VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam finished in the top spot at the HCM City Open International Track and Field Tournament with eight gold medals.

VietNamNet Bridge – Renowned Thai and Vietnamese saxophonists will perform tonight, Aug 5, at the HCM City Opera House to celebrate the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries (August 6, 1976-2011).

Ministry proposes coffee board; Deputy PM orders speeding up on competitive power market project; US company to design 79-storey tower in Hanoi; Goods, services sales value up 5% this year; Vietnam 2011 bad debt could rise to 5 pct of loans   

In order to compete with iPads, desktops and laptops have been upgraded to turn into the effective office and entertainment tools.

Vietnam’s tourism should be introduced to the world as an open, self-confident tourism which bears distinct, endless and dynamic beauty.

Analysts have pointed out that even if the interest rate goes down to zero percent, the developers would still “die” because of the rapidly increasing input costs and the big volume of unsalable products.

Renovating syllabus, changing the teaching and learning methods are the things that historians believe need to be done immediately in order to “rescue a new Vietnamese generation bad at history”

There are babies who are abandoned when they are not taken shape yet. Some are outcast immediately after birth. More and more babies are desolated like that by mothers who are workers at southern industrial zones.

Russia hopes to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the end of 2011, but would not yield to Georgia's political demands as a price, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.

“Some said that the plan to build the West Lake – Ba Vi road benefits estate projects, but I know no project along this road has operated,” said Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Dinh Toan.

Google's top legal officer on Wednesday posted a scathing blog post, accusing Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and other companies of waging "bogus" patent wars over smartphone technologies.

A device attached to a terrified Sydney teenager for 10 hours on Wednesday was a fake, police have confirmed on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Several chartered flights from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to the central coast city of Danang have either been canceled or delayed due to falling travel demand, said the local tour operator catering to such flights.

Vietnam’s top striker Le Cong Vinh has been granted the “Best Footballer of the Month” title of the V-League 2011.

English theatre brings Shakespeare to Vietnam; K-POP singing contest to be launched in Vietnam; Buddhist architectural traces uncovered; HCM City gets new tourism slogan

General Phung Quang Thanh told the media on August 3 that Vietnam will have a submarine brigade in five to six years to defend the country. The brigade will consist of six Kilo 636-class subs, he said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The sixth National Youth Archery Championships 2011 is scheduled to kick off in the southern province of Vinh Long tomorrow, Aug 5.

The State Securities Commission (SSC) has proposed to delay the plans to withdraw capital from enterprises, stressing that this is a necessary move to restrict the securities supply to the stock market which remains lackluster.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is trying to catch the eyes of more Japanese investors.

VietNamNet Bridge - An exhibition of historical jade statues opened in Hanoi on August 2.

There was no beating and trampling by Hanoi authorities of people who participated in a demonstration on July 17, 2011, the Investigation Police Agency under Hanoi Police Department confirmed on August 2.

Malaysian travel firms and their counterparts in Vietnam have discussed cooperation in developing and promoting eco-tourism and adventure packages as well as attracting more Vietnamese travelers to new destinations in Malaysia.

NASA Tuesday confirmed a 4-foot in diameter sphere debris as a fuel tank that was part of the space shuttle Columbia's electrical power system, according to U.S. news reports.

The information that another mammoth project worth more than four billions dollars has been registered and immediately caught the special attention from the public, because it appears at the time when many other giant projects have to shut down.

The annual number of new HIV infections in the United States was relatively stable at approximately 50,000 new infections each year between 2006 and 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's first multi- year estimates