What should Vietnam do to be able to create Vietnamese products with globally recognized brands? This question was raised by VietNamNet to Tran Quang Hung, Secretary General of the Vietnam Electronics Association.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fourteen officials in Hong Dan district, the southern province of Bac Lieu, have been disciplined for using false high-school diplomas.

VietNamNet Bridge – The mud that has flooded Cao Bang town is non-toxic because it doesn’t contain chemicals, confirmed the Chair of Cao Bang province Nguyen Hoang Anh to an online newspaper on November 8.

A wild elephant killed a 14-year-old boy near a forestation farm in the southern province of Dong Nai Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City enterprises should build employee loyalty by sourcing capital from them and providing them with very good working conditions, says Le Hoang Quan, chairman of the municipal People's Committee.

VietNamNet Bridge – LOT Polish Airlines has announced a special discount on flights to Europe to promote the opening of its directly route from Hanoi (Vietnam) to Warsaw (Poland) from November 15.

VietNamNet Bridge – The domestic software industry has witnessed significant growth over the past five years, according to the Viet Nam Software Association (Vinasa).

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite being launched almost a year ago in Viet Nam, 3G mobile telephony is developing at a sluggish rate, experts said.

Dengue fever cases rising in HCM City; Seminar on hunger eradication and poverty reduction for ethnic minorities; Doctors save life of smallest newborn baby; Fourth grader returns $1,200 to teacher; International franchising expo opens in HCM City

VietNamNet Bridge – Only 52 out of HCM City's 113 public and private hospitals have standard wastewater-treatment systems, the Department of Health has reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government and lawmakers at the National Assembly's meeting on Friday, Nov 5, agreed that although the incidence of juvenile crimes has dropped, the severity of the offences has risen.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s relics like Khue Van Cac, Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature), One Pillar Pagoda and many world cultural heritages which are sculptured in huge blocks of ice are now displayed at HCM City’s Dam Sen Park.

VietNamNet Bridge – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday presented Vietnamese writer and translator Hoang Thuy Toan with a Friendship Medal at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local filmmakers and their American counterparts met at a cultural exchange programme yesterday held by the US Consulate General in HCM City to share experiences about documentary film-making.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many low-budget films, several of them made by HCM City students and shown on YouTube, are garnering praise from young audiences around the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Young Vietnamese filmmakers have been invited to participate in a short ecological film competition.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese karate team are still coming to grips with the fact that they will be going into the Asian Games (ASIAD) without Nguyen Hoang Ngan, who damaged her knee in Serbia last week.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese chess team has a good chance to win a medal at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China next week, thanks to Le Quang Liem's impressive performance.

A car bomb went off in the holy Shiite city of Karbala in central Iraq on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 38 others, an Interior Ministry source said.

The United States and India Monday apparently showed differences over Pakistan and Kashmir, with U.S. President Barack Obama calling on India and Pakistan to set up a mechanism to solve their disputes through talks.

A little girl from Quang Ngai province won the Best contestant and the Most favourite singer titles in the final night of Do Re Mi, a singing contest for children held by the national Vietnam Television Station, on November 7.

At least seven worshippers were killed in a bomb attack in a mosque near the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday night, police said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Contestants of the Miss Earth 2010 pageant on November 7 raised fund for flood victims in central Vietnam in HCM City.

The death toll of a shopping mall fire in northeast China's Jilin City has risen to 19, as the rescue headquarters declared the end of rescue efforts Saturday morning.

Qantas plane QF6 experienced engine problems shortly after takeoff from Singapore Friday evening, local media reported.