Washington's foreign policy needs to pivot away from the Middle East and towards the Asia-Pacific, says US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell.

British authority warns that jails might run out of space as prison population has increased by more than 100 a day over the past week, as courts process cases of recent rioting and looting in London and other cities.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese exporters have got new orders for the last months of the year. However, the new orders have brought more worries than joys.

VietNamNet Bridge - Can Tho City how has an International Airport, Can Tho Bridge and the living standards and infrastructure facilities have much improved.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though the Prime Minister has instructed to eliminate brick kilns as a drastic measure to protect the environment, hundreds of such kilns still have been existing in Nghe An province.

VietNamNet Bridge - The latest fad amongst young Vietnamese people these days is to flaunt an attractive mobile phone with high tech software and applications, however costly it may be.

VietNamNet Bridge – Photographer Gian Thanh Son has published his photo book featuring former President Nguyen Minh Triet during his overseas business trips.

Using integrated radar observations from a consortium of international satellites, NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica.

Marine scientists and representatives from the private sector and military establishments would meet at UNESCO at the end of this month to measure noise's impact on marine life, the Paris-based UN scientific branch UNESCO said Friday.

Vietnam reduces travelers’ foreign currency limit; Vietnam’s foreign debt tops $32 billion: ministry; VN to produce 41 mln tons of rice in 2011; Vietsovpetro plans to invest US$7 billion; Taxes on car imports increased   

VietNamNet Bridge – The Yonex -Sunrise Vietnam Open will take place from August 22 to 28, at Phan Dinh Phung sports house in HCM City, with 277 badminton players from 23 countries.

Hanoi hosts exhibition on honeymoon and wedding services; Project aims for preservation of ethnic culture; Buddhist College to be rejuvenated; Indian Cuisine Week to take place; Ancient communal house traces found in Quang Ngai

VietNamNet Bridge – Russian violinist Sergei Sivolgin swept the audiences into the melody of a Vietnamese-characteristic symphony in the first gala of the “Autumn Melody” concert on August 17 in HCM City, entitled “Symphony Concert”.

The sell-off in Wall Street continued on Friday, with major indexes suffering losses for the fourth straight week, as concerns over European debt problems and U.S. economic strength haunted the market.

As the British Council came under militants' multiple attacks Friday morning, seven people including two foreigners have been killed and five others sustained injuries, an official said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Contrary to what businesses have earlier predicted, the first seven months of this year witnessed a multicolored movement of the tourism industry, which has fared quite well.

VietNamNet Bridge – The public debt crisis in the US or Europe should be seen as the “bad examples” to Vietnam, and that Vietnam needs to try to soon settle the sovereign debts, experts say.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese beauties, top models and singers joined a fashion and music show, named “Night of Beauties” to raise fund for charity in Quang Binh province on August 14.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam recorded a $1.1 billion trade surplus in July, the first surplus in the latest 28 months, according to the General Customs Department of Vietnam.

A British police officer suspected of leaking information about the police's phone-hacking investigation to a newspaper had been arrested, the Metropolitan Police announced on Friday.

The HCMC Department of Natural Resources and Environment is now adjusting the action plan for climate change adaptation in 2011-2015, whose budget is also revised up to VND16 trillion from the previous estimate of VND12 trillion.

VietNamNet Bridge – “I should have given birth to duck eggs to sell for money rather than delivered of the one like you, who is not male or female”. Huy burst in tears when his mother said these words at the time she knew that her son is a gay.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday decried increased number of confirmed cholera cases in the Somalian capital Mogadishu, and growing reports of acute watery diarrhea in Kismayo and other crowded urban centers,

VietNamNet Bridge - Mobile service providers in Vietnam said they are not prepared to offer 4G services as they are more concerned with 3G services.

VietNamNet Bridge – The four jurymen worked very hard to choose 100 from 1,000 contestants.