About 30 to 60 percent of Earth's permafrost will disappear by 2200 as a result of warming temperatures, a new study warns.

Is "American Idol" and its new judging panel going soft this year? Yes, says executive producer Nigel Lythgoe. Brutal honesty was the right tone when the TV talent show and Britain's Simon "Mr. Nasty" Cowell brought a breath of fresh air

Two passenger trains collided near Buenos Aires on Wednesday, killing at least 4 people and injuring 70 others, local media reported.

One protester was killed and about 50 were injured Thursday in clashes between police and anti-regime protesters in Yemen's capital of Sanaa and southern port city of Aden, local sources told Xinhua.

State creates favourable conditions for internet; Vietnam opposes China’s military exercise in Hoang Sa area; Vietnam follows developments in Sudan and Egypt; Ethnic minority people return from Cambodia

The Ministry of Education and Training looks for candidates for the key posts in the ministry. Vietnamese universities look for rectors by advertising their vacancies in foreign newspapers. This has never happened before in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The draft laws on human trafficking and independent auditing were discussed by members of the National Assembly Standing Committee yesterday, Feb 17, in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Huu Trang Theatre's cai luong (reformed theatre) shows offered old stories in a modern style for HCM City theatre fans during Tet (Lunar New Year).

VietNamNet Bridge – The annual Viet Nam's Poetry Day took place yesterday on the full-moon day of the first lunar month across the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Eighteen bronze drums will be brought to Vietnamese embassies for display this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Hoang Thien, the 16-year-old tennis talent of Vietnam, returned home on February 15 from his first overseas competition in 2011 with satisfactory results.

Experts believe that the move by the State Bank of Vietnam to raise the interbank exchange rate by 9.3 percent will reassure people about the efficiency of the State Bank’s market management, thus creating a positive impact on the stock market.

Firms guilty of social insurance avoidance; Vendor dies as car hits preschool; Coal gas puts elderly couple in hospital; Crackdown on mobile advertising; Woman with rare blood clot condition survives operation

Despite dire predictions, few major retailers have entered the domestic market in the two years since the country opened its retail market to foreign competition under the terms of its commitments to the World Trade Organisation.

VietNamNet Bridge – The high economic growth in 2010 has been overcast by the high inflation rate.

Vietnam’s exports sees impressive growth rate because it set low targets

Twelve universities in the inner city of Hanoi have been “ordered” to relocate to new places. This means that the schools will leave attractively located land plots , considered the “open-cast gold mines”.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Mobile phone subscribers are not only disturbed by advertisement SMSs, but also when a they are woken up at night just because service providers inform them that the money left in their accounts is 28,000 dong.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new year dawns, once again raising hope in people throughout the world – and particularly in Viet Nam in this Year of the Cat.

VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in HCM City and neighbouring Binh Duong Province have continued urgent measures to prevent criminals from scattering nails along highways as a means of charging exorbitant fees to repair flat tyres.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foot-and-mouth disease reappeared in 17 cities and provinces nationwide after being contained for three weeks, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite a spectacular loss against Ivan Cheparinov of Bulgaria in the penultimate round yesterday evening, Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem won the Russian International Chess Festival Aeroflot Open in Moscow

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 50 windsurfers from 12 countries will take part in the 12th Fun Cup windsurfing competition tomorrow at Mui Ne in the central coastal province of Binh Thuan.

Ski resort in Jilin province offers huge crowd-free slopes, breathtaking scenery and natural snow, Alexis Hooi finds.

Vietnam’s development definitely depends much on Vietnamese intellectuals. Tuoi tre Tan Mao magazine published Professor Ngo Bao Chau’s reflection on this subject, as well as the views of other researchers/scholars and young people.