Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he was in good physical condition after a successful surgery in Cuba.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's under-19 football team beat Cambodia 2-1 in the Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy tournament in Brunei on Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuc will represent Viet Nam in the 20km Asian Race Walking Championships on March 11 in Japan.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and China frankly discussed bilateral relations and issues relating to their territorial borders during two-day talks between Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son and his Chinese counterpart Zhang Zhijun

VietNamNet Bridge – The third meeting of the Vietnam-Vatican Joint Working Group took place in Hanoi on February 27-28.

Experts have anticipated that a lot of websites selling goods under the model of groupon shopping would have to shut down in 2012, after they made a lot of mistakes in doing business.

More and more non-state owned high schools complain that they cannot enroll enough students, which has put them on the verge of bankruptcy.

A seminar was held in Hanoi on February 28 by the National Assembly Office and the Konrad Adenauer Stifung political foundation from Germany to discuss issues of State power and constitutional experiences of other countries.

Team building tourism has become more favored in Vietnam, since businesses want to bolster their staff’s confidence, encourage old officers and help new comers integrated quickly into the new environment.

It’s now the most difficult time for the fourth-group banks, the ones that are considered as the worst banks and not allowed to obtain credit growth in 2012.

The Cu Chi Wildlife Center is now saving 1500 individuals of wildlife, including the rare species which are on the verge of extinction.

VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition by the Plonk and Replonk group will begin tomorrow, Feb 1, in Ha Noi to call attention to the need for protecting timeless UNESCO heritage sites.

VietNamNet Bridge – On February 28, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Government Committee for Religious Affairs organized a conference to review tasks assigned for 2011 and discuss the implementation of the tasks set for this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – After two senior officials of Tien Lang district were dismissed, two officials of Vinh Quang commune have been punished for their mistakes in the land withdrawal case.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and Chile should consider opening direct air routes to facilitate their trade, State President Truong Tan Sang told visiting Senate President Guido Girardin Lavín in Hanoi on February 28.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign donors, including Australia, the European Union, Germany, Japan and the UK, have pledged 89 million USD for the Khmer Rouge tribunal in 2012-2013.

VietNamNet Bridge – While fishing in the northwestern sea of Song Tu Tay Island in Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago, fishermen from the central province of Quang Ngai rescued a foreigner.

Riot police evicted anti-capitalist protesters and removed their tents from the courtyard of St Paul's Cathedral in London on Tuesday.

A second student had died from Monday's shooting rampage at Chardon High School in Ohio, local media reported Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – While five steel companies have announced their bankruptcy, and many others have become clinically dead, some big scale steel companies still keep stable growth.

VietNamNet Bridge – The fact shows that preventing corruption among state officials through asking them to make asset declaration or rotating civil servants are insufficient.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese and international scientists have discovered a new species of bat in the Cat Ba and Chu Mom Ray national parks of Vietnam.

Canada is facing an epidemic of childhood obesity, with more children being diagnosed today with dangerous conditions like high blood pressure and Type 2 Diabetes, Canada's Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq warned on Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly’s function is supervising agencies, not settling specific cases, said the Vice Chair of the NA Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children, Ngo Thi Minh.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises have become less optimistic about their business outlook in Vietnam though their revenues still continue growing, according to a survey of 1,970 foreign-invested firms.