VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam had been working closely with China to determine the pesticide contained in fruit and vegetables imported from China,

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that the country is taking a "smart power" approach to dealing with Libya and Syria.

Dr. John William Snow, the 73rd US Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman of the Cerberus Capital Management group, will pay a visit to Vietnam in September, according to Link World Ltd.

VietNamNet Bridge – Maximum amounts of fines for violations related to environmental health and preventive medicine have increased under a new government decree which will take effect later this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – At a conference held in the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City by the Ministry of Health on August 15, Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien declared that the hand-foot-mouth disease has now turned into a full fledged epidemic

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's Truong Thanh Hang has been tipped to break the national record and reach the Olympic B standard at the World Athletics Championship later this month in South Korea.

The White House announced Tuesday that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to 510 million U.S. dollars in partnership with the private sector to facilitate the country's biofuel industry development.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Irrawaddy dolphin population in the Mekong River numbers roughly 85, with the survival of new calves very low, suggesting they are at high risk of extinction, environmental group WWF said Wednesday.

Officials launch labour, employment database; Italian doctor to fix genital defects in children; Soldiers’ remains repatriated from Cambodia; 3 HCM City firms flout waste rules

A lot of real estate project assignment deals where buyers are foreigners have been reported so far this year, while the number is expected to increase towards the end of the year since the assignments.

France and Germany proposed more united regulation on financial market to guarantee growth during a bilateral summit Tuesday at the Elysee Palace, amid fears of worsening eurozone debt crisis and slowing economic growth in both states.

VietNamNet Bridge – Multi award winning UK folk musician Jim Moray, dubbed by Billboard magazine as "the future of British folk", will hit the stage in Ha Noi on Friday night.

South Korea, Viet Nam parties strengthen ties; State President meets outstanding young police; Builders of national frontier patrol route honoured

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will play Singapore in the opening match of the Southeast Asian Women's Football Championship in Laos this October.

VietNamNet Bridge – A review of HCM City's entire school network should be undertaken so that urgent needs would be identified and action taken, a senior city legislator said yesterday, Aug 16.

VietNamNet Bridge – Solid houses have been built for nearly 9,000 of 240,000 poor households in the Mekong Delta provinces as the first step to eliminating make-shift houses in the area, the programme's Steering Committee

VietNamNet Bridge – Co-operation in combating the drug trade along the East-west Economic Corridor topped discussions between Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand at a conference which opened in central Quang Tri Province today, Aug 17.

VietNamNet Bridge –Young cyclist Le Van Dong won the third stage of the Mekong Delta Cycling Tour-An Giang Plant Protection Cup yesterday, Aug 16.

Vietnamese scientists are moving ahead with the projects on using insects to kill pests. The very normal living beings like bees, ladybugs, stinkbugs, or dragonflies have been used to kill pests to help develop agricultural production.

Four friends join forces at Tu Do; Project aims for better conservation of Old Quarter; Vietnam holds cultural weeks in Russia, Ukraine; Sculptures on show at Museum of Fine Arts; Missile Cave recognized as historical remains

VietNamNet Bridge – It's Friday afternoon. A group of young men sit quietly on their motorbikes or on benches at a corner of the September 23 Park in the heart of HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – In 2006, Vu Thi Nguyet Anh brought fame to Vietnam when she won the valuable gold medal for Vietnam at the Asian Games (Asiad) in Qatar. Now, the former Asiad champion is abandoned with injuries.

VietNamNet Bridge – Erosion of riverbanks in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta poses a serious threat this year, experts warn.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam tourism tries its best to lure more Japanese tourists, especially after the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March this year have abated.

The climate change has caused saltwater infiltration into the Mekong River Delta, which has been threatening the aquatic and agricultural gene resources of the biggest rice grainary.