VietNamNet Bridge – National futsal (indoor football) champions Thai Son Bac have been invited to take part in the qualifying round of the Tiger Street Football tournament in Singapore this weekend.

Cows leisurely chew grass under the shade of phong ba trees. A flock of puppies compete for food. A soldier takes care of a vegetable garden… all make a peaceful painting of the life on the Truong Sa (Spratly) island district.

HCM City Securities Co targets 30% rise in profits; PetroVietnam Insurance to buy back shares; Song Da affiliate posts first-quarter earnings; Wood export deals pass 2010 mark; Ho Chi Minh City ports hike rates

VietNamNet Bridge – Singer Tung Duong's newest album, Li Ti (Tiny), earned him the title of Album of the Year at the Cong Hien (Devotion) awards ceremony last week, winning the votes of 100 culture and music critics.

VietNamNet Bridge - Farmers in Binh Phuoc Province, which has the largest area of cashew cultivation in the southeastern region, face a poor harvest this year as the price of cashew continues to decline.

VietNamNet Bridge – A 200-episode "real time" documentary that explores the geography, history and beauty of many places in the country will start filming in a few days.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though paying high salaries to retain key personnel and pay high service fees to job centers to hunt for talented persons, a lot of companies are still witnessing key staff members leaving.

Efforts to increase female NA deputy numbers; VN, Romania boost co-operation; Deputy PM receives DPRK envoy

NATO and its partners will not end their operation in Libya until three objectives have been achieved, including the withdrawal of government troops, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday.

A new research indicats taking vitamin D could ward off vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in women younger than 75, according to media reports on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Russia will be in charge of the operation of Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant in the central province of Ninh Thuan, said Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Kovtun Andrei Grigorievich.

The United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced its long-term debt plan, setting a goal to cut 4 trillion U.S. dollars over the next 12 years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many schools are wasting students’ time when teaching natural science subjects in English because they only produce students who are bad at natural science subjects in Vietnamese and bad at foreign languages as well.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced on Wednesday the merger of their environmental groups, hoping to make it the most prominent climate policy organization in the world.

VietNamNet Bridge – As one of the two oldest pottery villages in Southeast Asia, Bau Truc is considered a “museum” of traditional pottery of Cham people.

SBV's decision to set a cap on dollar deposits’ interest rates and raise compulsory reserve ratios on foreign-currency deposits is believed to help stabilize exchange rate. However, experts warned that this may lead to kieu hoi decreases.

Singapore's inaugural international film event ScreenSingapore will feature new film of Tom Hanks, "Larry Crowne," organizers said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The romantic Huong (Perfume) River, Hue royal citadel, ancient Thien Mu pagoda, etc. are located in Saigon’s center, at Ngu Lam Garden, owned by Nguyen Thanh Tung.

VietNamNet Bridge – The US Senate has approved President Barack Obama’s appointment of new ambassadors to several countries, including Vietnam.

Japan on April 12 raised the severity level of the accident at the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant to 7, the worst on an international scale but in Vietnam, radioactive isotope level is very low, which is harmless to health.

VietNamNet Bridge – It looks peaceful but Na U village in the northern mountain province of Dien Bien is a trouble-spot that receives drugs from Laos.

VietNamNet Bridge – Like many visitors to Viet Nam, Anne Hellinker is in a quandary – she wants to explore more of the country but doesn't want to die in the process.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem's win in the recent Aeroflot Open got him an invitation to the 39th Sparkassen Chess Meeting scheduled to be held in Dortmund, Germany from July 21 to 31.

VietNamNet Bridge - The recent collapse of a five-storied building in Hanoi has caused panic since a number of other buildings in the capital suffer tilts due to subsidence and show signs of possible collapse.

The information that the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has announced a  quota of 250,000 ton for imported of sugar in 2011, including the 50,000 tons to be imported right after April 15, has made sugar refineries worried stiff.