While a lot of educators have voiced their dissatisfaction about the Nam Dinh provincial authorities not to employ the graduates of non-state owned schools, others believe that this is a reasonable decision.

Barcelona's Spain international midfielder Xavi Hernandez celebrated his 392nd league appearance for the club with the only goal of the game as his side defeated Granada 1-0 away from home in the El Carmines Stadium.

VietNamNet Bridge – H'Zina Bya, a hugely popular singer among the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) youth, will release her first album – a blend of highlands music and rock music – in HCM City this week.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Asia Stage Alliance, established during the 12th Asia Arts Festival held in Chongqing, China, was joined by 15 countries and territories including Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Enterprises are urging a higher maximum overtime limit in the draft of the amended Labour Code to be debated by the National Assembly next month.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thanh Hoa striker Hoang Dinh Tung has signed a three-year contract with V-League side Vicem Hai Phong for a reputed salary of VND40 million (US$1,900) a month.

To date, only 10 out of 63 provinces and cities have completed the drawing up of the action plans to cope with the climate change, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien called on the mass media to strengthen communication activities on the hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease at a press conference yesterday, Oct 25.

The traditional Tet holiday will come only in three months, but air tickets for Tet flights are nearly running out.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has signed a decision approving a plan on the implementation of a cooperative agreement between the governments of Vietnam and the Philippines on search, rescue and coping with oil spills.

Juventus beat Fiorentina 2-1 despite wasteful finishing at home on Tuesday.

The death toll from Sunday's powerful earthquake in southeast Turkey has risen to 459 and the number of the injured to 1,352, the Turkish Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Administration (AFAD) said Tuesday.

The unstable market, the high bank loan interest rates and the material shortage have all become the obsession of seafood companies, even though it is now the most favorable moment for export.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Social, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is working on a new salary reform project, under which the maxima wage for public servants may reach over VND12 million ($600) per month.

The consumer price index (CPI) saw a month-on-month rise of just 0.36 per cent in October, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.

A Picasso painting was stolen last Friday from a museum in Colombia's southwestern department of Cauca, the museum authorities said on Tuesday.

A recent study carried out by Israeli researchers showed that the experience of motherhood is caused by alterations in the brain functions that help mothers locate and communicate with their offspring, especially if they are in distress.

VietNamNet Bridge – The largest private weapon museum is one of the 12 Vietnamese records that were announced by the Vietnam Record Book Center last week.

Vowing to compete with the three “big giants” VinaPhone, MobiFone and Viettel, Beeline has launched an impressive promotion campaign to attract more users, which has made the telecom market become hottest than ever.

"Paranormal Activity 3" opened as the top grosser at the weekend box office in North America, raking in a whopping 54-million-U.S.-dollar receipt, while other films debuted with lackluster showings.

The State Audit of Viet Nam released a report yesterday concluding that the petroleum price stabilisation fund – used by petrol distributors to offset losses due to market price fluctuation – has passed an audit with flying colours.

Labor-intensive firms to benefit from tax payment delays; Animal husbandry to become conditional sector; Port project postponed; millions of dollars wasted; State firms dominate tax payers list; Vung Tau cancels license for amusement park

Day and night, survivors and rescuers battled to pull people out of the debris in the quake-struck eastern province of Turkey, especially the worst-hit town of Ercis.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese fashion designer Vo Viet Chung was the only Asian representative at the famous "J Autumn Fashion Show" in London, the UK.

VietNamNet Bridge – The shortage of English teachers for the program on teaching English to primary school students, which was warned before when the program was launched, has become more serious.