VietNamNet Bridge – FIFA-accredited referee Vo Quang Vinh won the Golden Whistle award following his outstanding performance in the V-League this year, the Viet Nam Football Federation announced yesterday, Sep 7.

VietNamNet Bridge – A bank loan was the only way Thong Thanh Le's parents were able to send their three children to university even though they had spent their working years saving every dong they could from selling rice.

A YAK-42 passenger plane carrying 45 people crashed Wednesday after taking off near central Russian city of Yaroslavl, killing at least 43 people aboard, said the Emergency Situations Ministry.

A rare species of rock rat, thought to have been extinct for 11 million years, has just been found in the central province of Quang Binh by a group of Vietnamese scientists, according to Fauna & Flora International (FFI). 

After a rapid development period, mobile network operators have entered a new period when they see the slowdown in growth, due to the stiffer competition and the lack of innovative services.

The Government of Vietnam has decided to halt licensing mining projects in an effort to stop the spontaneous mining in a massive scale, which has caused social evils and environment pollution.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg outlined on Tuesday the city's progress made in the past decade in rebuilding Lower Manhattan devastated by 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A lot of professional translators and interpreters swear not to use translation machines. However, they may change their mind in the near future.

Fewer American adults are smoking cigarettes and daily smokers are smoking fewer cigarettes each day, according to a new report released Tuesday from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Nine tourism projects under construction at the Nhon Hoi Economic Zone in Binh Dinh Province have now been shelved, as local authorities and residents have become impatient with their slow progress. 

Four out of the 16 cement plant projects, which were guaranteed by the government when borrowing capital from foreign sources, have entreated help of the Ministry of Finance to pay due debts.

The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resumed Wednesday in a police academy in a suburb of Cairo amid intensive security measures.

VietNamNet Bridge – Being held on a monthly basis since summer 2011, “Keep Your Passion” has lured many rock fans and music lovers in general.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 10,000 people flocked to Do Son stadium in the northern port city of Hai Phong to watch 15 fights of 16 buffaloes. Buffalo number 30 won the championship, with a $2,000 bonus.

The death toll of the terrorist attack outside the Delhi High Court in the Indian capital Wednesday has risen to 11 while 76 people were injured, a senior Home Ministry official said.

Brazil's benchmark IPCA inflation rate rose to 7.23 percent year-on-year during the past 12 months, the highest since 2005, the country's official statistics agency IBGE reported Tuesday.

Inflation slows growth of retail sales; Vietnam’s export growth expected to slow down; Air Mekong begins Hanoi-Con Dao service; Inflation rate in 2011 swings around 18pct; Cement industry loses loan guarantees  

At least nine people were killed and more than 45 others injured in a blast outside the Delhi High Court in the Indian capital Wednesday, a senior Home Ministry official said.

At least 21 people were killed and over 40 others injured when a twin bomb attack hit Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday morning, reported local Urdu TV channel Geo.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has passed 16 out of 21 national target programmes proposed and submitted to the Prime Minister for approval as part of a five-year socio-economic development plan for 2011-15.

VietNamNet Bridge – Several music and dance performances will be held in HCM City on Friday to celebrate the National Theatre Day.

VietNamNet Bridge – Originating from downgraded infrastructure and overworked doctors and nurses, Vietnamese patients do not enjoy their minimum rights: being examined and taken care considerately.

Steel manufacturers in Hai Phong City had still owed trillions of dong to commercial banks by the end of August 2011. The majority of the debts are the third, fourth and fifth group debts, i.e subprime and irrecoverable debts.

VietNamNet Bridge – The nine-year-long cleanup of the polluted Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Canal in HCM City is set to be completed in the next four months, with wastewater no longer flowing into it and its banks turning green.

Yahoo on Tuesday fired Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz and replaced her temporarily with the company's chief financial officer.