Hospital pharmacies to sell lower than market rate; Asia media summit closes; Helmets, lifejackets mandatory for students; African Day celebrated in Vietnam; Special visits for needy children         

VietNamNet Bridge - Appointed Ambassador of Vietnam to the US Nguyen Quoc Cuong expressed his strong belief in the bright future of the friendship and partnership between the US and Vietnam, committing his whole tenure to that future.

To date, two years after the day when 3G technology was officially developed in Vietnam, none of the five mobile network service providers who are providing 3G services, has released the information about the existing numbers of 3G subscribers.

After one month, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Vietnam Youth Union Central Committee have received 145 applications for the project to recruit 600 young vice chairs for 62 poor districts in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Cobras in four bags were found on a Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi train on May 26.

Japanese automaker Honda on Thursday announced plans for the accelerated recovery of its auto production in North America, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan seriously disrupted auto parts supply.

Eating kiwifruit might be a much better way of getting vitamin C into your system than taking purified vitamin supplements, according to research from New Zealand.

Italian artists to perform Tosca in Hanoi; Vietnam, Mongolia cooperate in writing; Seminar on Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia fine arts; Korean artworks on show in Hanoi; Acrobats, puppets to perform Gulliver’s Travels    

VietNamNet Bridge - Host Song Lam Nghe An were knocked out with a 3-1 loss to Persipura from Indonesia at the second-round qualifiers of the Asian Football Cup (AFC) on May 25.

While securities investors feel depressed about the continued fall of the VN Index, the State Securities Commission (SSC) does not think that it is necessary to intervene in the market at this moment.

HCM City on May 26, made public the list of 95 winners of the People’s Council election (2011-2016 tenure), which took place on May 22. Three of them are female artists.

NASA's space telescope Spitzer have observed olivine falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, it was announced on Thursday.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday dismissed comment on the qualification of incumbent Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF),

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vam Sat Mangrove Forest is a part of the Can Gio mangrove ecosystem covering an area of 1,862ha about 55km to the southeast of HCM City.

Before officially stopping its direct aid to Vietnam in 2016, the UK’s non-refundable aid for Vietnam by 2015, will reach £70 million (around US$114 million), according to an agreement side on May 26.  

No considerable progress has made over the last year, since the day the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) asked general schools to teach swimming to students as a part of the program, “Vietnamese can swim”.

Miss Vietnam World 2010, Diem Huong; the second runner-u, Victoria Thuy Vy and Miss Grandslam Asia 2009, Tran Thi Huong Giang, on May 25 and 26, left Vietnam to Thailand to participate in the Miss Thailand Beach International 2011 pageant.

VietNamNet Bridge – During the Ramanda month, Cham people in the southern province of An Giang gather at mosques in their villages to review their behaviors.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Islamabad on unannounced visit on Friday to remove the mistrust caused by unilateral action by the U.S. forces to kill Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad

VietNamNet Bridge – About 1.5 million students will sit for the national high school graduation examinations from June 2-4 this year, the same number as last year, says the Ministry of Education and Training.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two-time V-League champions Dong Tam Long An (DTLA) face the risk of relegation to the First Division after nine years in the top-flight.

Actress Lindsay Lohan began her 35 days of house arrest after turning herself in at a Lynwood detention center early Thursday morning, authorities said.

African swine fever, a viral disease deadly to pigs but harmless to human beings, is spreading beyond Russia and the Caucasus region into Europe, the United Nations' food agency said Thursday.

German health officials said Thursday that cucumbers imported from Spain was one source of a recent deadly E. coli outbreak in northern states that killed three people and made hundreds sick.

VietNamNet Bridge – Supermarkets are always full of customers on all the days of the weeks, while markets are poorly patronized. Housewives tend to turn their back to traditional markets with old sales methods.