Many residents in HCM City's suburban districts of Hoc Mon and Go Vap are living in fear of leeches after a firm, which had set up shops in the area to buy the bloodsuckers at a good price, disappeared without any warning.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister Dinh La Thang has suspended the director of HCM City-Trung Luong highway project for crack road-surface scandal.

The prime minister of Libya's interim government announced the lineup of the country's transitional cabinet in the capital Tripoli late Tuesday that will lead the war-torn country until parliamentary elections are held in 2012.

Vietnam is now planning to impose a stricter control over the outward investment projects, after experts warned that in many cases, the investments do not bring the desired effects.

Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco received a two-month suspended sentence and a 3,000 euro fine from a French court on Tuesday for having taken EPO during the 2008 Tour de France.

The head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, said here late Tuesday that the council has accepted the resignation of the caretaker government led by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf.

Japanese cartoon characters at Exhibition House; Wood-engraved paintings depict farmers’ lives; Bartender competition names winner; HCM City to host ‘Street Book Festival’ during Tet; Jazz extravaganza Dialektos comes to Vietnam  

The use of acupuncture for children is common and acupuncture is generally safe for children when performed by "appropriately trained practitioners," Canadian researchers reported Monday in online journal Pediatrics.

Last week Vietnam Electricity (EVN) released a report that it had suffered a loss of nearly VND10.16 trillion (US$484 million), for the first time.

If successfully developed and applied in a large scale, IPNET, the control unit invented by a bachelor of the Hanoi National University, will help operate the public lightening system more effectively, thus helping save millions of dollars a year.

The rapid increase in the number of students has forced universities to recruit new lecturers regularly. However, it is very difficult to recruit lecturers these days due to the unreasonable remuneration offers.

The beauty pageant opened several days ago and Phan Thi Mo was nominated very late so she could not well prepare for the event. That’s the reason the Performing Art Agency denied to license Mo as Vietnam’s representative to Miss Earth 2011.

The Vietnamese business circle has geared up to prepare to grab the new opportunities to be brought when Ha Long Bay has been recognized as one of the seven new wonders of the world.

Vietnam-Japan Information and Communication Technology Day (Japan ICT Day) will take place in Hanoi from November 24-25 to strengthen the exchange of information and experience among IT businesses.

Vietnam aims to cut the number of tuberculosis (TB) cases by half in 2015 and eradicate the disease by 2030.

Two or three years ago, network operators always held the upper hand in the cooperation deals with content service providers (CPs) with 60-70 percent of profits falling into the pocket of network operators, while CPs get only 30-40 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge – While low-cost labour has helped fuel Viet Nam's growth, it is likely to become a handicap if workers' skills were not improved, according to a research paper.

Combating inflation and cutting lending rate will remain the top priorities of its monetary policies next year, said State Bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Binh at a press briefing yesterday.

President Truong Tan Sang received Franz Jessen, Ambassador, Head of the European Union (EU) delegation, and Angolan Ambassador to Vietnam Joao Manuel Bernado, in Hanoi on November 22.

Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Cairo Tuesday afternoon where he will meet the leader of rival Hamas in joint efforts to achieve national reconciliation, a Fatah official said.

The launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which contains the car-sized Curiosity rover, has been delayed by a day to Nov. 26, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Monday.

Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) needs at least five years to divest its capital investment in non-core businesses, deputy general director Phan Hoang Duc has said.

Divesting from non-core businesses should not be taken on an extensive scale, but aim at state-owned enterprises (SOEs) active in areas in which the state holds a monopoly.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two years after the introduction of Government Decree 88, HCM City has not managed to meet its targeted amount of collection fees for environmental hygiene and protection.

The stable economic growth of 7 percent every year and the average income per capita at 3810 dollars by 2015, will all help increase the level of automobile “coverage” in Vietnam to 26 cars per 1000 people by 2015.