London vowed to take tough measures to punish rioters and maintain peace while starting to assess losses Thursday after the worst rioting and looting in decades hit English cities.

Being the champion of the Aeroflot chess competition for two consecutive years, ranking the 27th in the world, international grand master Le Quang Liem is believed to earn VND3 billion ($150,000) a year.

The Ministry of Information and Communication has decided to adjust charges of calls that connect mobile phones and fixed line phones, in an effort to stop the decline of fixed line service subscribers. But, it is not sure if the decision can help.

VietNamNet Bridge – Unsalability and big stocks have forced many home appliance retailers give up the business which was once considered lucrative. Analysts believe that the market would witness the leave of many more brands in the time to come.

Four people were killed and 30 injured after a train derailed in central Poland on Friday, local media reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – Paper-made dresses, high-heels, smart shirts, Iphone… flood the Hanoi’s old quarter before Ram thang bay (the 15th day of the 7th month of lunar calendar or August 15), the day for wondering souls.

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There are radical changes in current business landscape compared to several months ago with scarce capital and growing stockpiles firms’ largest burdens at present, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry general secretary says. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese dancers from more than 20 dance schools, theatres and independent dance teams from Southern provinces will perform at the third HCMC dance festival on August 19-22.

Both lawyers and environmental experts say that Sonadezi must be seriously punished because it is a State-owned company specializing in treating waste but it discharged untreated waste water to the environment.

VietNamNet Bridge – The tomb of King Minh Mang or Ta Tung Tu relic, which belongs to the Hue ancient capital relic, is under restoration at the cost of over VND7 billion ($350,000).

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi Television Station (HTV) will air the Barclays English Premier League for free in the second consecutive year.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday called for Congress to act on his proposals to stimulate the economy and create jobs, emphasizing putting the American people first.

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Paper-made expensive motorbikes for the dead are assembled at Song Ho village in Thuan Thanh district, Hanoi’s neighboring province of Bac Ninh.

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 700 submissions for State prizes and titles in literature and the arts field have been submitted to the State Level Council, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Khanh Hai said.

The Circular No 13 on examining the imports with vegetation origins has been described as “doing more harm than good,” because it has been putting big difficulties for import companies, while it fails to prevent low quality imports.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Airlines on Wednesday started to sell air tickets for its flights during the coming Lunar New Year, or Tet, a time when demand for air travel within the country always surges.

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.