Vietnam plans to install a Tsunami Warning System that will cover the coastal areas, more populated islands, and 13 cities and provinces nationwide, which are most at risk of being hit by a tsunami and high tidal waves.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam attaches great importance to developing the traditional relationship and multifaceted cooperation with Bulgaria, says National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung.

State owned enterprises (SOEs) have always been defined as the motive force in the national economy and the instrument for the government to implement its macro economic policies.

VietNamNet Bridge – A nine-hour music festival - Soundfest, in HCM City on April 14, which had the appearance of the Korean band Big Bang, made many fans exhausted and faint.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Duy Chien, a local man in Huong Thuy town, Thua Thien-Hue province, has returned a laptop worth $3,500 to its owner, a foreign visitor.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Peace Trees Viet Nam (PTVN) non-government organisation received de-mining equipment from Australian donors in Dong Ha city, Quang Tri Province this morning.

VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal mineral exploitation is rampant in the border provinces, according to the Government.

VietNamNet Bridge – Realizing the attractive investment opportunities in the Vietnamese stock market, a lot of foreign investors are burning to make disbursement. However, many of them can do nothing except seeing the opportunities missing.

VietNamNet Bridge - The festival concluded on April 15 by an impressive performance by Vietnamese and international artists.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two passenger trains had to stop halfway for nearly three hours because a bomb was detected under the pile of a bridge in Thanh Hoa province.

China's drug watchdog issued an emergency notice late Sunday night to suspend the selling and consumption of a list of capsules with reported excessive chromium contamination.

VietNamNet Bridge – Calligrapher Do Minh Nhan is preserving Viet Nam's ancestral penmanship in the historic port town of Hoi An.

VietNamNet Bridge – An installation art called “Red Pillows” was displayed at the Dien Tho Palace in the Hue royal citadel for five nights of the Hue Festival, creating a peaceful and sweet place for visitors.

VietNamNet Bridge – Five Buddhist monks who volunteered to practice Buddhism at pagodas in the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands left Khanh Hoa province to Truong Sa on April 12.

Signed rice export deals reach 3.6 million tons; Vietnam Super Model contest announces jury member; Chol-chnam-Thmay festival held in HCM City; Hanoi to host exhibition of rivers in SEA 

Banks finally begin to trim interest rates; US new technical barrier hinders local honey exports; VN is world’s biggest woodchip exporter in 2011; $3.7 billion spent on animal feed imports; FPT to be Apple’s official distributor in Vietnam

The long-awaited talks over Tehran 's controversial nuclear program concluded in Istanbul of Turkey on Saturday between Iran and six world powers, with both sides describing the talks as positive and constructive.

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VietNamNet Bridge – A national Green Climate Fund will soon be set up to facilitate future financial flow from the global Green Climate Fund into Viet Nam.

A United Nations advance observers' team arrived in the Syrian capital of Damascus late Sunday to monitor the fragile cease-fire brokered by international envoy Kofi Annan, sources told Xinhua anonymously.

VietNamNet Bridge – Animal feed industry representatives and health officials have called for slapping criminal charges against those who use lean-meat additives in feed.

Vietnam’s new minimum salary regulations will put a smile on blue-collar workers’ faces.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new art installation at the Goethe Institute by Hue-based artist Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai is entitled The Vestiges and features about 60 wooden boxes with sandals and other objects found along the Huong River,

As capital gets exhausted, numerous enterprises have to scale down their production and cut down the labor force. Other enterprises do not sack workers, but encourage them to resign from the posts, or delay salary payment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Sai Gon FC showed great skill in beating Hai Phong 3-2 during their round 14 match at Lach Tray Stadium yesterday, April 15.