VietNamNet Bridge – To help passers-by and poor workers during hot summer days, some people in HCM City place free ice tea boxes along roads.

VietNamNet Bridge – According to the latest test of the UK’s Virus Bulletin laboratory, Vietnam’s Bkav has become one of the three best anti-virus software products in the world.

Unlike 2010, when domestic goldsmith companies could easily export gold under the form of preliminarily processed jewelry weighing several taels and more; in 2011, the companies have to further process gold before exporting.

The government of the U.S. state of Minnesota began a broad shutdown Friday after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach a deal to balance the state budget.

Serbian star Novak Djokovic will become the newly-crowned world No. 1 on Monday after beating Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the men's singles semifinals at the Wimbledon Championships on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese seafood companies have been surprised with the presence of a lot of Chinese businessmen at Vietfish 2011, the international seafood trade fair held on June 28-30.

VietNamNet Bridge – China attached importance to the traditional friendship with Viet Nam and committed itself together with the Vietnamese side to strengthen solidarity, co-operation and mutual support to write a glorious new chapter

VietNamNet Bridge - The nation’s tourism industry is going to focus on developing strong tourism brands in the next decade, particularly those targeted at foreign markets.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City's administration launched yesterday, July 1,  its latest effort to persuade large numbers of people to use public transportation and help ease traffic jams.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Food Administration announced on July 1 that Viet Nam would temporarily set a maximum threshold for the presence of a potentially cancer-causing chemical, commonly used in plastics,

VietNamNet Bridge – A symphony orchestra in which most of its members are instrumentalists and were born in the 1990s, has been established to introduce classical music works to the youth through a new style of performance.

Water is the soul of the southern city of Can Tho. It is combined into a network of streams and canals feeding the sweetest rice and the most varied fruit crops in Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viet An Trade Joint-stock Company, commonly known as VIIS via TV shopping programs, was found on Wednesday trading in copycats by using the brands of commodities whose copyrights are protected in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Banks that trade in gold must establish separate companies with independent accounts, according to theViet Nam Gold Trading Association (VGTA).

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese student-athletes, representing over 10 million students at junior and senior high schools nationwide, now take part in the third ASEAN Schools Games (ASG) in Singapore from July 1-7.

Vietnam has been importing too many kinds of products from China which can be made domestically. Vietnamese consumers have been unintentionally enriching Chinese enterprises.

Jazz master Nguyen Le to perform in Hanoi; Tripp down to Hanoi’s Le Club; Fahasa books on sale 10 days; Sea Village Festival to take place in August; MTV makes Vietnam debut; Asian Youth Orchestra to perform in Hanoi  

U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner has not made a decision to leave office while he is focusing now on the ongoing debt talks, a Treasury Department official told Xinhua on Thursday.

The United States and the Philippines have urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) to tackle current tensions in the East Sea when it meets later this month in Bali, Indonesia.

Gtel-Mobile, a joint venture between Global Telecommunications Corp. (Gtel) and Russian firm VimpelCom, has named a new general director in what appears to be a shakeup to prop up its poorly performing Beeline network.

Prosecutors agreed on Friday to release the former head of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, on his own recognizance.

The forest area and the biodiversity of the Cat Tien National Park has been in danger because of the “invasion” of the hydropower plant projects Dong Nai 5, Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A, which are under the preparation for construction.

Members of Agel Vietnam, a US-based multi-level marketing group has been on a knife’s edge over the last week when hearing that the group has withdrawn from Vietnam. Tens of thousands of people have lost their money because of the decision.

Over 800 businesses attend Vietbuild exhibition; Coastal Da Nang offers discounted summer vacations; Disbursed foreign investors poured $5.3b to VN in H1; Vietnam CPI rises 21 pct y-o-y; Deutsche Bank becomes major shareholder in FPT, PPC

Dr. Vu Cao Phan, a researcher of Vietnam-China relationships and Vice Chair of the Vietnam-China Friendship Association, said that Vietnamese leaders’ speeches are a self-defense reaction, not threats of war.