Experts said that Vietnam’s mega-city is flooded because its canals have been filled up. The city plans to spend over $500 million on flood-prevention plan but local residents will remain vulnerable to floods for at least another eight years.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Talent Prize 2010 sponsored by the Denmark-Vietnam Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) was presented to Pham Tuan Tu, 29, with four paintings which show people with unclear sexual orientation.

China Unicom today officially opened its Vietnam representative office in Hanoi, its first local office set up in Southeast Asia region following the presence of its affiliated company in Singapore.

Not only have they been exposing some skin on stage, pop singers in Vietnam have also been making steamy video clips, appealing to the audience’s appreciation of music by eyes rather than by ears.

Xuan La craft village in Hanoi’s Phu Xuyen district has been producing traditional toys for kids for generations, but is this old trade about to bite the dust?

Ministry of Public Security’s police have dropped “lack of responsibilities” charges against Luong Hoai Nam, former director of budget domestic carrier Jetstar Pacific Airlines.

VietNamNet Bridge – The romantic name attracts a lot of visitors to Tien Sa (The Fairy Descends) Lake, located about 60km from Ha Noi at the base of Tan Vien Mountain in Ba Vi District. It's an ideal destination for a relaxing day or weekend

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Nhat Anh, who is known for long stories for teenagers, has left Vietnam for Thailand to receive the ASEAN Literature Award 2010 for his book “Give me a ticket back to childhood”.

A working group of National Assembly and government representatives Friday arrived in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on their field trip to the construction sites of two bauxite mining projects in Lam Dong and Dak Nong.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Dung Quat Oil Refinery has operated for six months so it is difficult to appraise its effectiveness right now but according to the government, its shortcomings provide lessons for other national projects.

VietNamNet Bridge – Taking used clothes as relief for flood victims, the Red Cross of Nghe An province kept the clothes at a mechanical engineering enterprise’s warehouse. But 37 bags of clothes have become clouts at garages.

VietNamNet Bridge – As their families are very poor, many children in Vietnam’s northern mountainous region have to work very hard to support their families.

Vietnam yesterday protested against a Chinese agency which publishes an online world map that illustrates Vietnamese territorial waters in the East Sea as part of China.

The death toll from heavy flooding nationwide since last week rose to 140, government report said on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first sub-competition of the Miss Earth 2010 pageant will take place at HCM City’s Diamond Palace on November 9, hosted by Miss Asia American Jennifer Pham and supermodel-actor Binh Minh.

Patient saved after being stabbed by fighting cock; Harvard professor to chair workshop in Ha Noi; Workshop focuses on gender imbalance at birth; NGOs give recommendations on child issues

PM welcomes new Iraqi and Ukrainian ambassadors; Party officials sign research deal during visit to Singapore; State Vice President receives delegation from the Committee for Solidarity of Vietnamese Catholics

A passenger plane crashed in central Cuba on Thursday night, killing all 68 people onboard, the Cuban civil aviation authorities said.

Central bank raises benchmark rates; Stocks rally after State sells off dollars; Transport Ministry allows My Thuan-Can Tho project

The biggest problems of policy makers are that they cannot explain their decisions and they dare not take responsibility for their policies”, said Vo Tri Thanh, Deputy Head of CIEM.

The fact that FPT (the Corporation for Financing Technologies) and FPT Telecom will buy more than 50 percent of stakes of EVN Telecom is understood as the start of the new wave of merging mobile phone networks in Vietnam.

While the majority of parents have become indignant at the behaviour of Tran Thi Xuan Nu, others have called on the family of the victim to forgive, so that the teacher can continue her work.

The Tiger Translate Metropolis rock show will take place on November 12 at Hanoi’s Thong Nhat Park, with the participation of Canada’s Hail the Villain band and two leading bands in Vietnam – Ngu Cung and RoseWood.

The greenback is losing its value against most other currencies in the world, but it is appreciating against the Vietnam dong.

The Circular No 148 stipulating the measures to prevent and fight against money laundering has raised the opposition from securities investors, who believe that the legal document would badly affect the securities market