VietNamNet Bridge – Swine flu, hand-foot-mouth disease, and respiratory diseases have been either spreading to or worsening in many provinces, health officials warned.

While playing very well at the Capablanca Memorial 2011 chess tournament in Cuba, Vietnam’s top chess player, Le Quang Liem gained higher Elo to enter the world’s 40 international super-grandmaster of chess.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese traders continue to be positive about future prospects, expecting trading volume to increase over the next six months, according to the latest HSBC Trade Confidence Index report released on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Young cyclist Do Tuan Anh of Domesco Dong Thap 1 won the fifth and final stage while Le Van Duan of Sai Gon Plant Protection 1 won the overall yellow jersey of the "Return to the Roots" race yesterday, May 19.

All pharmaceutical companies in Viet Nam, using natural ingredients in the production of their products, are required to meet the World Health Organisation's Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standard by January 1, 2014

VietNamNet Bridge - With leading software companies signing a slew of foreign contracts, the industry is eyeing a 60 per cent growth rate this year.

Viet Nam had been slow in dealing with overseas adoption cases for orphans and abandoned children with special needs, experts said at a workshop on a pilot programme to support overseas adoption for children

Hollywood's A-listers have bid a star-studded farewell to Oprah Winfrey in a double-taping of her talk show at Chicago's United Center.

Vietnam joins world baking competition; Live music, DJ show in HCMC to feature int'l artists; Top design entrepreneur sought for int’l UK contest; Australian wine and food show in Caravelle      

VietNamNet Bridge – The information that airlines have raised the airfares for domestic routes is really bad news, not only to passengers who have to pay more money to fly, but also to ticket booking agents and travel firms.

A New York Judge granted bail for 1 million U.S. dollars for former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Thursday.

Anti-government "red-shirt" leader said Thursday the mass rally to commemorate last year's protest in downtown Bangkok will be peaceful.

VietNamNet Bridge – The body of Mr. Dinh Cong Hao, who died in 1968, doesn’t disintegrate. His family put the body into a coffin with a glass cover and placed the coffin in their house for 43 years.

Google on Wednesday began fixing a security hole in some 97 percent of Android phones that could let hackers snatch important credentials at public WiFi hotspots.

VietNamNet Bridge – The draft decree on the operation of financial leasing companies has been facing strong opposition from financial leasing companies which believe that the draft decree has “unreasonable provisions”.

Low demand for domestic made clothes; Rubber second highest agro export product ; Major German state highlights Vietnam’s investment climate; Vietnam-US trade turnover increases by nearly 20 pct  

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has finalized its process to recruit a new coach for the men’s national football squad, and the selected candidate is Falko Goetz, former coach of Germany’s Hertha Berlin FC.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 100 photos featuring love for life are now displayed at the “Leica – Live” exhibition, which opened on May 18, at 29 Hang Bai Street, Hanoi.

Up to 25 people were killed and some 70 others wounded when a bomb and a car bomb exploded coordinately in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday, a local police source told Xinhua.

Famous Belgian writer joins Vietnam comics festival; Capital prepares for classics; Thanh Hoa to restore former revolutionaries’ shelter; S Korean scholars share views on Ho Chi Minh  

VietNamNet Bridge – Software companies which are believed to make up 50% of the success of the projects on developing ICT applications for state agencies, complain that they are encountering many difficulties due to unreasonable policies.

The European Film Festival 2011 returns to satisfy cinema lovers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Green Drinks 2011; Concert with World-Famous Conductor Lior Shambadal; Chamber Music Concert; Videologue – A Brief Report on Japanese Video Art; Opera “Carmen”

 Celebrating President Ho Chi Minh’s 121st birthday (May 19), three photo exhibitions of his life are organized in his hometown - Kim Lien commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An province, Hanoi’s Ho Chi Minh Museum and Hue city.

VietNamNet Bridge – A pharmaceutical and an auditing firm in the central city of Da Nang have been detected to use cracked software by inspectors of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Hi-tech Crime Prevention Police Bureau.