Tsunami after strong quake in West Sumatra of Indonesia on Monday evening killed 23 people and left 169 others missing, emergency relief aids will be sent immediately, officials said on Tuesday.

The biggest problem for all businesses in the post-crisis period is the personnel shortage. But for human resource consultancy firms it is the right time to do business.

VietNamNet Bridge – Residents on the southern side of Dung Quat Oil Refinery in central Quang Ngai Province's Binh Son District have complained of the sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution being released from the plant.

While the use of bio-pesticides have been growing in the world, Vietnamese farmers, for many reasons, still refuse to use them.

Russian academy opens branch; Bodies of drowned girls found; Trucks ban on five streets for summit; Zing.vn fined for violating licence; Japan's Mitsubishi to help VN reduce energy consumption

VietNamNet Bridge - Dairy product distributors have complained that the price registration scheme is unfair.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though the flood tide on October 25 was not as high as forecast, thousands of houses and many roads along the Saigon River were flooded.

Indonesia on Monday raised alert status of a volcano located in a densely populated area of Central Java to top alert, and asked for a massive evacuation for more than ten thousands people living in the slope of the mountain, officials said.

VietNamNet Bridge - A Vietnamese fishing boat seized illegally in the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago and released by the Chinese earlier this month are expected to arrive Ly Son District on October 26.

VietNamNet Bridge - An average of 21 Vietnamese students shares a seat in libraries. Of the 196 universities and colleges, 24 are without libraries while 119 are without e-libraries.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City People’s Committee will strictly punish traffic violators, in particular, illegal motorbike racing, which causes traffic accidents, said the city's Chair Le Hoang Quan.

VietNamNet Bridge – Party Secretary General Nong Duc Manh’s wife – Mrs. Ly Thi Bang – passed away on October 24, at the age of 69.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Education and Training Minister Nguyen Vinh Hien has instructed schools throughout the country to report and publish additional school fees and their intended use before collecting tuition.

VietNamNet Bridge – The corpses of two foreign victims of the fireworks explosion at Hanoi’s My Dinh National Stadium on October 6 are still kept at the Thanh Nhan Hospital, according to the Saigon Tiep Thi Newspaper.

VietNamNet Bridge – More mechanisms should be created to help Viet Nam's 5 million disabled people access job training to make sure they fully benefit from the new Law on People with Disabilities.

VietNamNet Bridge – Italian Orchestra Citta di Firenze will perform under the baton of conductor Lorenzo Castriota Skanderbeg at the Toyota Classics 2010, at the Ha Noi Opera House tomorrow, Oct 27.

VietNamNet Bridge – Most National Assembly deputies agreed on the need to issue a resolution on agricultural land-use tax exemptions and reductions during a session yesterday, Oct 25.

Project transfer is really a normal thing in the real estate market. However, the realty project transfer wave has never been so strong as these days.

Luu Thi Thanh said goodbye to the national sepak takraw team once before, but has now returned to complete her task as a responsible captain at the up-coming Asian Games in November.

Unplanned stone mining is denigrating the beauty of the Dong Van Stone Highlands, Vietnam’s first UNESCO-recognized geopark

VietNamNet Bridge – Teenage trio Nguyen Hoang Thien, Nguyen Thi Kim Tuyen and Hoang Quy Phuoc will make their debut at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China next month.

Thirty-three miners, who were trapped 700 meters underground for 70 days, received at the Chile' s Presidential Palace on Monday the honorable medal of Bicentenary.

U.S. space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin an 11-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 4:40 p.m. EDT (2040 GMT) on Nov. 1, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Monday.

A supernatural power has reigned over the North America box office over the weekend as " Paranormal Activity 2" harvested 41.5 million dollars in ticket stubs, a big surprise for Hollywood moviemakers and critics.

Vietnam plans to develop 15 IT parks as it jockeys to become a high-tech player