Japan's largest telecom service provider NTT Docomo Inc on Wednesday announced that it had acquired a 25 per cent stake in Viet Nam's VMG Media Joint Stock Company to expand the firm's services in the Asia-Pacific region

The Italian cabinet approved on Friday a 45-billion-euro (around 64-billion-dollar) austerity program in a bid to avoid a believed debt crisis.

In the turbulent Wall Street week, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 1.5 percent, the S&P 500 1.7 percent and the Nasdaq 1 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thuy Vy Victoria, a Vietnamese-origin girl in the US, has been chosen as Vietnamese contestant at the Miss World 2011 in London this November.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Sung Duc Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc district has just unveiled four largest jade Buddha statues ever been made in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has been speeding up the plan to expand the network of universities and junior colleges. Meanwhile, a lot of schools now fear that they do not have enough students to enroll.

VietNamNet Bridge – Private enterprises seem to be at a disadvantage compared with foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) on the home playfield.

VietNamNet Bridge - Recent economic shocks have released a warning message: if the policy for the Mekong Delta is not changed, agriculture - the region’s advantage - will disappear.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi authorities have decided to invest VND3.3 billion ($160,000) to design the plan on environment protection to 2020, with the vision to 2030.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) does not have any proposal to add four more letters to Vietnam’s current alphabet, chief of its office Nguyen Manh Hung has confirmed in an official document sent to local media.

Russian child arts troupe visit Vietnam; Mong people’s panpipes go to festival; Vu Lan’ Buddhist festival in Suoi Tien Park; May represents Vietnam for Miss Supranational; Lap Dong Gallery is coastal art venue

Nearly 40 percent of enterprises acknowledge the importance of ISO, while the rest simply take the certification in an attempt to attend contract auctions, says an expert from an Australia-based quality management service supplier.

The Canadian smart phone manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) entered the Vietnam phone market last month, following cooperative agreements with the country’s largest network operators including Viettel, VinaPhone and MobiFone.

VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time the Japan Football Association (JFA) has invited the Vietnamese national football squad to play a friendly game v.s the Japanese team on October 7 in Kobe.

High-ranking General Vo Nguyen Giap is a legendary general of Vietnamese people and international friends. The country is about to celebrate Mr. Giap’s 100th birthday, which will fall on August 25.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Dak Nong Province Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs said it would recommend expulsion of all Chinese workers at the Nhan Co Aluminum Plant in Dak R’Lap District

VietNamNet Bridge - The HCMC Ballet and Symphony Orchestra will presents the Autumn Melodies Gala 2011 on August 17-19 at the HCM City Opera House, No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – He is one of million victims of Agent Orange (AO) in Vietnam. Many people admire him for his great efforts to overcome disability to live and live very helpful.

Vinalines posts first-half losses; Nestle invests $270 mln in Vietnam coffee factory; Hanoi firm caught selling pills with fake US label; 44 rice producers get export licenses; ADB forecasts further inflows of foreign capital into Vietnam  

Screening of “La Fille de Monaco”; Guitar Recital by Nguyen Van Phuc; Subscription Concert Vol. 43 “Tchaikovsky Night”; Screening of “The Little Heart”; Evening Lectures: Taking Paintings For a Walk; 5th International Manga Contest

After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced

The Japanese government on Friday lowered its economic growth forecast for fiscal 2011 to 0.5 percent -- one percentage point lower than previous estimates, local media reported.

A Connecticut woman who was savagely attacked by a pet chimpanzee and had her face deformed in 2009 was shown on TV with a new face Thursday.

The volume of hazardous wastes has been increasing significantly in the modernization and industrialization process. Meanwhile, the management over the hazardous waste treatment has not been improved.

VietNamNet Bridge – The fact that BlackBerry tries to conquer the Vietnamese market by joining hands with the three Vietnamese biggest network operators: Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone has created a race among the three big guys.