President Nguyen Minh Triet and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on July 12, sent congratulatory messages to Philippine President Benigno Aquino on the 35th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Viet Nam and the Philippines.

The Saigon River has become more and more seriously polluted due to the increasingly high volume of untreated water discharged to the river every day.

 President extends sympathies to Russia; France, Vietnam boost cooperation in various fields; Friendship with Laos celebrated; Deputy PM receives Chinese Ambassador

VietNamNet Bridge – Discrimination hinders millions of disabled people in Viet Nam from exercising their basic right for a healthy sex life.

VietNamNet Bridge –Preventive medicine centres have done a poor job of preventing the outbreak of dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth disease in children in HCM City, according to city officials.

VietNamNet Bridge – South Korea's Kim You-ri won the third stage of the National Women's Open Cycling Tournament, An Giang Television Cup, yesterday, July 12.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People's Committee has submitted a draft to the Government proposing support policies to help employees at foreign-invested enterprises whose owners have fled the country.

VietNamNet Bridge –Farmers in many central provinces have been destroying protective forests in order to grow cassava, the price of which has doubled, ever since the end of last year.

Russia on Tuesday mourned the victims of the tragic sinking of the Bulgaria cruise ship on the Volga river, while divers were still working underwater to salvage more bodies from the Volga river.

VietNamNet Bridge –The Ministry of Transport has reviewed and halted construction on 68 State budget and Government bond-funded projects with a combined budget of over VND1.2 trillion (US$58.6 million).

Semester in army (SIA) has rapidly become the hottest program among the programs on practicing life skills now are in fashion among urban youth. However, educators have rung the alarm bell over the loosen control over the type of training. 

Dozens of residents in Hien Ninh commune in Quang Ninh district of the Quang Binh province are struck by lightening annually. The greatest wish of locals is to “drive away” lightning to live in peace.

No increase in petrol prices: ministries; Foreign medicine prices increase again; Foreign direct investment declines; Vinacomin defends recent coal imports; Mekong Delta's post-harvest rice losses hit $635m; Market access can ease rural poverty    

The fact that the investor of the Phu My Bridge project has proposed to “give back” the project to the HCM City People’s Committee, shows that BOT mode does not always bring fat profits to investors as previously thought.

A blast in a passenger bus killed at least 10 persons Tuesday in Rawalpindi near Pakistani capital Islamabad, local media reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – The U-13 Binh Dinh football team will represent Viet Nam at the ASEAN U-13 Football Championship in Thailand held from July 15-18.

Manhattan District Attorney and lawyers for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ex-chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn agreed on Monday to postpone the next court hearing in the sexual assault case to Aug. 1 from July 18.

While smart city is now a growing trend in the world, investors in Vietnam still seem to “forget” to equip construction works with powerful information technology infrastructure to create new smart urban areas.

Mentioning China’s casuistry “anything that is related to my name, it’s mine”, one commented ironically: “The sea is called South China Sea, so it belongs to China? Similarly, the Indian Ocean will belong to India?”.

Vietnam scored a victory Monday in its first challenge at the World Trade Organization against the United States over anti-dumping measures imposed by Washington on frozen shrimps.

VietNamNet Bridge – The sound of engines and amazing aerial aerobatics by miniature planes of two clubs from the central cities of Da Nang and Hue, attracted local residents and tourists on Lang Co beach.

Instead of implementing an experimental program in five provinces in 2011-2012, with 100 members; Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to expand the program to 20 provinces, with 600 members.

VietNamNet Bridge – After nearly 40 years, the list of more than 4,000 martyrs in the 81-day battle of 1972, in the ancient citadel of Quang Tri province, has been made public in the single-copy book entitled “Legends of Quang Tri Ancient Citadel”.

Vietnamese artists perform in Philippines; British Council Vietnam to launch Art Fund; Website for social campaigns launched; Korean star to visit Vietnam for charity work; Vietnam’s children chorus wins three prizes in Germany;

The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has confirmed early Tuesday that at least 65 were killed in Sunday's ship sinking in the Volga River.