20m areca tree to pluck betel-nuts for chewing, but she fell down and died.

Paper and wood processing enterprises have voiced their concern about the wood chip exports in large quantity recently, warning that the massive exports would lead to the material shortage to domestic industries.

The Social Insurance Agency of Binh Duong Province has discovered nearly 100,000 labourers resigned to get unemployment insurance benefits.   

Transparency in collecting the road maintenance fee must be ensured before authorities start the collection scheduled for January 1 next year, National Assembly deputies and transporters said at a seminar in HCMC on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has ordered inspections on formaldehyde content in fresh fruit and vegetables.

VietNamNet Bridge – A collection of abstract paintings by artist Vinh Phoi called Khong Gian va Tiet Dieu II (Space and Rhythm II) is on display at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

HCM City's first Gold-rated building for energy efficiency is almost ready and will be ready for occupation by August.

Relevant authorities and businesses gathered in the capital on Wednesday to prepare a pilot value-added tax (VAT) refund scheme for foreigners and overseas Vietnamese passing through the country's two biggest airports in July.

Debt-stricken Binh An Seafood Co, or Bianfishco, yesterday officially restarted operations at its catfish processing and exporting plant in Can Tho-based Tra Noc Industrial Park.