Myanmar President U Thein Sein met with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the President's Residence in Nay Pyi Taw Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Teachers say that they decide to become teachers because they love the job. However, the love alone does not allow them live and devote themselves to the teaching.

VietNamNet Bridge – The streams in Bien Hoa City of Dong Nai province are getting seriously polluted. They flow to the Dong Nai River which is the water supply source for millions of local residents.

The Vietnam’s telecom market has developed to the threshold with which it is very difficult to develop more mobile phone subscribers. However, foreign investors still believe that there are still a lot of business opportunities here.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde on Wednesday welcomed the joint action of the world's major central banks to provide cheaper dollar funding to European banks.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Government should cut down 50 percent of the existing regulations and re-consider its role: control or promote development? This is the content of the recent talks between VietNamNet and experts.

Crude prices on Thursday retreated from the high boosted by joint intervention of six major western central banks, as European woes lingered and concerns over Iran nuclear program eased.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday confirmed that if he wins the 2012 presidential election, outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev would replace him in the new government.

Egypt's Prime Minister-designate Kamal al-Ganzouri said on Thursday the new government will hopefully be formed on Saturday.

Russia sees no reasons to stop its arms exports to Syria, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi Department of Transport proposes to ban all vehicles in 10 streets in the central city from early next year, the department director, Nguyen Quoc Hung, said on Tuesday.

Nearly all the high quality products which have high sales have been counterfeited. Businesses have lost billions of dong because of the counterfeit goods, while state management agencies still fumble in the fight against counterfeiters.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of readers have emailed to VietNamNet to criticize the jury of the “Just Two of Us” TV show after the semi-final. They asked to have a new jury.

The U.S. federal government requires Facebook to respect its users' privacy and solve related issues, according to media reports on Thursday.

U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday that his administration is committing an addition 50 million U.S. dollars in funding for domestic HIV/AIDS treatment and care.

Health authorities are investigating an outbreak of Hepatitis C in east and central China in which the reuse of needles by an unlicensed doctor is suspected as the cause.

ICE tourism up significantly, says travel company; HCM City among top 10 in Asia for real estate investment; Investment rules to be tightened countries to be tightened; Three firms fined for forex violations; No tax breaks for Hyundai plant  

Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich on Dec. 1 visited Ho Chi Minh City as part of his official visit to Vietnam.

The funeral of Most Venerable Thich Thanh Tu, Vice President of the Vietnam Buddhist Shangha’s Executive Council, was held at Hanoi’s Quan Su pagoda on November 30, with the participation of thousands of people and Buddhists

Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam front leaders meet in Phnom Penh; Leaders to visit Cambodia, Europe; Vietnamese NA delegation attends IPU hearing in New York

James Murdoch has been re-elected BSkyB chairman with more than three quarters of shareholders' votes, amid calls for his resignation due to the phone-hacking scandle in his defunct tabloid.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local authorities are searching for a new habitat for the critically endangered Indochinese silvered langur (or Trachypithecus germaini), to save the species from extinction.

Most of the insurance companies which “join hands” with foreign strategic partners are the “big cheeses”. Therefore, they do not aim to have more capital when inviting foreigners’ cooperation, but they expect the technology transfer.

Travel agents are offering many attractive tours for Christmas and New Year holidaymakers.

U.S. stocks soared on Wednesday, with major indexes hitting a two-week high, after the world's major central banks took coordinated action to boost liquidity in the world financial system.