VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA) will today kick off the selection rounds for the Sao Khue Awards, an annual prize giving ceremony aimed at the IT and software sectors.

After two days of suffering from loss of appetite, headache and high fever of 39.5 degree Celsius, Nguyen Thi Oanh was taken to Binh Thanh District Hospital in HCM City and diagnosed with dengue fever in the third stage.

Sonadezi Long Thanh in Dong Nai province was caught red-handed in discharging untreated waste water in early August 2011. However, to date, it still has not compensated farmers’ loss.

Chinese merchants have been flocking to fishing ports in Khanh Hoa province to collect seafood materials. Meanwhile, the local authorities still do not know what they should do to settle the problem.

VietNamNet Bridge – The “drop-out” season has begun in many areas. Students don’t return to school after Tet, while teachers spend time walking long distances to meet students to persuade them to go back to school.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam always gives priority to consolidating neighbourliness, traditional friendship, and multifaceted cooperation with Cambodia.

Some enterprises have begun importing specific animal feed reserved for making chicken eggs rich in Omega 3. Meanwhile, scientists are also following their research works to find out the know-how to create these kind of chicken eggs.

VietNamNet Bridge – The organizing board of the Dedication Awards 2011 has released the list of nominees at a press conference early this week.

Vietnamese people, after violently criticizing the overcharging to “clean the tourism sector” have offered a lot of suggestions to stop the evil.

France's Budget Minister Valerie Pecresse on Tuesday said the government's reform on social VAT was expected to create up to 120,000 jobs and bolster competitiveness of local companies.

Home is where the heart is. After living in France for 30 years, Nguyen Thai Hoc still longs for his old days in Viet Nam so he and his wife have opened a restaurant to bring a piece of the homeland to their adopted country.

A group of international scientists met here on Sunday to discuss the impact of climate change, one of the biggest issues facing the world today.

Bau Truc in the central province of Ninh Thuan is the oldest pottery village in Southeast Asia, which also has a museum featuring traditional pottery of the Cham ethnic minority people.

VietNamNet Bridge – No activities at the headquarters, no answer to the calls, no news on websites – some securities companies have quietly disappeared from the market.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thanks to pitaya trees, thousands of households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam have had money to build big houses and buy cars…

London is planning a massive security exercise this week for the upcoming Olympic Games, the Metropolitan police authorities said on Monday.

U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan will host Saturday Night Live on March 3, marking her first return to the show since 2006, according to foreign media reports Tuesday.

Last October, Tran Van Tiep, 97, paid $25,000 as deposit for exploring a “treasure” in Tau Mount in Binh Thuan. Below is the sensational story about the old man who has kept searching for the “4,000 ton gold treasure” for dozens of years.

Key industrialisation planned for 2020; Conoco sells Vietnam units for $1.29 billion; Vietnam aims at $14-16bln ODA disbursement until 2015; $1.4 billion for Hanoi-Lang Son expressway; State firms to cut admin costs;

ConocoPhillips, the third-largest US oil company, signed a deal late last week to sell its Viet Nam business units for US$1.29 billion to Anglo-French oil and gas explore Perenco SA.

The information portal Zing.vn emerged as the first among Vietnam’s top 100 websites in January, according to data collected by DoubleClick Ad Planner.

VietNamNet Bridge – IT experts said that the establishment of the National Committee on IT, chaired by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, is “the most important IT event of 2012.”

VietNamNet Bridge – Ten days after Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung released the conclusion on the Tien Lang land withdrawal case, Hai Phong authorities have revoked the decision on taking back Mr. Doan Van Vuon’s land.

VietNamNet Bridge – Young coaches of Chelsea FC brought to 180 Vietnamese teen football players, some useful and interesting days of training at HCM City’s Hoa Lu Stadium on February 18-19.

Finance ministers from the eurozone reached a Greek bailout plan early Tuesday, agreeing on measures to reduce the country's debt level to 120.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020.