VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City pledged to curb the traffic accidents, aiming to reduce the number of accidents and traffic jams in the country’s economic hub by 10 per cent next year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese badminton is hoping that two players will qualify for the Olympic Games in London – world No 7 Nguyen Tien Minh and Vu Thu Trang, who won bronze at the Singapore Youth Olympics last year.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday submitted a letter to European Union (EU) President Herman Van Rompuy, detailing actions needed to surmount the current debt crisis.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday officially submitted the paperwork required to register as a candidate in Russia's March 4 presidential election.

Analysts say that Vietnam should not slash the rice prices at which enterprises collect from farmers, in order to compete with cheap rice from India, Pakistan and Myanmar.

Four passengers and a pilot were killed when a helicopter crashed near Las Vegas Wednesday evening, a spokesman for the National Park Service said.

 Financial support for flood-affected farmers; 2 more Vietinbank officials arrested; Fire breaks out at Central Highlands market; 13,500 smuggled tobacco packs seized

VietNamNet Bridge – It has been five years since guitar virtuoso Kim Chung performed on the stage.

Kieu hoi (overseas remittances) prove to be the only “ray of hope” for real estate developers, when all the channels for capital mobilization have closed to them.

VietNamNet Bridge – A 21-year-old man was accidentally discovered to have a broken heart. It turns out that the man was butted to his chest by a buffalo when he was only two.

VietNamNet Bridge – Representatives of the Vietnam Next Top Model program and its lawyers met with the three contestants who are said to have leaked out information about the reality show on December 5.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s national air carrier Vietnam Airlines has just announced to raise airfare of domestic air routes as of December 15.

VietNamNet Bridge – A 4.5m pine tree made of 2,500 secondhand cell phones is now on display at an electronic store in My Tho city, the southern province of Tien Giang.

VietNamNet Bridge – This year the capital city’s GDP grows only 10.1 percent while it targets to reach 12 percent. Many other goals on housing and clean water for citizens and reducing the number of third child are not achieved.

The draw for the qualifier round of the AFC Cup 2012 took place at the office of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in Malaysia on December 6. Two Vietnamese football clubs – Song Lam Nghe An and Navibank Saigon – joined the event.

Yemeni Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi Wednesday disclosed in a republican decree the new opposition-led national reconciliation government's line-up according to a Gulf-brokered power-transfer initiative,

Christmas decorations on the rise; Famous tragedy to be staged in Hanoi; Heavy rock band The Wall to perform live; Gourmet tea tasting; Photo exhibition on children by French artist; Art festival surprised by copy scandal    

Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Sinh Hung left Belgium for London, starting his official visit to the UK at the invitation of Baroness D'Souza, the newly elected Speaker of the House of Lords.

Energy-starved Cambodia on Wednesday opened the country's largest hydropower dam to date, a multi-million dollar Chinese-funded project that has attracted criticism from environmental groups.

VietNamNet Bridge – Construction on sewerage and resevoir for Hai Phong City’s environmental improvement project started on Tuesday in Hai Phong City.

While high school students complain that the higher number of exam subjects will put a heavier burden on them, teachers say that the Ministry of Education and Training MOET’s plan on six-subject exam is unfeasible.

While the demand for hi-tech products is very high on the domestic market, Vietnamese brad information technology (IT) products still cannot get a foothold on the lucrative market.

The river mouths of Kon and Ha Thanh, the two big rivers that flow to the Thi Nai lagoon, are in the danger of changing their shape due to the implementation of a tourism project, which may seriously influence the seaport system in Quy Nhon City

Iran has blocked a web-based embassy provided by the U.S. government to Iranians only a day after it was officially launched, local Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.

Foreign invested enterprises import products, then label the products as Vietnam goods and export to other countries. The trick helps them escape from trade barriers and enjoy the preferential tariffs offered by import countries.