The HCMC Department of Natural Resources and Environment is now adjusting the action plan for climate change adaptation in 2011-2015, whose budget is also revised up to VND16 trillion from the previous estimate of VND12 trillion.

VietNamNet Bridge – “I should have given birth to duck eggs to sell for money rather than delivered of the one like you, who is not male or female”. Huy burst in tears when his mother said these words at the time she knew that her son is a gay.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday decried increased number of confirmed cholera cases in the Somalian capital Mogadishu, and growing reports of acute watery diarrhea in Kismayo and other crowded urban centers,

VietNamNet Bridge - Mobile service providers in Vietnam said they are not prepared to offer 4G services as they are more concerned with 3G services.

VietNamNet Bridge – The four jurymen worked very hard to choose 100 from 1,000 contestants.

VietNamNet Bridge – Something took place right in Hanoi--some parents blocked the way to prevent HIV infected children from entering schools and forced them to come back to their center.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade just announced it honoured export licences to 40 local firms and four joint ventures, while the Vietnam Food Association expected around 80 firms would receive the licences as of October 1, 2011.

Russian tourist commits suicide in Nha Trang; Urgent measures taken to combat hand-foot-mouth disease; ChildFund Australian builds a kindergarten for Bac Kan; Highway blocked for landslide, rolling stones

VietNamNet Bridge - Lieutenant General Do Ba Ty, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, on August 18 began an official visit to Cambodia at the invitation of the Cambodian Defence Ministry.

Recently crowning Vietnam’s scandalous bikini model Ngoc Trinh as its winner, Miss Vietnam Continents, a beauty pageant for Vietnamese nationalities across the world, has raised strong criticism of its credibility.

Future Shorts One August Screening; Music Space No 5 with Thu Phuong and Ha Anh Tuan; Apsara Dance Studio Opening Ceremony; Hue Printmaking Workshop; Screening of “Four Minutes"; Môtô Head Night

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese economists have expressed their concern about the investors’ and people’s confidence decline, stressing that the problem “is even more serious that any serious problem of the national economy.”

At least 50 people were killed and over 100 others were injured when a suicide bomb attack hit a mosque packed with hundreds of prayers in northwest Pakistan Friday afternoon, reported local Urdu TV channel Express.

VietNamNet talks with Nguyen Chinh Tam, the writer of a series of three analyses “Seeking a new order in the East Sea”, to make clear his idea of institutionalizing the East Sea disputes, in order to seek a reasonable and fair solution.

Economic laws to be revised for more liberal environment; Coffee sector is close to right blend; Bangladesh to import fuel oil from Vietnam; High petrol price outcry; Hanoi builds supporting industry park; PVN signs $95m loan agreement with Vung Ang

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Cong Vinh, Vietnam’s leading striker, said he would disclose the new destination after the game against Song Lam Nghe An FC.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam's bond market has experienced a significant year-on-year rise in growth during early 2011 compared with 2009 and 2010.

The Hanoi authorities have ordered an end to all unprompted gatherings, demonstrations and marches in the capital city after around ten spontaneous demonstrations against China’s intrusion of Vietnam’s sea and island sovereignty in the city. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Linh Nga, the most famous dancer in Vietnam, and her younger brother, Vietnamese two-chord fiddle player, performed together in a dance show entitled “Lotus” at the Hanoi Friendship Palace on August 15-16.

VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition painting by senior artists Dinh Cuong, Pham Van Hang, Hoang Trong Ban and Than Trong Minh, has opened at Tu Do Gallery in HCM City.

Major dailies in Vietnam in August 19 ran editorials highlighting the great significance of the August Revolution victory, which led to the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 66 years ago.

A controlled trial has found that Chinese herbal medicine decoction maxingshigan-yinqiaosan has a similar efficacy to oseltamivir in reducing time to fever resolution in people suffering mild H1N1 influenza virus infections.

VietNamNet Bridge – People are trying to build more and more hydropower plants to satisfy their thirst for power. However, when power plants are set up, the environment gets degrading and the tourism industry cannot develop.

Power shifts, interstate competition, military modernisation, institutional pressures: together, these factors are making Asia's waterways more contested, crowded and at risk of armed strife.

A series of terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Thursday left at least seven Israelis dead and several dozen others wounded.