Ho Chi Minh City industrial zones are crafting ways to weather the economic storm and push performances in 2012.

Defense officials of South Korea, the United States and Japan said they believe the new leadership in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is "stable," local media reported Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – While some foreigners left Vietnam for romantic beaches in Thailand or Bali during the lunar New Year holiday, many stayed in the country to welcome the traditional Tet.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three cases of meningococcal disease and 72 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease have been reported nationwide since January 21, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien said yesterday, Jan 30.

Many economic problems are still looming large in and outside Vietnam, making experts at a recent business forum in HCM City believe this year would be very challenging for Vietnam to reach targets for gross domestic product growth and inflation.

VietNamNet Bridge – A stone road dating back to the 14th century has been discovered at the remains of the Ho citadel complex in the central province of Thanh Hoa.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi police have raised security around the Huong (Perfume) Pagoda site, which is known for becoming overcrowded and theft-prone during the Huong Pagoda festival.

More and more businessmen say they have confidence on the feng shui theory and believe that the knowledge about the theory can help them more prosper in doing business.

VietNamNet Bridge – The meningococcal meningitis epidemic has spread in five provinces and cities in Vietnam, including Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Long An, Binh Phuoc and Quang Tri,

The annual Vieng Market Festival takes place on the eighth day of the first lunar month, when people have just finished celebrating the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. 

Foreigners who are eligible for residency in Vietnam can look forward to a shorter processing time for residency permit applications.

President Truong Tan Sang held a working session with the leaders of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Law Universities in Hanoi on Jan. 30, on measures to improve the quality of human resource training and achieve judicial reform.

The programme of football for society was launched in Hanoi on January 30, in the presence of Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) President Nguyen Trong Hy and Barcelona FC’s representative Marce Xavi.

Body of drowned teenager found; Overseas Vietnamese celebrate Tet in Paris; Businessman indicted for embezzling over 4,000 monitors; Food inspections tightened in schools

Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem defeated his Israeli rival Tamir Nabaty (Elo 2563) on January 30 in the seven round of the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, which is taking place in the UK.

VietNamNet Bridge – Money collected from fire violation fines is expected to enhance the country's firefighting capacity, which is now far below demand, according to major general Do Van Son, director of the Department for Firefighting

Defiant Occupy D.C. protesters on Monday vowed to continue with their encampment in the U.S. capital as the deadline for decampment passed. The U.S. National Park Service last week ordered protesters at two encampment sites

VietNamNet Bridge – A misspelling of London's famous Big Ben captured the hearts of judges and lifted eight-year-old Nguyen Song Anh to the first prize in the British Council's Young Learner's Art Competition.

VietNamNet Bridge – The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) gained a majority of the votes in the country’s Senate elections, receiving up to 77.81 percent,

Africa will target the establishment of a continental free trade area by 2017, said a document issued here at the closing of the 18th summit of the African Union (AU) on Tuesday.

At least 123 people were injured in an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter on Monday which shook the southern Peruvian department of Ica, the National Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) said.

Vietnamese men’s futsal team will play in Group A with Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar and the Philippines at the 2012 AFF Futsal Championship, scheduled to take place in Bangkok, Thailand, from April 17-22.

Economists, who believe that the pressure for Vietnam to devaluate the dong to boost exports is not big in 2012, and think that the dollar price would increase by four percent in the year.

The Arab League (AL) will hold a foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the worsening situation in Syria, the AL's deputy chief says.

Many people have got surprised when hearing that Le Ba Khanh Trinh, who won the gold medal at the mathematics Olympiad and the special prize, simply works as a mathematics lecturer at a university in HCM City.