Many domestic and outbound tours on the occasion of National Day holiday, September 2, are still available as more tour programs have been put on this year while demand is in decline.

Aquaculture has flourished in the central region in recent years, but is now encountering several problems, including a shortage of baby shrimp for breeding and polluted groundwater from inadequate waste treatment.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Ambassador to Libya and four embassy staffs are still safe but they are yet able to leave Libya as planned due to fast and complicated developments in the situation in Tripoli,

VietNamNet Bridge – The Border Guard Force of the central coastal city of Da Nang on Aug. 27 handed over a Filipino fisherman to the Philippine Embassy in Vietnam.

Vietnam has been following the national strategy on teaching English at general schools. However, the lack of standardized teachers has been hindering the strategy implementation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s top models and beauty queens on August 27-28, performed in new ao dai and wedding dress collections at the “Time of Memories” fashion show in HCM City, and the wedding dress show in Hanoi.

After having walloped the U.S. northeast, post-tropical cyclone Irene on Monday is whipping up strong winds and dumping heavy rain on parts of Quebec and the Maritime Provinces in Canada's southeast and leaving thousands without power.

One aircraft from Gulf Air skidded off the runway early Monday morning in port city Cochin of south India, said Press Trust of India.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is planning to run a lot of tourism promotion campaigns in the time to come, in order to attract more tourists from familiar markets, and seek more new markets.

Finance minister Yoshihiko Noda is almost certain to become Japan's next prime minister after beating economy, trade and industry minister Banri Kaieda in a run-off to win the ruling Democratic Party of Japan presidential election

VietNamNet Bridge – Countries attain a middle income level by different ways. Vietnam attains middle income through exporting minerals, raw materials or processing industry of low values.

Muammar Gaddafi is still a threat to Libya and the world, as his whereabouts remain misty, chief of the executive board of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) Mostafa Abdel Jalil said here Monday.

Newly-elected Nepali Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai was sworn in by President Ram Baran Yadav at the presidential residence here on Monday.

Power, fuel prices top ministry concerns; Viet Nam Finance 2011 to be held in September; New tax on land, property transfers; HCMC enjoys surplus, capital faces deficit; Vietnam’s online advertising revenue remains modest 

VietNamNet Bridge – Various activities will be held in big cities in Vietnam to celebrate the second Vietnam’s Music Day (September 3).

Investors will face substantial risks on the nation's stock market this week despite two consecutive weeks of gains on both stock exchanges, with speculation and lingering doubts about the global financial system adding to the instability.

VietNamNet Bridge – The traditional “Le hoi dam trau” (buffalo slaughtering festival) of ethnic minority groups in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, took place at the Village for Culture of Ethnic Groups of Vietnam in Hanoi.

Thu May comes third at Miss Supranational 2011; Vietnam set for national photo museum; Vietnam joins Super Yosakoi festival in Japan; Vietnamese pianist wins Lev Vlassenko prize; Vietnam nominates two more world heritages to Unesco

Norway-headquartered software company, Conexus, has said it sought a partner in Vietnam to enter the domestic market and use it as a launching pad to penetrate other Southeast Asian markets.

Adidas and Gucci, Honda and Microsoft, Louis Vuitton and Kimberly Clark Worldwide have one after another, sued the Vietnamese producers who counterfeited their products.

Reduced to post-tropical cyclone, Irene is heading toward Canada Sunday night after inflicting less-than-expected damage on the eastern U.S. coast.

Finance minister Yoshihiko Noda is almost certain to become Japan's next prime minister after beating economy, trade and industry minister Banri Kaieda in a run-off to win the ruling Democratic Party of Japan presidential election

VietNamNet Bridge – A shortage of labour for several industries is expected to continue until the end of this year, according to the National Centre of Labour Market Information and Forecasting.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to organize the first-ever exercise on prevention of toxic chemicals and oil spills in Phu Tho and Ca Mau provinces, after the exercise on tsunami in Da Nang city this October.

An oil tank caught fire on Monday morning in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, according to municipal government authorities.