VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's top chess player Le Quang Liem lost to Daniel Alsina Leal from Spain on Monday in the seventh round of the Aeroloft Open in Russia.

Japanese Orchestra AUN performs in Hanoi; Kite-surfing contest kicks off in Mui Ne; Vietnamese musicians bring home medals; Hanoi exhibition celebrates Vietnam – S.Korea relation; Ba Ria-Vung Tau to host seaports festival  

The foreign direct investment (FDI) will automatically flow to the most profitable business fields. If Vietnam wants to drive the FDI flow to the addresses it wants, it has to apply reasonable policies and offer reasonable incentives.

Ten sea reserves and 19 inland waters reserves will have been established and put into use by 2015, according to a national program on protecting and developing seafood resources till 2020.

Managers, researchers and experts from the US, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Vietnam gathered at an international seminar on tourism in Hue city on February 14.

As of February 13, the bird-flu virus of the H5N1 type has been detected in six more provinces, taking to nine the number of provinces hit by the contagious avian influenza.

Official prosecuted for stealing relief aid; Man torturing adopted child arrested; Bird flu outbreaks reported in more areas; WB helps Vietnam deal with floods in cities

VietNamNet Bridge – As the lunar New Year 2012 came one month earlier, wild peach trees in Moc Chau district, in the northern mountain province of Son La turn out to blossom lately.

Vietnamese rice exporters have signed the contracts on selling 430,000 tons so far this year. However, importers only ordered high grade rice, fragrant or sticky rice, while no ton of low grade rice (25 percent broken rice) has been sold.

Beijing's health authorities have banned all schools in the city from providing snap beans to students, in order to prevent food poisoning, the Beijing Morning Post reports.

VietNamNet Bridge – Head coach Sergio Gargelli believes Viet Nam can qualify for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Futsal Championships ahead of next week's qualifiers.

VietNamNet Bridge – A group of 25 adolescents, who gathered for a conference about teen sexuality and unplanned pregnancy in HCM City, demanded better quality sex education and reproductive health care services.

VietNamNet Bridge – The duration required for granting a visa exemption for overseas Vietnamese to enter Vietnam has been reduced from seven to five business days on receipt of valid applications, according to a prime ministerial decision.

The Grammys were awarded Sunday in Los Angeles as The Recording Academy grappled with the task of paying tribute to one of its fallen greats, Whitney Houston who died the night before.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City-based Audio Books for the Blind Charity Fund recently completed titles to add to its audio book library, including textbooks, reference books, history books, and fairy tales.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh plays very well at the Thomas & Uber Cup 2012. He defeated the world third and 32nd players and is now at his best form.

Most of the Vietnamese people think that foreign tourists are all the rich people whom they need overcharge. They also think that the money the foreigners spend in Vietnam is just a small part of the tourists’ big fortunes.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Tuesday urged the public not to panic over three explosions in Bangkok related to three Iranians.

Most of the students asked to write about their thoughts about the learning shift changes have expressed their disagreement to the decision about the new school hours.

Vietnam joins NAM for the advancement of women; President tours rural programme pilot site; S Africa president meets with VN union chief; HCM City hosts Party building conference

Tens of people gathered in front of the Dung Quat bio-ethanol plant on February 13 to oppose the plant’s behavior of causing pollution and killing fishes.

One of the tasks the Minister of Finance has told the State Securities Commission (SSC) to do right in the first quarter of 2012 is to inspect securities companies, the process of restructuring securities companies remains on… paper.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni expressed their delight to the good terms between the two neighbouring countries, as the two met in Ha Noi yesterday, Feb 14.

The government will inspect many state-owned economic corporations’ obedience of salary- and income-related legal regulations this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - As soon as the Prime Minister requested to re-consider the sentence on Mr. Doan Van Vuon, many lawyers have raised their views.