VietNamNet Bridge – Preparations for the upcoming election on Sunday are complete, said Tran Huu Thang, deputy minister of home affairs on an online conference in Ha Noi yesterday, May 16.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi-based football club T&T will don Kappa sportswear in the V-League as of next week, the team's managing board said.

VietNamNet Bridge - IC Energy late last week broke ground  on a $390 million solar photovoltaic production facility in central Vietnam, just two months after the US-based First Solar, Inc. started work on a similar plant in Ho Chi Minh City.

VietNamNet Bridge – The annual Sen Village Festival will be held in the home village of President Ho Chi Minh on May 23-24 to celebrate his 121st birthday, which falls on May 19.

Chinese scientists said Saturday that they have found a new species of giant theropod dinosaur in the eastern province of Shandong.

From 24-hour complaint hotlines to instant additive detectors, local governments in China are striving to battle the illegal use of food additives following a string of food scandals.

Thousands of Palestinians and Syrians participated Monday in the funeral procession of three Palestinians killed during clashes between Israeli troops and Arab protesters on the Golan Heights.

NASA has readied the space shuttle Endeavour for its liftoff set for Monday, media reported Monday.

Individual efforts lead fish back to Mekong Delta; Binh Dinh Province benefits from Healthcare program; 8 million Vietnamese are infertile; Australian education exhibition in Hanoi, HCMC; Central region aims to beat the heat    

Over 350 people were injured on Monday in violence after a protest erupted outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo to mark the 63rd anniversary for the Palestinian Nakba Day.

This weekend tunes out to be a time when the superhero from "Thor" held on to his crown with a big hammer, grossing a total of 100 million dollars in sales in North America, the box office authority reported on Sunday.

Labour exports to Japan see good signs; Bkav unveils Bkav 2011 equipped with Safe Run; CapitaLand invests in apartment block; Chamber creates subcontractor centre; Gold alloy on market not pure

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese businesses prove to be too credulous; therefore, in many cases, they incurred complete losses in doing business with Chinese enterprises.

The United States has reached the statutory debt limit and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged the Congress to lift the debt ceiling to ensure global confidence, said the Treasury Department on Monday.

A flight of Cathay Pacific bound for Jakarta turned back to Singapore's Changi Airport about 45 minutes after taking off from the airport on Monday, as one of its engines caught fire, the airline and the airport confirmed.

The International Monetary Fund ( IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed without bail over alleged sexual assault, a New York judge said here on Monday.

Joining other nations, Vietnam last week launched a global effort to reduce road traffic accidents that kill around 1.3 million people a year and leave around 50 million others injured or permanently disabled.

VietNamNet Bridge - The first runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2010 pageant, Vu Thi Hoang My, will represent Vietnam at this year’s Miss Universe beauty pageant in Sao Paulo, Brazil this September.

A lingering drought in central China's Hubei Province has rendered 1,392 reservoirs virtually useless as only dead water remains in them, said the local water authority Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Summer is here. The rice is almost ripe. If you don’t know where to go, let’s go to Mu Cang Chai, the home of terraced fields, to admire ripening rice.

Japan's Chubu Electric Power Co. completely shut down the Hamaoka nuclear plant Saturday following a request last week by Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan to suspend the plant in Shizuoka Prefecture for safety concern.

Egyptian former President Hosni Mubarak's wife, Suzanne Thabet, was moved to an intensive care unit after suffering a heart attack on Friday, the Egyptian state TV reported.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Industry and Trade will permit sugar importers to fulfill import plans under a current import quota of 250,000 tonnes.

VietNamNet Bridge - Businesses are facing a million-dollar question these days: whether to continue to borrow from banks since interest rates have gone through the roof.

VietNamNet Bridge - For the last ten years, hundreds of heritage homes in Hanoi’s old quarter are listed by city authorities for restoration and preservation work, as residents here have been banned from repairing these houses themselves.