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.

Designers roll out the finery; Discovering world music with Sophia Charai; Asia Foundation helps train Vietnam’s librarians; Nguyen Minh Nhu Anh crowned Miss Soc Trang 2011

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Wednesday that its Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity,

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 500 delegates participated at the National Press Conference in the capital city yesterday, May 5, to review last year's performance and launch the implementation of this year's plans.

After a lot of delays, the project on Lotus Hotel will be kicked off soon. The hotel is expected to have the height of 400 meters and become the tallest building in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – A leader from Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has been delighted with increasing legislative ties with Viet Nam and the two countries' strategic partnership.

The Europe Days 2011 programme will open in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on May 6, with a series of diverse intellectual and cultural activities.

No formalin has been found in the milk powder imported from S. Korea into China due to different milk sources, the general agency of South Korea's Maeil Dairies said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Consumer goods producers have voiced their concern about the material shortage, because they cannot compete with Chinese businessmen in collecting scrap metals.

British voters went to the polls on Thursday to decide whether they want to replace the first-past-the-post system with an alternative vote.

The death toll in a string of food poisoning cases at a Japanese barbecue restaurant chain has risen to four after a woman died Thursday, local media reported.

A pair of coconuts weighing nearly nine kilo each is on display at an exhibition in the southern province of Soc Trang.

Income from securities could get tax waiver; Vietnam’s footwear exports up 26.4 pct; Solo helicopter tours for Da Nang;  Dau Tieng reservoir to be replenished soon; Environment fund says soft loans await enterprises

Bill & Melina Gates Foundation is focusing on bringing together various partnerships in its efforts to empower the poorest people in the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa,

Seeking foreign strategic partners has not been listed as one of the important issues that bank management boards want to consult to shareholders at this year’s shareholders meetings.

VietNamNet introduces the collection of old photos of Saigon in the 1860-1909 period, owned by architect Doan Bac and his father, teacher Doan Thinh.

The reputed travel magazine Lonely Planet has recommended ten best tourist sites for walkers, including Sapa town in Vietnam’s northern mountain province of Lao Cai.  

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recently opened an exhibition of flowers and held a referendum on choosing the national flower in the central city of Da Nang. Over 97 percent of the votes supported the pink lotus.

Around 40,000 people in Vietnam die because of smoking annually, equivalent to the death cases caused by HIV/AIDS until March 2008, an expert said at a seminar in late April in Hanoi.

Vietnam’s top badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh defeated Indian player, Anand Pawar, 2-1 at the first round of the Grand Prix Gold Tournament, which opened in Malaysia on May 4.

Vietnam has been warned that it will not succeed in building up an e-government and become an information technology power if it cannot settle the current deficiency of information security experts.  

The State Bank has been warned that if restraining the exchange rate at low levels for too long, this may lead to bad consequences, including the liquidity weakening and higher trade gap.  

Film Screening “A Little Lieutenant”; New Program for Polish Violin Concert; Screening of Adrift; Photography Book “Spring Visits”

VietNamNet Bridge – Many cracks have mysteriously developed and widened on the ground over the past week in Lam Dong Province's Di Linh Town, sending its residents into panic and prompting district authorities to consider