If you build it, they will come. Or so the saying goes.

VietNamNet Bridge – High school students who take part in the national foreign language competition this year will have to take a speaking test for the first time,

The Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Government two plans to bring foreign investment into the domestic aviation market.

Following reports from local media that one of its subsidiaries in Ho Chi Minh City is engaging in petrol theft, Petrolimex has called on the police to inspect and initiate prosecution when possible, its executives said Tuesday.

The trade sector has planned a modest export growth of 13 percent in 2012 despite a robust 33 percent increase in 2011. Experts say it is not an easy task to achieve as many economies are not out of the woods yet.

Tam Giang Lagoon is where the Huong, Bo and O Lau Rivers meet before they flow into the sea through Thuan An estuary in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

VietNamNet Bridge – While the export turnover has been increasing steadily, the budget for trade promotion has been cut down gradually.

Lieut. Gen. Pham Xuan Hung, Deputy Chief of the Gen. Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, welcomed Major General Yohishideof the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force, in Hanoi on January 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – A joint inspection team in Hanoi on Monday caught a local restaurant’s owner directing her workers to illegally cook a tiger skeleton, weighing about 150 kg, into tiger bone glue for sale.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan hosted a reception in Ha Noi yesterday, Jan 10, for International Francophone Organisation administrator Clement Duhaime.

VietNamNet Bridge – Movie makers attended a seminar in Ha Noi on Monday to discuss the strengthening of co-operation between ASEAN and South Korea through film exchange.

VietNamNet Bridge – Central Da Nang City's Sciences and Technology Department, in collaboration with German naturalist Ulrike Streicher, organised a photo exhibition on Monday featuring the biodiversity of Son Tra Natural Reserve.

Businessmen have been moving heaven and earth to collect debts. They themselves do not have money to make payment with partners.

An undersea earthquake with magnitude of 7.1 rocked northern tip of Sumatra island earlier Wednesday, it was potential for tsunami that the people flee from coastal areas, but no damages or casualty was reported, officials said.

Nowadays, rich men not simply choose the products with the best quality, but they choose the products which most fit them in accordance with the science of winds and waters.

Lawmakers from Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam discussed measures to improve the efficiency of legislative budget oversight at a workshop in Ha Noi yesterday, including increasing the co-operation between auditing agencies.

MONRE’s Minister Nguyen Minh Quang has affirmed that his ministry is not as weak and problematic as people think.

In June 2010, the government approved a plan to train 20,000 PhDs in the next 10 years. In December 2011, MOET submitted the plan on human resource development, which says by 2020, Vietnamese universities would have 29,000 PhDs.

VietNamNet Bridge – Historical sources document Viet Nam's Paracel Archipelago, offering proof of the country's sovereignty over the islands. Such evidence is presented in the newly published Ky Yeu Hoang Sa

VietNamNet Bridge – The economic panorama of Vietnam in 2011 was not very bright, but it is acknowledged that the Government exerted its effort to overcome difficulties when the global economy did not surpass the crisis yet.

Iran confirmed that it has begun uranium enrichment at an underground bunker of the Fordo nuclear facility, Iranian diplomats on Monday said at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s headquarters.

A forest development program of the agriculture ministry has a target of making around one-third of the nation’s forests meet sustainable development standards by 2020 but this goal is considered too ambitious.

The European Commission issued three billion euros (3.8 billion U.S. dollars) of 30-year maturity bonds Monday on the back of strong and wide demand from investors.

Eighteen grooms managed to stave off cold feet in this city even though the temperature dropped to minus 20 C on the day they were to get married.

The “technology of making up low quality petrol” has been applied in Vietnam for a long time, while low quality products still have been available on the market. However, state management agencies still have “ignored” the problem.