VietNamNet Bridge – Grandmaster Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son won the men's singles of the National Youth Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships which wrapped up in HCM City on Wednesday.

Vietnamese consumers, compared to other Asian shoppers, are more inclined to seek promotions as inflation causes more people to become price-sensitive, according to the latest edition of the Nielsen Shopper Trends Study released on Tuesday.

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), a rare skin cancer is more aggressive than the deadly skin disease melanoma, according to an Australian study revealed on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ut Linh is a skillful rush-mat maker; though she is only nine years old. She is among rare descendants of the Cai Chanh rush-mat making village in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

The Republic of South Sudan declared independence Saturday, waiting to be recognized as the 193rd member of the United Nations and hoping to keep peace with the north after decades of war.

Van Ngoc Tu ranks 45th in world Judoka ranking; Vinh Long table tennis event begins with a bounce; U16 Vietnam lose 0-5 to Singapore; HCM City badminton team to attend US Open; Vietnam to attend international Olympiads  

VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam's Truong Thanh Hang won a silver medal in the women's 1,500m event at the ongoing 19th Asian Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan, July 8.

An analysis of the front pages of Internet's 10,000 largest sites showed that Facebook still enjoys a dominant position on the adoption of social sharing plug-ins and links to social sites, according to a study released Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese exporters of major products are selling more but earning less, leading economic experts have said.

An airliner crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Friday as it tried to land in bad weather, killing 127 people, the country's transport ministry said.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade is drafting the automobile industry development strategy for 2020-2030, which shows two most important tasks: increasing the localization ratios and setting up powerful mechanical engineering centers.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN) and its subsidiaries have decided to cancel construction of 300 projects with total investment of VND12.5 trillion (US$609 million) in response to Government Resolution 11.

VietNamNet Bridge -  Indonesia should use regional forums and its leadership position in ASEAN to help relieve tensions between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors over the East Sea territorial disputes, an expert says.

VietNamNet Bridge - Around 633,800 candidates are sitting for the second phase of the 2011 university entrance exams on July 9-10.

Since June 1, tourists have been able to embark on a 40-minute flight, in an ATR-72 aircraft, from Can Tho to Con Dao, where they can immerse themselves in the pristine beauty of Nature and seek solace in historical and spiritual reflections.

VietNamNet Bridge – In its master plan for socio-economic development from now till 2020 with vision till 2030, Ha Noi sets a target to become a driving force in national development.

Apple announced Thursday that over 15 billion applications have been downloaded from its App Store by more than 200 million Apple mobile devices users worldwide.

A public inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World, a best selling Sunday newspaper to be closed after this Sunday, would be staged, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced Friday.

Obesity rates in the United States climbed over the past year in 16 states, and not a single state reported a decline in the proportion of excessively overweight residents, according to a report released on Thursday.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday apologized for the disarray due to the delay of restarting nuclear power plants in Saga prefecture by the sudden issuance of additional stress tests.

Thailand's elected prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra rejected as groundless reports that she planned to go to Hong Kong to meet her elder brother, the fugitive ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, on Sunday to discuss the cabinet lineup.

U.S. space shuttle Atlantis lifted off on Friday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on the 135th and final flight in NASA's shuttle program.

Sua trees (Dalbergia cochinchinensis - Alstonia) on Hanoi’s Xuan Thuy Road have been put on with “armours” to be safe from loggers.

Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnam’s prime minister, warned recently that his country would “resolutely fight activities that infringe our sovereignty”.

VietNamNet Bridge – Chief of the Sea Police Agency of Vietnam, Lieutenant General Pham Duc Linh, said that in early 2012, the sea police force will be equipped with big vessels, which can make long voyages, and aircraft.