VietNamNet Bridge – The national U16 team has got together at the National Youth Football Training Centre in Ha Noi to prepare for Southeast Asia U16 Football (AFF U16) Championships taking place in Vientiane, Laos, from July 7-20.

Party General Secretary and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong left Ha Noi, together with his wife, today on an official visit to Laos at the invitation of General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party

VietNamNet Bridge - Seafood processors are facing a severe shortage of raw materials and have called on the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to make concrete plans to resolve this.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Co (HAG) has raised $90 million from successful bond issuance in the Singaporean market for its new hydropower and rubber plantation projects in Vietnam and Laos.

VietNamNet Bridge – A storm is expected to hit the northern coast, according to the National Hydro Meteorology Forecasting Centre.

VietNamNet Bridge – The East Sea is great potential in oil and gas, many rare metals and one of the five areas with high reserves of methane hydrate, said Prof. Dr. Tran Nghi from the Hanoi University of Natural Sciences’ Geology Faculty.

The size of low-oxygen zones created by respiring bacteria is extremely sensitive to changes in depth caused by oscillations in climate, thus posing a distant threat to marine life, a new study suggests.

Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and Singapore all call for seeking a peaceful solution and using the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to settle disputes in the East Sea.

VietNamNet Bridge – Experts and E5 petrol distributors have urged the government to take drastic measures to encourage the use of biofuels.

VietNamNet Bridge – Taking abuse of the language barrier, many foreigners do not wear helmets while riding motorbikes in Hanoi streets.

VietNamNet Bridge - Northern folk singing will be introduced as an official bachelor subject at the Faculty of Heritage Music, set up in 2007 and part of the Hue Music Academy.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi authorities have licensed the West Lake Co., Ltd to pilot tramcar project in the West Lake.

The Japanese gaming company Sega Corp. said in a statement on Sunday some personal information from more than 1.2 million registered users had been stolen after the website of its subsidiary based in Britain was hacked.

Vung Tau approves 30 new projects; New SSC draft guidelines to continue margin lending ratio; Law to protect consumer interests; Demand on the rise for pharmaceutical imports; Government sells $29m in 10-year bonds

“Publicizing information and showing clear attitude to create unity is the vital factor to defend the country. The people must believe that the State has sufficiently firm stuff, experience and international relations to defend sovereignty”.

The HIV/AIDS patients in the U.S. state of Florida are in dispute with state authorities over a proposal to impose tighter restrictions on those who qualify for drugs provided by the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, in the resort city of Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has been carrying a tumor weighing 80kg on his right leg for 10 years. The tumor still keeps developing.

European football's governing body (UEFA) said on Friday that they want FIFA to reform within three months to deal with the corruption crisis.

Although the Government sets the target of trade deficit over export revenue ratio at 16% this year, the trade gap figure in the first five months of 2011 amounted to US$6.6 billion, accounting for 19% of export revenue .

VietNamNet Bridge - Marine tourism development should be linked closely to national defence and security, Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism director- general Nguyen Van Tuan said yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Food insecurity will no longer be a threat to the country, and rice production should shift focus to emerging challenges to achieve sustainability, heard a conference yesterday in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

VietNamNet Bridge - Prices of burial plots in Ho Chi Minh City and the two adjacent provinces of Binh Duong and Long An are increasing significantly and in a shortage despite the frozen property market. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s telco industry has experienced tremendous growth over the last two years, but growth is expected to slow as the telco industry begins to mature.

The Blythe Solar Power Project, the largest solar energy plant in the world, broke ground Friday in Riverside County, Southern California.

VietNamNet Bridge - Six footballers of Pham Gia Auto team will play for Thailand's Lampang United and Bangkok FC in the Thai futsal (indoor football) League, the team said yesterday.