Singapore will host the biennial Southeast Asian Games in 2015 after competition organisers agreed to hand the regional showpiece to the city-state after a 22-year absence, according to a report.

Many foreign shipping firms have refused to transport Vietnamese frozen containers to the US and EU because of some recent container explosions, putting local seafood exporters in great difficulties.

VietNamNet Bridge – Besides gender inequality, some National Assembly deputies were displeased with advertisements aiming at children, which contain sensitive images or can guide kids to bad habbits.

VietNamNet Bridge – The victory of gymnastics and Vovinam (Vietnamese martial arts) and nine gold medals were the highlight of the Vietnamese sports delegation on the third day of the Southeast Asian Games 2011.

Pakistan ranks the seventh in the world in terms of diabetes prevalence rate and over 7.1 million people in the country are diabetes patients, reported local media on Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Sat thu dau mung mu” or Killer with a soft head, a book on Vietnamese youth slang which was withdrawn from local bookstores last month for its alleged offensive language and content, has appeared on Amazon.

VietNamNet Bridge – Top medium-distance runner Truong Thanh Hang aims for an Olympic ticket as she seeks her second gold medal today at the 26th Southeast Asia (SEA) Games in Indonesia.

New Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos pledged on Monday evening the parliamentary ratification of the EU bailout deal by the year.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Construction has asked the Government Office to verify the Ministry of Defense’s proposal to build a golf course on 176 hectares of the Mieu Mon shooting rifle range in Hanoi.

Businesses complain that they cannot buy dollars to import materials for domestic production. This not only make them suffer, but also causes big difficulties to the national economy.

U.S. Major League Soccer (MLS) on Monday announced Los Angeles Galaxy's coach Bruce Arena as the winner of the 2011 MLS Coach of the Year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will play Laos in the last Group B match of the 26th SEA Games on Thursday at the Jakarta Lebak Bulus Stadium in Indonesia.

VietNamNet Bridge – Offshore sand exploitation by foreign ships off Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island for the past year has affected the marine environment in the region, local authorities said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Russian press has widely covered the meeting between Vietnamese State President Truong Tan Sang and Russian President Medvedev on the sidelines of the 19th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC). 

Truong Tien bridge, so fragile as it looks in Hue city, plays an important role in the history of Vietnam. It links the past to the present and is a symbol of hope for the future.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomes Japan’s decision to conduct consultations with members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in a move to join the TPP talks,

Google is running a secret research lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the tech giant invests to experiment and invent what may be world-changing technologies for the future, U.S. media reported on Monday.

Japan's economy expanded an annualized real 6.0 percent in the three months ended September 30, marking its first increase in four quarters, the Cabinet Office said in a report on Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received Myanmar’s visiting Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services General Min Aung Hlaing in Hanoi on November 14.

VietNamNet Bridge – To buy satisfactory bird cages, many customers go to Vac village in Thanh Oai District, Hanoi.

The Anti-Corruption Dialogue, after nine working sessions from August 2007 to May 2011, has become an important channel for participants to share experiences and map out orientations for the fight against corruption in Vietnam.

German ruling party CDU was committed in principle to implementing the minimum wage, only stopped short of specifying its concrete amount at its national congress convention in Leipzig on Monday.

Open source software development companies in Vietnam believe that they are on the right track to follow the world’s trend in the role of providing the tools that help reduce the reliance on exclusive technologies.

Tough new rules on advertising should help make Vietnam’s streets and roads just a little more pleasing to the eye.

Vietnamese enterprises can see a new investment shift wave, when foreign investors relocate their production bases from other countries to Vietnam. However, Vietnamese businesses seem to be unable to grab the opportunities.