Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and two others on Friday jointly won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for their work on women's rights.

VietNamNet Bridge – The local media has recently defined that some football clubs encouraged foreign players to be naturalized in Vietnam by paying them a lot of money.

VietNamNet Bridge – Part of the West Lake in Hanoi has been covered by thousands of dead fish for a week, causing serious pollution.

VietNamNet Bridge – The south central province of Phu Yen is well-known for its undulating coastline and majestic seascapes.

Photo exhibition on Fidel Castro opens in central province; HCMC Theater stages verse drama; Popular author’s latest work sells out again; Famous documentaries to be screened in HCMC cafe    

Several big-scale steel projects are still dragging their feet, largely due to the weak financial capacity of the investors and the contractors, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said in an updated report.

Coach Falko Goetz was satisfied with his team's performance despite Viet Nam's 0-1 loss to Japan in yesterday's friendly match in Kobe Wing Stadium in Japan.

Commercial banks all stated that they paid the interest rate of 14 percent per annum at the highest for dong deposits, while in fact, the actual interest rates were much higher at 17-18 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 15 per cent of state employees aged 45-49 in Ha Noi and HCM City are overweight or obese, according to the latest National Institute of Nutrition survey.

A stubborn computer virus has reportedly hit the U.S. Nevada control stations used to remotely pilot US military drone aircraft on missions in Afghanistan and other warzones, Wired reported Friday.

Sharpshooter Nguyen Thi Phuong of the Army team took gold in the women's individual 50m prone rifle event after scoring 589 points on the first day of the National Shooting Championship yesterday.

Germany's Clemens Schuldt will conduct the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera at a concert at the HCM City Opera House tomorrow, October 9.

‘Young lady in old body’ hospitalized; HCMC had the lowest birth rate nationwide; Vietnam customs bans sex toys; 41st UPU letter writing contest gets underway; Severe cold spells expected this winter  

Gold continued to fall to below the VND43.5 million a tael mark at the closing yesterday, proving the effectiveness of the central bank’s package to stabilize the market.

Tourists visiting Hoi An, a UNESCO World Heritage town, will be able to surf the internet for free from the end of this year, according to the Quang Nam Province Department of Information and Communications.

Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and his Philippine counterpart, Albert F. Del Rosario, co-chaired the sixth session of the Vietnam-Philippines Bilateral Cooperation Committee in Hanoi on Friday.

Most tour operators in the inbound segment worry about a fall in international visitor arrivals though the high season has started, as the global economic slump has taken its toll on the hospitality industry.

A lot of pedagogical school students cannot become teachers. Many others can, but they have to struggle to live with the modest income. Others have given up.

VietNamNet Bridge – Residents in Ha Long City's Cao Xanh Ward have raised concerns over mysterious land depressions, with one resident blaming the appearance of a one metre deep hole on coal mining.

In order to escape state management agencies’ notice, game publishers tend to set up servers in foreign countries. This means that gamers have to play international games, while the money collected from online games are outflow abroad.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Thursday a joint, large-scale, national study of tobacco users to monitor and assess the behavioral

VietNamNet Bridge – There is no official statistic of the loss caused by snarl-up in Vietnam’s big cities. However, it is cock-sure that the loss is extremely huge, and serious in various aspects and it damages Vietnam’s image.

VietNamNet Bridge – Placenta is rumored as a miraculous medicine or extremely nutritious food, so many people try to buy it.

"Whisper to lotus", a solo exhibition to mark 55 years of creating silk paintings and the 75th birthday of seasoned artist Nguyen Thi Tam debuts on Wednesday at the City Exhibition House in HCM City’s District 1.

The Vietnamese insurance market has opened widely to foreign investors. However, unlike other business fields, the market has not caught the attention from foreign insurers.