Five people were dead and 17 missing after a South Korean fishing vessel sank in the Southern Ocean early Monday, Maritime New Zealand confirmed on Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Weightlifter Nguyen Thi Hong finished with an 82.5kg lift in her third attempt to bag a bronze medal for Viet Nam at the Asian ParaGames for disabled athletes in Guangzhou, China yesterday, Dec 13.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of Vietnamese fans representing organisations registering for tickets for the forthcoming second leg, semi-final ASEAN Football Championship, AFF-Suzuki Cup match between Viet Nam and Malaysia queued for hours

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will have to play Malaysia in the first leg of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup semi-finals in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, Dec 15, without several of the team's best players.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s tourism industry is witnessing its golden age.

New film on President Ho makes premiere; 18th century coins found in northern Vietnam; Culture show to fete Vietnam-Indonesia relations; Golden artichoke flowers on display in Da Nang

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam may soon have a Formula One standard, world-class motor racing stadium.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local automobile assemblers will have a greater chance to promote their sales, as the door for state-funded imports of vehicles temporarily closes.

Pham Vu Luan, Minister of Education and Training said at a conference in the Mekong delta province of Dong Thap thousands of students have stopped attending school and we need more social contributions to help these students.

VietNamNet Bridge - Over 3,000 people in Vietnam lost their email passwords between December 7 and 9 when they received an email titled “Christmas Present,” according to the Hanoi-based internet security firm BKAV.

VietNamNet Bridge – A 50-year-old woman in the southern province of Binh Duong has been accused for poisoning dozens of people to steal their assets. At least two victims died.

Since the 2000 Enterprise Lawtook effect a lot of new kinds of businesses and services have appeared in Vietnam. Below, the VEF introduces the first part of the story on strangest and most shocking services marketed in 2010

VietNamNet Bridge - The Internet limelight has become Vietnam’s fastest route to fame. No one here is making a Justin Bieber-sized living off of their online stardom, but people are developing careers.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam football team stand to win cash prizes of at least VND7 billion (US$360,000) if they win the Suzuki Cup, according to the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) chairman Nguyen Trong Hy.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Thang Long royal citadel relic at 18 Hoang Dieu, Hanoi, will become a cultural and historical park under a government-approved plan.

VietNamNet Bridge – Attending Christmas parties at five-star hotels has become a new consumption trend among wealthy people in urban areas.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s rice export revenue this year is estimated to set a record of over US$3 billion, said Vietnam Food Association (VFA) chairperson Truong Thanh Phong at last week’s meeting to discuss the rice export situation. 

VietNamNet Bridge - New legal regulations mean foreign forest planting investors are in for a treat.

VietNamNet Bridge – State-owned Vinashin has not received any decision from creditors over its request to postpone paying $60 million but, in the worst scenarios, the shipbuilder has plan B, assures chairman Su.

VietNamNet Bridge - Germany’s Sachen Anhalt state is seeking a local partner for a big project to produce equipment used for manufacturing solar batteries in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Two tourists prepares for kite surfing on a beach of the coastal resort town of Phan Thiet. The tourism industry is projected to generate US$4.6 billion this year, according to local tourist authorities.

VietNamNet Bridge – An A320 aircraft was on fire. Smoke covered part of HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport. Rescue workers urgently evacuated 145 passengers and timely stamped out the fire. This is the script of the rehearsal on December 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – Car importers complain that they made mistakes in their business plans because they did not predict that the Ministry of Finance (MOF) would slash the sharply import tariffs even more than previously planned.

A lot of websites were reportedly attacked recently should go back to normal operation after several hours thanks to the back-up systems.

Though society maintains a dubious view on the quality of in-service training courses, state-owned universities have still been trying to expand their in-service training programs simply ...