VietNamNet Bridge – A creative environmental protection campaign is changing the way that Viet Nam's national parks and conservancies are caring for the country's precious natural heritage.

VietNamNet Bridge – More people are illegally occupying canals in HCM City, but authorities have not carried out the necessary work to stop the violations.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has released a decision allowing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to delay the 2011 corporate income tax payment by one year. However, what SMEs need now is not the right to delay the tax payment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thach Kim Tuan will be the sole Vietnamese representative at the World Youth Weightlifting Championships, scheduled to kick off in Penang, Malaysia, on June 30.

The Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol has approved non-refundable aid worth US$10 million for Vietnam’s program to phase out the ozone-denting chemical hydrochlorofluorocarbon in 2012-16.

Vietnam eyes e-government development;  Deputy PM boosts relations with Cuba; Vietnam, Cambodia boost legislative exchanges; Vietnam, Indonesia boost agricultural cooperation

VietNamNet Bridge – Striker Nguyen Ngoc Thanh and goalkeeper Nguyen Manh Dung will be participating in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers' training session, according to the Viet Nam Football Federation.

In response to questions about the two-day live-fire naval exercise off Hon Ong Islet which wrapped up yesterday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Nguyen Phuong Nga said the Viet Nam People's Navy did not conduct drills in the East Sea

VietNamNet Bridge - David Cook and Alexandra Burke, the winners of the American Idol and X-Factor (Britain), arrived in Vietnam on June 14, to sing in the H-Artistry concert in Hanoi on June 15.

After raging in southern and central provinces, causing 17 deaths, hand-foot-mouth disease has spread to Hanoi, with a new type of virus which is more dangerous.  

Hanoi hosts int’l conference on drug and HIV/AIDS; Accidents kill 2, injure 9 in central provinces; Reporters on duty assaulted; Reporters on duty assaulted

A heavy explosion rocked east the Libyan capital of Tripoli late Tuesday evening, causing a big fire, with helicopters of the NATO forces hovering over the area, a Xinhua correspondent said.

VietNamNet Bridge –Viet Nam and Japan finalised an official direct assistance (ODA) loan worth nearly JPY41 billion (approximately US$508 million) at a ceremony yesterday, June 14, in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – A herd of five elephants trampled crops over the past three days as they searched for food near the centre of Ma Da Commune in the southern province of Dong Nai.

VietNamNet Bridge – FIFA had approved the fourth phase of a project to nurture football in Viet Nam, a source from the Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The emergence of more women in the corporate world has caused some controversy and public concern.

Newly-elected National Assembly Deputy, Phan Van Quy said he highly appreciated deputies who speak frankly, but to solve a matter; with many ways of approach.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi Metropole chef Do Chi Cong won first prize at the first Bocuse d'Or food contest held in Nha Trang city on Monday.

Many Vietnamese Internet users have used pictures of naval soldiers as their avatars on Yahoo Messenger and Facebook, accompanied with the text “Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) belong to Vietnam”.

Experts from Wildlife At Risk (WAR) have discovered Taylor’s bug-eyed frogs (Theloderma Stellatum), which is in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in the forest of Quang Ngai province in central Vietnam.  

Eight people were killed and six other injured after a truck exploded at a gas station Tuesday afternoon in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities said.

Interest rates top concerns among industry; Seafood exports expected to hit US$8 bil by 2020; Highway project opened to investors; Vietnam’s biggest oil platform installed

VietNamNet Bridge – Unable to “sustain life”, a lot of companies which make opensource software had to shut down their business, while many opensource software products have disappeared from the market.

Hundreds of youngsters called the names of singers of Korean JYJ band, Korean actress Han Hye Jin and Korean football star Park Ji Sung when Korean celebrities appeared at a sports center in HCM City, to meet with Vietnamese children on June 14.

Numerous ships and few goods have forced domestic fleets to “eat the bread of idleness”. The appearance of foreign “big guys” on domestic transportation routes has pushed many Vietnamese ship owners to the verge of bankruptcy.