Vietnam’s top badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh, needed three sets to get a hard win over Malaysia’s Muhammad Hafiz Hashim on May 5, to enter the quarterfinals of the Malaysian Grand Prix Gold tournament.

General Motors has initiated a voluntary recall covering more than 154,000 units of its popular Chevrolet Cruze from North America market, due to steering and transmission issues, according to a Thursday report of Detroit Free Press.

A Chinese official has vowed to take every possible measure to ensure food safety in the country, saying the government has decided to launch national overhauls this year on sectors including milk products, cooking oil, . . .

Domestic commercial banks have been joining forces to organize the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) annual meeting, a big international event hosted by Vietnam, and taking full advantage of the event to do the marketing and polish their images.

Twenty containers consisting of stage, light, sound systems and LED screens have been transported from Malaysia and China to Vietnam, to prepare for the show of the South Korean boyband Super Junior in the Binh Duong province on May 7.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's central provinces are some of the country's most beloved destinations for travellers.

Scientists said that the sea turtle that was captured in the central province of Nghe An on May 2, is facing extinction and they need protection.

Five football players have been short-listed from a list of 35 nominees for the Golden Ball Award 2010, organized by the Saigon Giai Phong (Saigon Liberation) newspaper.

NASA has selected three planetary missions from which it will pick one potential mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced on Thursday.

Though students understand well that truancy means violations of the rules, and that this will lead to a knowledge gap, they still try to escape from lessons, because they cannot find joys at learning and cannot find support from families.

Vietnam pledged to effectively use loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said in Hanoi on May 5.

A total of 53.5 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from hunger or malnutrition, experts said at an international forum here Thursday.

As commercial banks have tightened their loans to fund real estate project development, a lot of investors have fallen into dilemma.

It is expected that by 2013, Vietnam’s online advertisement market would have the turnover of 114 million dollars, local newspapers have reported, quoting foreign sources.

VietNamNet Bridge – The mysterious cracks in the ground, discovered in Di Linh Town, in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, were likely caused by activate fault lines, but were no cause for concern according to seismic experts.

The monetary base in Japan shot up 23. 9 percent in April from a year earlier, rising for the 32nd consecutive month from a 16.9 percent annual increase logged in the previous month, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said in a report on Friday.

The Middle Airports Corporation (MAC) plans to temporarily close the Phu Bai International Airport for one month in order to upgrade the only runway at the airport.

VietNamNet Bridge – The U-13 Viettel football team will represent Viet Nam at the ASEAN Football Festival in Malaysia held from May 31 to June 7 team coach Nguyen Minh Tien said yesterday, May 5.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will establish an agency to manage public housing development in the hope of resolving a pressing issue that has plagued the city for long.

Crude prices plummeted on Thursday as investors revaluated the risks and chose to take profits and exit the crude markets amid a rising dollar, signs of less demand and news of a supply increase.

Prime Minister of Hamas' Gaza administration on Thursday said his government is ready to resign after a unity deal was reached with rival Fatah movement.

They are called “traditional craft villages”, but many of them don’t produce unique craft items. They are merely villages with a trade, which runs in backward and ragged ways.

It is a growing tendency that supermarkets are trying to market the product lines with their own brands which always have low prices.

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday on weak economic data and commodities prices plunge.

HCM City hotels add 1,300 rooms, receive 900,000 visitors in Q1; Thua Thien-Hue Province to host national tourism year 2012; Travel expo to promote tourism among four regional countries