Five football players have been short-listed from a list of 35 nominees for the Golden Ball Award 2010, organized by the Saigon Giai Phong (Saigon Liberation) newspaper.

NASA has selected three planetary missions from which it will pick one potential mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced on Thursday.

Though students understand well that truancy means violations of the rules, and that this will lead to a knowledge gap, they still try to escape from lessons, because they cannot find joys at learning and cannot find support from families.

Vietnam pledged to effectively use loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said in Hanoi on May 5.

A total of 53.5 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from hunger or malnutrition, experts said at an international forum here Thursday.

As commercial banks have tightened their loans to fund real estate project development, a lot of investors have fallen into dilemma.

It is expected that by 2013, Vietnam’s online advertisement market would have the turnover of 114 million dollars, local newspapers have reported, quoting foreign sources.

VietNamNet Bridge – The mysterious cracks in the ground, discovered in Di Linh Town, in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, were likely caused by activate fault lines, but were no cause for concern according to seismic experts.

The monetary base in Japan shot up 23. 9 percent in April from a year earlier, rising for the 32nd consecutive month from a 16.9 percent annual increase logged in the previous month, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said in a report on Friday.

The Middle Airports Corporation (MAC) plans to temporarily close the Phu Bai International Airport for one month in order to upgrade the only runway at the airport.

VietNamNet Bridge – The U-13 Viettel football team will represent Viet Nam at the ASEAN Football Festival in Malaysia held from May 31 to June 7 team coach Nguyen Minh Tien said yesterday, May 5.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will establish an agency to manage public housing development in the hope of resolving a pressing issue that has plagued the city for long.

Crude prices plummeted on Thursday as investors revaluated the risks and chose to take profits and exit the crude markets amid a rising dollar, signs of less demand and news of a supply increase.

Prime Minister of Hamas' Gaza administration on Thursday said his government is ready to resign after a unity deal was reached with rival Fatah movement.

They are called “traditional craft villages”, but many of them don’t produce unique craft items. They are merely villages with a trade, which runs in backward and ragged ways.

It is a growing tendency that supermarkets are trying to market the product lines with their own brands which always have low prices.

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday on weak economic data and commodities prices plunge.

HCM City hotels add 1,300 rooms, receive 900,000 visitors in Q1; Thua Thien-Hue Province to host national tourism year 2012; Travel expo to promote tourism among four regional countries

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will supply 100 per cent of end-product methadone, a medicine used for drug addiction and HIV treatment to meet demand of more than 15,000 patients in 11 provinces and cities by 2012,

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will head a Vietnamese delegation set to attend the 18th ASEAN Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 7-8 in response to a formal invitation from the Indonesian President,

U.S. President Barack Obama laid a wreath at Ground Zero on Thursday in memory of the 9/11 victims, four days after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

VietNamNet Bridge - With gold trading getting quiet, savings only good in long terms and bearish stock market, the property market remains a safe haven during the current difficult time, said economists.

VietNamNet Bridge – Paintings of Ha Noi and its people by three Thai artists are on display in Ha Noi to celebrate 35 years of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and Thailand.

Wife of Osama bin Laden has told investigators that the al-Qaida leader had been living in Abbottabad, for five years, senior Pakistani army officials told a group of reporters on Thursday.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday instructed the agriculture and energy ministries to solve the problem of gasoline shortages in the country to ensure the start of spring cultivation, local media reported.