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. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Overseas remittances into Vietnam saw a decline in the past months on the back of economic vulnerabilities.

VietNamNet Bridge – Supermodel Heather Marks arrived in HCM City on May 13, to attend the Long-legged Festival, which took place last night, May 15, at the Ocean Club, HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Kim Hye Soo, a movie star from South Korea appeared at a fashion event in HCM City on May 14.

VietNamNet Bridge - Doctors have rung the alarm bell over the increasingly high number of students who suffer depression. Especially, the number of hospitalized cases reported increases in exam seasons.

VietNamNet Bridge – After nearly three months living in the Kredtrakarn Center for Protection and Vocational Training in Thailand’s Nonthaburi Province, ten Vietnamese surrogate mothers have returned home.

VietNamNet Bridge - The UK-based Business Monitor International (BMI) said Vietnam’s telecom market is still in the 17th place in the Asia Pacific Telecom Business Environment Ratings and the future is looking increasingly bleak.

Fight delayed by false bomb threat; Unsettling weather conducive for diseases; Binh Duong police hunt businessman’s murderer; Maersk Line's vessel grounded at port; Solar panel project kicks off    

VietNamNet Bridge – Director of the Hanoi Police Bureau has instructed to inspect cyclos, seized illegal cyclos and gradually ban cyclos in Hanoi.

Cast members pose for photos prior to the premiere of the film "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, May 14, 2011.

The Japanese government Monday passed a 50 billion U.S. dollar extra budget for fiscal 2011 in the first of a series of emergency funding measures to aid reconstruction efforts in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three months after a tour boat owned by Truong Hai Co Ltd sank in Ha Long Bay, drowning 12 people, another boat has gone down at the World Heritage site.

VietNamNet Bridge – About 3,000 fishing vessels in 28 coastal provinces are to be equipped with satellite monitoring devices in August, under a project of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development aimed at helping them

VietNamNet Bridge – The unchecked release of untreated effluents into the environment by a majority of industrial parks (IPs) is killing rivers as well as fishing as a vocation in many localities nationwide, residents complain.

VietNamNet Bridge - Stocks lost value on meagre trading last week on the nation's stock exchanges.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s first tsunami warning system comprising a network of 10 centers was successfully tested in central Da Nang City on May 15.

Eight people were reportedly killed and dozens of others were wounded on Sunday when Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators at two locations near Israel's northern borders with Syria and Lebanon.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City police yesterday arrested 56 foreigners, most of them Asians, for swindling foreign individuals and businesses and used hi-tech devices to steal their bank account information.

VietNamNet Bridge - Phillip Noyce, the Australian director of “The quiet American,” will visit Vietnam to promote his authorized biography and meet film and media personalities around the country from May 27 to June 8.