Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the leaders of eight provinces to conduct self-criticism for submitting inaccurate natural disaster and disease loss reports, offering late support to victims and using financial assistance incorrectly.

A programme of song, dance and comedy will be broadcast live from the Au Co Theatre in Ha Noi on Viet Nam Television's VTV 3 on March 11 to bring attention to the Goverment's Traffic Safety Year 2012 community awareness campaign.

HCM City says motorbike racing ‘terrifying'; Hard times for female workers; Vietnam arrests man for selling sex toys; Foreigners scam local man

Off to the fireworks competition; Lao carrier to fly to central VN; Northern mountain hiking tour; Korean island pays for tours; Tour to HCM City eco-tourism park

The unsatisfactory result of the 2011 year-end sale season discouraged electronics distributors. Then they put high hopes on the Tet sale season, and once more felt back into despair. And they continue waiting for new opportunities.

A million dollar wedding last Wednesday and Thursday was organized by a magnate for her son, and featured famous singers. The event has attracted the attention of local people in the central province of Ha Tinh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three modern ships were given to some naval units on March 1 to serve training activities and to patrol and defend Vietnam’s waters, islands and continental shelf.

VietNamNet Bridge – Officials at Cat Tien National Park in Dong Nai Province, and scientists at the Tay Nguyen Institute of Biology, last Thursday successfully reconstructed the skeleton of a one-horned Javan rhino,

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People’s Council on March 1 approved new measures to curb motorcycle races in the city, which will take effect as of March 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – People’s Artist Tran Binh, director of the Central Song and Dance Theatre, has asked the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s permission to open a copyright protection center, the second of its kind in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Some agencies under the National Assembly and the government have said that the central city of Danang’s restrictions on immigration is illegal.

VietNamNet Bridge – A small village in central Thanh Hoa Province's Thieu Hoa District has benefited from an unusually high number of remittances sent by locals who have found work in other localities and abroad.

VietNamNet Bridge – The purpose of the wildlife rescue is to give treatment, then restore their wild instincts and rehabilitate them. However, it is now difficult to find safe places for them.

The authorities said that the death toll from an enormous storm system that struck the U.S. Midwest and moved east reached 12 late on Wednesday, according to local media.

"Viet Nam remains strong on its commitments to ensure the full enjoyment of human rights for its people," said Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh on Wednesday at the current 19th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's national under-19 football team came from behind to beat hosts Brunei 2-1 at the Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy on Wednesday.

The tourism promotion season begins. Travel firms now gear up to organize promotion campaigns to attract more foreign travelers to Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Cohabiting” has become the familiar concept to many students nowadays. Therefore, the existence of a “pregnant student hamlet” in the university village does not surprise anyone.

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung and Chilean Senate President Guido Girardin Lavin singed a co-operation agreement in Hanoi on March 1.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Ultrabook manufacturers once hoped that their products would create a new trend for the post-PC era. However, to date, it remains ineffective testing dose in the Vietnamese market

 Foreign Minister receives Lao delegation; Leading VN-Laos defence officials meet in Hanoi; Bhutani PM’s Special Envoy visits Vietnam; Italian Foreign Minister visits Hanoi for talks

VietNamNet Bridge – Chief Operating Officer of the European External Action Service (EEAS) David O’Sullivan is on a working visit to Vietnam from Feb. 29-Mar. 2.

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of the big names in the fields of real estate and automobile have been mentioned in the General Department of Taxation’s report, as the state’s debtors because they have not paid tax.

Syrian authorities found on Thursday the bodies of the three slain foreign journalists, who were killed a week earlier in restive Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, a Syrian foreign ministry source said Thursday.

Microsoft on Wednesday released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, offering the beta version of its next-generation operating system as a free download worldwide.