VietNamNet Bridge –Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay has been named in a temporary list of the world’s 10 new wonders of nature by the New Open World Corporation, four days before the poll ends.

VietNamNet Bridge – Highly expected to rank highly at the Miss International 2011 pageant, Vietnam’s Truc Diem only entered the top 15. Miss Ecuador, Maria Fernanda Cornejo, defeated 66 rivals to become the beauty queen.

VietNamNet Bridge – Six designers have launched their ready-to-wear fall-winter collections in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Le Quoc Toan of Viet Nam successfully pocketed a bronze medal from the World Weightlifting Championships in Paris on Sunday.

Commercial banks have become more hesitate to sell dollars at the prices higher than the ceiling levels after the State Bank continuously threatens to heavily punish the violators.

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced plans to travel to Vietnam and China in mid-November to help strengthen bilateral trade relations and support the American brand throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Vietnam attaches great importance to reinforcing its traditional relationship and multifaceted cooperation with Luxembourg, says State President Truong Tan Sang.

Greeks awaited on Monday the announcement of the new unity government that will continue efforts to save the country from default, as outgoing Prime Minister George Papandreou

At least 300,000ha would be reduced from the country's areas under rice cultivation between 2020 and 2030, leaving just 3.5 million ha to produce the staple, Dr Bui Ba Bong, Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, has warned.

Japan's benchmark coincident composite index fell 1.4 points in September from the previous month, the Cabinet Office said in a preliminary report Monday.

Coffee exports are expected to drop for the 2011-12 crop to 1.1 million tonnes of coffee, due to a fall in output and depleted stock, according to the Viet Nam Coffee and Cocoa Association (Vicofa).

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that the settlement of the current eurozone's debt crisis will take at least a decade to complete.

According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the total receipt of the state budget may reach 612 trillion dong in 2011, or 16.7 percent higher than the 2010’s estimates. 

Having a 2600 kilometer railway with hundreds of essential routes along the North-South backbone, Vietnam still cannot persuade travelers to choose railways services.

VietNamNet Bridge - Any blind person wanting to write and publish songs can now do so if they’re lucky enough to be a student at Saigon’s Sao Mai Computer Center for the Blind.

Employment quality in China is relatively low, which is a major reason affecting the quality of economic growth, says a latest report on the labor market.

Australian federal government on Sunday signaled its mid-year budget review will reveal a lower- than-estimated growth rate for the Australian economy.

Vietnam has been officially added into the list of the nationals that face the water shortage.

Coffee industry to spend $600m in bid to regain trademark; Exporters told EU trade still lucrative; SBV may adjust forex rate by early 2012; Stock market slump causes misery for brokerages; Garment exports reach $11.7 billion

Hanoi police have arrested a taxi driver a week after he overcharged by 40 times two Singaporean delegates to the 80th Interpol General Assembly meeting in Hanoi. He also took away their Iphone.

VietNamNet Bridge - The national track and field team expects to win at least eight gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games 2011 in Indonesia later this month.

VietNamNet Bridge – A month-long anti-smoking campaign was launched in HCM City last week, aiming to raise awareness of the harmful effects of both active and passive smoking.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee will launch a week-long promotional campaign from November 7-11, to urge people to vote for Ha Long Bay as one of the seven new natural wonders of the world.

VietNamNet Bridge - A petition to amend 16 laws relating to local business environment improvement is set to go before the National Assembly, the Government and central ministries and agencies at the year’s end.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam dominated the 15th Asian Xiangqi Chinese Chess Individual Championship that closed in Macau on November 4, after its players topped both the men's and women's categories.