VietNamNet Bridge – The first round of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup football championship finished in a way that caught football fans and experts by surprise, with old hands stamping their authority onto the regional football map.

A workshop to launch the Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010 was held in Hanoi on November 30 with the participation of Professor Michael E. Porter from the Havard Business School.

In recent days, dozen of residents in central provinces of Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa had been tricked into going to the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong to pick coffee beans with meager payment.

Big Toe, Vietnam’s leading hip-hop dance group, finished fifth out of 17 teams from around the world in the annual Battle of the Year break dance contest that finished last Saturday in France.

Though the authorities of Lam Dong province said that hydro-power plants annually contributed millions of US dollars to the local budget, scientific analysis and statistics show that these works do harm rather than benefit the province.

Hosts and defending champions Vietnam are on top of group B in the Suzuki Cup being played in Hanoi after crushing Myanmar 7-1 Thursday. In another match in the group, Singapore and the Philippines drew 1-1.

Israeli shootings on Palestinians near Gaza's borders continued Friday, wounding one local worker collecting gravel in northern Gaza Strip.

VietNamNet Bridge - Education for Nature-Vietnam has slammed the Thanh Hoa Province administration for allowing official agencies to auction tiger-bone glue seized from a local resident.

Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has climbed to fifth place in the latest world’s men’s singles rankings -- the highest-ever ranking in his competition career.

Ngo Bao Chau who just won a ‘Nobel’ math prize shares his honor with scandalous stars, sadistic killer and other hot topics including Word Cup and central floods as the most searched on Yahoo Vietnam 2010.

A ceremony to receive UNESCO recognition of Dong Van Stone Plateau as a member of the Global Network of National Geoparks (GGN) was held in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on Dec. 1.

VietNamNet Chief Editor Nguyen Anh Tuan returned to Boston in early October. He has gone to Boston many times and he always feels peaceful here. But this time his mood was different because his friend, conductor Charles Ansbacher passed away.

At least 20 Iranian pilgrims were killed and up to 40 people wounded when two buses collided near a marketplace in south of Baghdad on Friday, the police said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Immediately after the game between Vietnam and Myanmar ended, the My Dinh Square in front of the My Dinh National Stadium was flooded by thousands of people carrying Vietnamese flags and banners.

American passenger found carrying guns; Former Gov't inspector given life sentence; Man rescued at sea returned to Cambodia; Four allegedly abused boys return home; Seminar to discuss poverty alleviation in mountain areas

Vietnam-China relations further strengthen; VN Communist Party delegation attends ICAPP 6; US Institute of Global Engagement head visits VN; Military Zone 7 urged to cooperate with local authorities

Hundreds of emails have been sent to VietNamNet’s Vietnam Economic Forum, complaining about the sharp dollar price increases. The businessmen complain that if the current situation cannot be improved, they will have to shut down.

South Korea's largest business group Samsung on Friday announced an executive reshuffle plan, according to which the only son of group chairman was promoted to president of Samsung Electronics, the company said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Inadequate subsidies and the high cost of imported spare parts are the main reasons for the bad conditions that most city buses are in, officials say.

Nation lacks teachers for autistic kids; Ministry to suspend enrollment of violated universities, colleges; WB steps up support for Vietnam’s higher education reform agenda

FDI to flow into garments; Higher interests will help curb inflation, government told; Knight Frank opens property centre

International enterprises are more confident about doing business in Viet Nam and are planning to expand is the message the Viet Nam Business Forum in Ha Noi delivered to the Government yesterday.

The Government reviewed socioeconomic growth in the past 11 months and introduce measures to stabilize prices and market for the rest of the year and during the Lunar New Year at a regular monthly cabinet meeting on December 1-2.

Repeated cases of school violence cases which occurred in recent days have raised doubts that the measures taken by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) and general schools to fight school violence are useless.

The dollar price in the black market is now higher by 2000 dong per dollar than the price quoted by commercial banks. The overly high dollar has made businesses exhausted.