The Wall Street opened broadly lower on Monday, the first trading day after Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. triple-A credit rating, with the NASDAQ and The Standard & Poor's 500 tumbling over 2 percent.

“How to turn the marine strategy into reality” is the topic of the talks between VietNamNet and Dr. Chu Hoi, vice chief of the General Department of Sea and Islands and Dr. Tran Dinh Thien, director of the Central Economic Management Institute.

Imported goods’ prices drop as dollar depreciates; NA passes tax incentives; Chinese firms get $1.3 bln power plant deal in Vietnam; USD 1.3 bln to build Duyên Hải 3 thermal plant; Vietnam among top gold-consuming countries  

More than 1,500 people were evacuated Monday from a clothes market in Russia's Samara city for a bomb threat, reported Interfax news agency.

VietNamNet Bridge - The new government for 2011-2016 will continue to make administrative reforms a key task. The newly-elected Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc tells why.

Typhoon Muifa passing over South Korea along its west coast left at least four dead and two others missing, the country's emergency management agency said Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam's rice exports in the first seven months rose to a record high of nearly 4.62 million tonnes and fetched US$2.18 billion, the Viet Nam Food Association reported.

VietNamNet Bridge - Last week's stock market trades were the first to take place since Circular No 74 took effect on August 1, allowing investors to buy and sell the same shares within a single session.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Phuong Anh, a 18-year-old student from Hungary, was crowned Miss Vietnam in Europe 2011 after overcoming 21 other beauties in the final round held in Berlin, Germany, on August 6.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the morning of August 7, the festival of breast-feeding mothers took place at the Vietnam Exhibition and Fair Center in Hanoi.

To date, many universities and colleges still have not officially announced the required minimum marks, because they still have to consider thoroughly amid the fear that many students, though passing the exams, would not enter the schools.

VietNamNet Bridge – Car importers have admitted that with the newly released regulations on car imports management, it is very difficult to bring luxurious cars to Vietnam. However, they do not intend to “give up the games.”

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese comedy and action movie Long Ruoi will be premiered on August 26 along with many blockbusters from Hollywood and Korea that will hit the Vietnamese cinemas this month.

VietNamNet Bridge - There will be not be any energy sources which could be used to replace nuclear power in Vietnam by the year 2050, said Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai.

Auscham seeks beneficiaries of fundraisers; My Son relics logo contest launched; Museum receives Spratlys coral map; Vietnamese horror film earns $315,000; Traditional crafts introduced in Hanoi's Old Quarter; Vegetarian festival     

VietNamNet Bridge – The Politburo and the Party Central Standing Committee have assigned High-ranking General, Le Hong Anh, to hold the permanent membership of the Party Central Secretariat.

VietNamNet Bridge - A vessel traffic services system (VTS) applying advanced technologies to manage and ensure maritime safety is expected to be implemented at seaports nationwide, firstly at national and international ones.

VietNamNet Bridge - Environmental police caught Sonadezi Service JS Company, a state-owned waste-treatment plant in the southern province of Dong Nai Province, discharging poorly-treated wastewater into a canal that flows into the Dong Nai River.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of people walked around Hanoi’s Thien Quang Lake in the morning of August 7 to raise fund for Agent Orange victims.

VietNamNet Bridge - Accor said in a statement Thursday it would more than double the number of hotel rooms of its Novotel brand in Vietnam in the next two years to meet rising demands.

VietNamNet Bridge – According to Russian newspapers, Vedette-boat Dinh Tien Hoang (named after a Vietnamese king), which was built by Zelenodolsk Gorky has landed at Cam Ranh Military Port in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

The European Central Bank (ECB) held a conference call late on Sunday ahead of the market opening, pledging the ECB will step in to buy eurozone bonds with efforts to forestall the euro zone's debt crisis from spreading.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 52,000 flats in Ha Noi which the State built before doi moi (renewal) in 1986 and offered to transfer to individual ownership have not been sold due to disputes or problems with plans and procedures.

VietNamNet Bridge – An 800-member delegation, including 560 athletes, is expected to represent Viet Nam at the 26th Southeast Asian Games to be held in Indonesia on November 11-22.

Work slows on upgrade of dilapidated housing; 5 killed in Hue bus-truck smash-up; Experts discuss land planning; Student hospitalized after brutal attack by militia