Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Kiev yesterday, beginning his three-day official visit to Ukraine at the invitation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

Russia and China, the two permanent members of the UN Security Council, on Tuesday vetoed a draft resolution, which meant to strongly condemn "the continued grave and systematic human rights violations by the Syrian authorities"

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Tuesday that monetary policy is not "panacea" for curing the U.S. economic problems, while calling for the Congress and all economic policymakers to act together

VietNamNet Bridge – Returning home, a mother in Ky Son district in the central province of Nghe An detected that a dog bit off her baby’s penis.

VietNamNet Bridge - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, Nguyen Phu Trong, will pay an official visit to China from October 11-15.

VietNamNet Bridge – Chairman of the National Assembly’s (NA) Committee for Science, Technology and Environment, Phan Xuan Dung, has warned that rivers would die one day if Vietnam does not change its policy on water resource management.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Anh Gia Lai football club’s Chair, Doan Nguyen Duc, a famous businessman, has pledged bonus of VND11 billion ($500,000) for the championship of the Southeast Asian Games 2011.

Experts say the domestic distribution market will receive more big foreign retailers. Meanwhile, the existing distribution chains in Vietnam also plan to expand their investment scale.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City-based Children’s Hospital 2 has announced to have successfully conducted an operation for a baby with four hands on October 4.

Blaze destroys 50 houses in Tra Vinh; Border police rescue 3 women from trafficking ring; Ha Noi to open 23 express bus routes; Tax agency found withholding $69.2mil

VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon has streets of Chinese traditional medicines, ornamental birds and fish, wedding invitation cards, etc.

VietNamNet Bridge –  Seafood processing companies are creating serious water pollution problems in Kien Giang Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ballet dancers Dorothee Gilbert and Stephane Bullion from the Opera de Paris Theatre will join artists from the Viet Nam Opera and Ballet Theatre in one performance only next Monday.

It is necessary to renovate the mechanism to better exploit the Cai Mep-Thi Vai ports, or some ports would be eliminated due to interminable losses.

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said on Tuesday that the Senate vote to allow debate on a controversial bill on so-called "currency manipulation" by China is "pretty dangerous," indicating a less possibility for the bill to pass

VietNamNet Bridge – Dao Thi Nui took a broom, a shovel and a bin bag before pairing up with a classmate on Sunday morning and heading off to clean one of the streets in her hometown, Sa Pa, in the northwestern province of Lao Cai.

Vietnam seminar looks at APEC 2011 opportunities; Vietnam, Mozambique beef up cooperation; RoK national foundation day observed in Hanoi; Judicial reform board meets in Hanoi

Painting exhibition on East Sea in California; Flamenco gala celebrates Spain’s National Day; Sean Sutton displays positive post-war stories; PWA, PKRA surfing contests in Phan Thiet; Italian author Beppe Severgnini talks to Hanoi readers

The study on the expansion of the universe by Saul Perlmutter may seem to be beyond this world, but in the eyes of colleagues and family members, the co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics is a down-to-earth person

VietNamNet Bridge – With $1 billion, Vietnam can change its system of bureaucratic civil servants into a contingent of enthusiastic and qualified people, said a senior expert from the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM).

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese fans of Japanese anime and manga art will have a chance to enjoy an exhibition entitled Japan: Kingdom of Characters.

Four people, including the pilot, were pulled from the New York City's East River in the crash of a helicopter off the 34th Street Helipad on Tuesday in a dramatic, televised rescue operation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam and Switzerland will celebrate 40 years of diplomatic relations on October 11. To mark the occasion, Swiss President and foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey spoke to VNA correspondent Le Thanh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two more people were killed yesterday in the wake of ongoing storms and flooding, raising the recent death toll due to weather to 13,

Bao Viet Bank and PG Bank still cannot increase their chartered capital to 3000 billion dong as stipulated in the Decree 141, because the two big shareholders of the banks are not allowed to contribute more capital.