TNK-BP, a company processing procedures to buy BP's assets in Vietnam, yesterday announced it had signed a cooperation agreement with state-run PetroVietnam.

Teachers at Nguyen Dinh Chieu Junior High for blind children in Hanoi say their wards tend to lack self-confidence, but they have unlimited imagination.

The environmental advocacy group Greenpeace has called for the adoption of “readily available” food security solutions instead of hugely problematic ones like genetically engineered rice.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many antiques excavated from the Thang Long royal citadel in Hanoi will be displayed for the first time at the sixth Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day at 2 Hoa Lu, Hanoi from November 20-24.

A number of banks in Vietnam are offering negotiable deposit rates in a bid to attract more customers

Government plans two new airports; Yen Bai to host investment forum; Steel corporation again raises prices; Index down as profit taking continues

The golden promotion weekend tripled the number of customers at supermarkets and shopping centres in Ha Noi, bringing a sudden increase in revenue to enterprises.

Maximising renewable energy resources such as solar energy, wind power and the application of biogas and biomass would be part of Viet Nam's actions towards a low carbon economy by 2020

VietNamNet Bridge – Coming to the resort city of Da Lat in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, visitors should not forget to call at a very special house named Crazy House.

Vietnam’s representative at the Miss Earth 2010 pageant – Diem Huong – on November 15 ranked first in the online pole of the reputed website on international pageants Missology.

Nguyen Lam Diem Trang, a schoolgirl from the southern province of Vinh Long, became Miss Teen 2010 in the final night on November 14. The bonus  prize for the winner is 100 million dong ($5000).

The Saigon railway station began selling train tickets for the upcoming lunar New Year holiday on the Internet on November 15 but many people were very angry because they couldn’t book tickets online.

VietNamNet Bridge – Google has awarded Vietnamese IT engineer Bui Quang Minh $1000 for discovering a dangerous gap in its browser Google Chrome.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese film producers used to produce films for Tet holiday (lunar New Year) only but not any more.

VietNamNet Bridge – With wonderful music, unique art, imposing state, Tiger Translate Metropolis 2010 rock show in Hanoi on November 12 impressed the youth.

VietNamNet Bridge – It is no longer strange to see small Internet ads by young girls who offer their own nude photos for sale.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three out of five members in a family in Hanoi’s Soc Son district died from poisonous smoke from their brick-kiln on November 15.

Most of the economic groups that monopolize the fields in which they operate do not expose information under any circumstances, even when this is required by the laws

VietNamNet Bridge - A man was arrested while transporting a frozen tiger in a small truck on November 15.

Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Khac Nghien, a member of the Party Central Committee, the Chief of General Staff of the Vietnamese Army, Deputy Minister of Defense passed away at a hospital in Hanoi on November 13.

China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, which is capable of 2.57 quadrillion computing operations per second, pulling ahead of the United States in the global supercomputing race.

Japan's economy grew an annualized real 3.9 percent in the July-September quarter, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of expansion and beating economists' forecasts, the Cabinet Office said in a preliminary report on Monday.

The number of deaths in Haiti due to the cholera epidemic rose to 917, the Haitian Public Health Ministry said on Sunday.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is scheduled to come on the country's main TV channels on Tuesday after the disclosure of new ministers'list in a move to explain his choices and to garner approval ratings.

Death toll from the fire in a downtown Shanghai apartment block Monday had risen to 42, said a statement from the municipal publicity department.