VietNamNet Bridge – In yesterday’s appeal hearing, the Supreme People’s Court upheld the life sentence handed down to Tran Thuy Lieu by Long An Province People’s Court in March 2012 for killing her husband last year.

If the microchip manufacturing project gets off the ground soon, the country will be able to launch “made in Vietnam” microchip products on the market.

Minh progresses to semi-finals; Belgian youth set for friendlies; Local basketballers triumph

No one can point out why Bianfishco has been saved from sinking, while there are thousands of other businesses which are also in big difficulties like Bianfisco.

VietNamNet Bridge – An art exhibition that reflects aspirations of women all over the world to create a global culture of humanitarian values that protects and sustains the environment opens in HCM City tomorrow, June 24.

VietNamNet Bridge – When the night falls, Saigon becomes mysterious and charming, differently from its warm and bustling during the day.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong welcomed visiting Speaker of Myanmar’s Upper House Khin Aung Myint in Hanoi on June 22.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bac Lieu is a symbol of natural bounty with its rice paddies, shrimp ponds and luxuriant orchards.

Germany showed their champion-level strength by sweeping past Greece 4-2 to reach Euro 2012 semifinals on Friday night. Philipp Lahm's powerful strike, Sami Khedira's volley, Miroslav Klose's header and Marco Reus' last shot inspired Germany

VietNamNet Bridge – There is a species of giant waxy pumkin in My Tho commune in the central province of Binh Dinh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and Thailand, the world’s two largest rice exporters, have agreed to increase the sharing of information on rice exports to stabilise the food market and maintain food security.

Mayors of the cities from the expanded Greater Mekong Sub-region will arrive in HCMC to discuss tourism cooperation, product enhancement and youth tourism promotion.

In order to increase the investments in science and technology, Vietnam needs to think of calling for investment capital from the private sector rather than relying on the state budget.

In the first half of the year 734,000 jobs were created, accounting for slightly less than half of the full year's target, officials from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said at a seminar on Tuesday.

Joint training programs have been booming. The watchdog agencies say they are not powerful enough to control all the programs.

NA Economic Committee deputy chairman Nguyen Duc Kien sheds some light on Vietnam’s growth perspective and what state firms should do to ensure the success of the government’s ongoing economic restructuring commitment.

Total national lending contracted 0.59 per cent in the first four months, reaching about VND2,617 trillion (US$125.82 billion) on April 30, the State Bank of Viet Nam announced.

Samsung and Nokia have announced the huge investment projects worth billions of dollars, planning to earn billions of dollars a year from exports. Meanwhile, Vietnam, as the landlord, only would be able to collect little money in tax from them.

HCMC plans to turn to Tri An and Dau Tieng reservoirs as a backup source of crude water due to a severe saltwater intrusion and a worsening pollution in Dong Nai and Saigon rivers that have long been supplying water for the city.

VietNamNet Bridge – There is a commune in Hanoi where hundreds of people earn their living by washing refuse.

VietNamNet Bridge – Some families are fed up with their naughty children and they try to get rid of them by sending them abroad to study.

VietNamNet Bridge – In recent years, rich people in big cities of Vietnam have acquired a new hobby: raising wild birds.

Investors flagrantly abuse insider trading loopholes; Exports to EU on the rise; Bad debts stand at 10pct of 2011 GDP, on the rise; Vietnam remains world’s top pepper exporter; First private equity in telecom network   

VietNamNet Bridge - A team of Australian and Vietnamese archaeologists have found what they believe is the earliest toilet in the southern province of Long An. However, Vietnamese archaeologists have expressed their suspicion over the discovery.

Former maritime chief wanted internationally; Market access helps cut poverty for poor people; Crackdown on food safety; Old lady becomes hero for stopping hit-and-run man