The Egyptian authorities permanently opened the Rafah border crossing with the sieged Gaza Strip on Saturday, allowing the free passage of travellers for the first time in four years.

VietNamNet Bridge - Relevant ministries, sectors and authorities have been called upon to increase education regarding the negative affects of smoking and second-hand smoke, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan said.

VietNamNet Bridge - From a great idea, a strong passion, and a small sum of money, many groups of students in University of Technical Education HCMC have created many remarkable inventions. 

Commercial banks buy gold above market price; HSBC Vietnam to have new CEO; No time for backward steps Macro; Gemadept to plant rubber trees in Cambodia; Italian investors look for dolce vita in Vietnam  

An Egyptian court on Saturday decided to fine former President Hosni Mubarak and two ministers of his regime a total of 540 million Egyptian pounds for damaging the economy with cutting off the mobile and internet services

French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a 40-billion-U.S.-dollar aid package for Egypt and Tunisia at the end of the G8 summit on Friday as the club of economic powers joined a race against time to shore up the gains of the Arab changes.

State-owned groups and companies will have to declare their debts and assets, including gold, deposits, cheques, credit certificates, at funds and banks, from July this year if a new draft circular by the Ministry of Finance is approved.

Soccer's world governing body FIFA said on Friday that the organization's Ethics Committee extended a probe to include their own president Joseph Blatter.

Seven people including two senior police officers and three German soldiers were killed and nine others including provincial governor were injured as a suicide bomber targeted governor's office in northern Afghan province of Takhar's capital

Corruption signs found in losses of Vietnam's major shipbuilder; Concerted effort required for road safety: PM; WHO award for Dr. Ly Ngoc Kinh; Crime gang leader arrested in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta       

The majority of enterprises would contact commercial banks when they need capital to develop investment projects.

Acting Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, also ruling Democrat Party leader, is scheduled to launch its political campaign in the Northeast, a major stronghold of the opposition Pheu Thai Party and the anti-government red- shirts,

Phu Yen to host ASEAN music festival in June; Vietnam to attend Circuba 2011; US poet introduces Nguyen Trai poem collection; Pupils share their vision of the UK; Kids exposed to classical music

A U.S. state department delegation left here Saturday after a five-day visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

VietNamNet Bridge - Construction of the Van Phong International Port in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa has been suspended for one year with no indication of a resumption date.

VietNamNet Bridge – Writing autograph books, releasing paper-made aircrafts with their wishes, tears… are the scenes at the school-year closing ceremony of the 12th graders in Hanoi.

The authorities of Joplin city in the U.S. state of Missouri on Friday updated the death toll to 132 from the deadliest single tornado that battered the city in the evening of May 22.

Two U.S. astronauts conducted the fourth and final scheduled spacewalks for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission on Friday morning, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced.

VietNamNet Bridge - Much has been said about the impacts of dams on freshwater fish stocks in the Mekong River. However, the effects on marine fishery output also deserve thorough consideration.

VietNamNet Bridge - Researchers call for greater public awareness about the consequences of homophobic discrimination.

VietNamNet Bridge - Industrial production in the first five months of the year surged 14.2 per cent against the same period in 2010 to VND343.6 trillion (US$16.36 billion), the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.

Super cars are forecasted to continue flowing into Vietnam, despite the attempt by the Ministry of Industry and Trade to restrict imports, car dealers say.

The Ministry of Public Security Tuesday issued a new instruction banning police in the country from wearing black sunglasses, from smoking, from reading books and from putting their hands into pockets while on duty at public places.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Badminton Federation will hire a Danish coach for the national young team, said the federation’s Secretary General, Le Thanh Sang.

From May 27 to June 3, 2011, Vietnam will introduce its five world cultural heritages at the World Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition in China.