VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam strives to be one of the world’s top 40 nations whose Information Technology (IT) students meet international qualifications by 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's infertility rate stands at eight per cent, and the infertility rate is equal in men and women, according to Nguyen Viet Tien, deputy health minister and director of the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

VietNamNet Bridge – Road upgrading in Ha Noi will be suspended from December 30 through to Lunar New Year (Tet) which falls in February 2011, the Ha Noi Transport Department announced.

VietNamNet Bridge – The country's Health Insurance Fund was expected to run a surplus of VND3.5 trillion (US$175 million) this year, said deputy general director of the Viet Nam Social Insurance Nguyen Minh Thao.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Christian community made a major contribution to helping Viet Nam overcome the effects of the global financial crisis and natural disasters this year, said Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem yesterday, Dec 23.

VietNamNet Bridge – A total of 254 workplace accidents in the first 10 months of the year killed 287 workers nationwide, according to statistics released by the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour.

VietNamNet Bridge – A plan to develop water transport as a supplement to the ever-more congested roads of HCM City is progressing well, according to city officials.

VietNamNet Bridge – Lax application of the law by local police and authorities have blunted efforts to reduce and prevent domestic violence in the city, officials said at a workshop earlier this week.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tens of thousands of people in the south and across the country mourned the death last week of veteran revolutionary Tran Van Giau during funeral services in HCM City yesterday, Dec 23.

VietNamNet Bridge – A huge amount of discarded electrical and electronic equipment (e-waste), particularly refrigerators, computers and mobile phones, is said to pose an alarming threat to the environment throughout Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam National Academy of Music will offer a special concert for children every quarter at the academy's campus, according to piano instructor Ta Quang Dong, who initiated and organised the programme.

Leaders send congratulations to Japan; Vietnam’s Army Day celebrated abroad; Indonesia set to release Vietnamese fishermen; Inter-organisational Party branches meet

VietNamNet Bridge – Veteran author Nguyen Quang Than's historical novel, Hoi The (Revenge Vows), has received the first prize for fiction from the Viet Nam Writers Association in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Christmas Eve music and other performances in HCM City tonight will feature some big names and promise to provide something for everyone.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training has required localities to re-examine the operation of private kindergartens, which have recently been at the centre of several serious cases of child abuse.

Fresh snowfall and frost forecast are likely to hamper air and railway traffic in France, Europe' s main tourists destination, few days before the Christmas holidays.

Russia plans to launch five Glonass communication satellites in 2011 and 48 more later to create a Cosmonaut information highway, local media reported Wednesday.

Top leader Kim Jong Il of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has lately called for a "great offensive" to boost the country's infrastructure construction.

Two bomb explosions respectively hit the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome Thursday, each injuring one person in the diplomatic missions, the ANSA news agency reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – International Grandmaster Le Quang Liem will compete with fans in an exhibition event ahead of the HD Bank Chess Cup in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City football has shown intentions of putting a stop to its shameful results over the last two years at local football competitions as HCM City and Navibank Sai Gon football clubs have revamped their teams . . .

VietNamNet Bridge – The sixth National Sport Games will officially kick off tomorrow, Dec 25, in the central city of Da Nang with a record 3,300 participants.

VietNamNet Bridge – 101 photos featuring the daily life of General Vo Nguyen Giap by journalist-photographer Tran Tuan are now on the first-ever display at an exhibition in Hanoi celebrating the 66th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army.

VietNamNet Bridge – A schoolgirl from the central city of Da Nang has received the special prize of an international film making competition for Asian children, held in Japan.

By 5 pm of December 23, the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) still had not paid $60 million of debt, the first due installment of the package worth $600 million that Vinashin borrowed in 2008, according to Saigon Tiep Thi newspaper.