The HCM City Department of Health convened an urgent meeting to discuss preventative measures after 5 people were rushed to hospital for blood poisoning caused by brain inflammation and 36 others tested positive for meningitis bacterium.  

Images from the development of the Hanoi urban centre from 1873-1945 are on display at the Thang Long-Hanoi Heritage Conservation Centre.

Can Tho City People’s Procuracy has dismissed the ‘slush fund’ case against Tran Ngoc Suong, former head of the Song Hau Farm, according to a recent decision.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many people are buying mai (ochna) plants and different species of evergreen house plants for temporary use for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays.

They chose the bicycle as the means to make long journeys through many places all over the country to spread the message of protecting the environment. Four programs have been organized, attracting thousands of young people.

Investment consultants have reported the vigorous wave of Japanese investors coming to Vietnam to buy Vietnamese companies.

More than 7,000 websites including Wikipedia are blacking out their websites on Wednesday to protest the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act, the latest move from Silicon Valley to take on Hollywood

A water-run power generator has been invented. This is not a prestidigitation, but a scientific invention.

Vietnam considers the US as one of its leading partners and wants to bring the two countries’ relations to a new height, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The sharp falls of the stock prices have made businesses understand the complexity of the finance market and prompted them to sell stocks to restructure their investment portfolios.

Researchers in Germany have found a cheap and easy way to synthesize anti-malaria drug in large quantities from waste materials, said the Max Planck Society on Tuesday.

The country’s leaders met on Jan. 19 at the Presidential Palace on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.

VietNamNet Bridge – Unused spare parts of computers have become unique decorative items at the flower market in HCM City’s Phu My Hung residential area.

The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and the United States have agreed to hold talks over the state of affairs in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK) after its leader's death, the foreign ministry said here Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Below are the latest pictures of the street of calligraphers, which opens annually before the lunar New Year festival on the pavement around Hanoi’s Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature).

Software outsourcing off to a good start; More flats for sale this month; Oversupply likely to drag sugar price down; Three card switching systems to be merged; Seafood exporters see growth in value-added products  

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s national football team has remained in the lead of Southeast Asian despite dropping two notches to 101st position in the FIFA rankings for January 2012.

On January 19, a delegation of the Party Central Committee, the State President’s Office, the National Assembly, the Government paid floral tribute to the late President Ho Chi Minh at his Mausoleum in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Several days before Tet holiday, many roads in Hanoi are stuck even at noon.

Fears of environmental disaster exist as sea storms may cause fuel leaks from the cruise liner which ran aground off Italy's western coast, environment minister Corrado Clini said on Wednesday.

The Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Wednesday that it will raise 500 billion U.S. dollars in additional resources to beef up its firewall, amid mounting worries over the ongoing eurozone debt crisis.

A made in Vietnam robot by the TOSY Robotics Joint Stock Company has been selected as the best music gadget in the world by the Huffington Post, a US online magazine. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Intensive preparations, including the decorating of hundreds of trees with lights, have been made by HCM City to greet Tet (Lunar New Year) from January 22-25.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese models Nhu Thao, Doan Tuan and Minh Vuong were honored at the Asian Model Festival and the Young Faces of Asia in Seoul on January 17 and 18.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday stressed the need to find out "emergency measures to protect jobs."