Almost one in four Chinese students aged between 12 and 14 have tried smoking, according to the results of a survey released by the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (CATC).

Becoming a geography teacher to teach students about marine and island sovereignty or joining the army to defend the country, are the ideas of the most excellent university graduates in 2011.

Steelmakers face falling demand; Fortis to buy 65 pct stake in Vietnam hospital chain for $64 mln; 1 percent inflation forecast for August; Property faces a taxing issue; HCM City bourse to extend trading hours in February 

American senator Jim Webb, who recently submitted to the US Congress a bill related to the East Sea, will visit Vietnam from August 20 to 24.

The Chinese government’s unilateral ban of fishing in the East Sea, arresting foreign fishermen, using patrol ships to supervise the sea is like the acts of an emperor who sees everything in this world as his assets.

British Prime Minister David Cameron Monday promised to mend Britain's "broken society" during his first set-piece speech since the riots which struck London and other English cities last week.

The debt burden of Vietnam is increasing rapidly, both in terms of debt amount and debt repayment obligations.

The four top teams of the national final round of the Tiger Champions 2011 will compete with four teams from France, Germany, Singapore and Malaysia.

US singer Anthony H.Brown could not hold back his tears when he saw child victims of Agent Orange (AO) in Quang Ngai province in the morning of August 15.

Facebook and Yahoo on Monday started to test "six degrees of separation," an iconic social experiment in the 1960s that showed everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on earth.

VietNamNet Bridge - Incidents and confrontations at sea pose a major challenge to peace and security in Indo-Pacific Asia.

Both state owned and private run nursery schools are seriously lacking teachers, which has forced them to hurry to look for teachers, “laying out the red carpet” to welcome teaching staff.

Serena Williams won the Toronto WTA title, her first back-to-back in three years, on Sunday by beating Samantha Stosur from Australia 6-4, 6-2, paving her way to play US Open, which starts in two weeks' time.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Posts and Communications Group (VNPT) is in desperate need of $350 million to invest in its Vinasat-2 satellite project.

In only three months, up to 15 new telepathic centers that seek lost remains of martyrs were established in Nghe An province in central Vietnam. The local authorities also record 13 cases of mental illness after seeking lost tombs by this method.

China successfully launched a maritime satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China at 6:57 a.m. Tuesday Beijing Time.

VietNamNet Bridge – The increasing number of foreigners coming to work in Viet Nam has forced the Government to give more favourable conditions to highly qualified foreigners and minimise the use of manual workers.

Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Nguyen Van Binh said setting up a perfect legal framework to effectively manage the gold market, and stabilizing the VND are the key goals of the monetary policies for the immediate time and long term as well.

Japan helps modernise obstetrics hospital; Bac Ninh brings love duet songs to schools; Insurance officials arrested for embezzlement; Passengers aged over 60 enjoy discounts

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese seafood exporters now on the tenterhooks, because more and more European and American importers ask for lower prices or give up the contracts.

VietNamNet Bridge – The short-term projected shrimp hatchery areas in Quang Nam province have encroached on the roads, damaged the forests and polluted the environment.

Wall Street rallied on Monday, helping erasing all losses after the Standard & Poor's downgrade on the U.S. rating, as investors were hunting bargains after a roller-coaster week.

Global food prices at near record high levels in tandem with continued volatility put the poorest people in the developing world on the edge, the World Bank said on Monday.

Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange recovered on Monday, as weaker- than-expected U.S. economic data and declines in the greenback lured investors back to the gold market.

VietNamNet Bridge - After Jetstar Pacific and Vietnam Airlines, the privately-owned Air Mekong has entered the discount ticket race.