“We rejected ten events to save more than 100 billion dong. It is incorrect to say that we spent 4-5 trillion dong on Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary,” confirmed Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Binh Duong Province, which has fruitlessly spent VND4.47 trillion (US$229.2 million) in the last three years to clean up the pollution caused by industries, has decided to double the outlay for the next five years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hitachi and Panasonic Corporation will set up a co-operative relationship in the global smart-community business to help achieve a low-carbon society.

VietNamNet Bridge – Students at two-year vocational schools and colleges will be allowed to transfer to colleges and universities, according to a new policy from the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Labour, . . .

VietNamNet Bridge – Numerous deputies used their alloted seven minutes to address the trade deficit; pollution and the widening income gap during the second day of 12th National Assembly's discussion session telivised live nationwide yesterday.

Results began to trickle in Tuesday night as polls close in several U.S. states, and the Republicans have made a net gain in the Senate with Dan Coats capturing a Democratic seat in Indiana, according to U.S. media projections.

VietNamNet Bridge – The national billiards and snooker team has set themselves a target of winning gold at the upcoming Asian Games.

VietNamNet Bridge – South Korea's U-23 team defeated host Viet Nam 2-0 in the first-round match of the Viet Nam Football Federation's SONHA Cup at Ha Noi's My Dinh Stadium yesterday, Nov 2.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese track and field athletes returned home from the Malaysia Open on the weekend with two gold and one silver medals.

Black raspberries are highly effective in preventing colorectal tumors in two mouse models of the disease, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) study published in the November issue of Cancer Prevention Research.

Voters are heading to polls across the United States Tuesday to cast their ballots in the midterm elections at a time when Republicans are expected to make major gains against the majority-Democrat Congress.

VietNamNet Bridge - The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will launch its first direct air route from Ho Chi Minh City to Yangon, Myanmar on November 11.

Using fruit flies, U.S. researchers have uncovered a protein called TOR which is linked with heart disease.

While some experts believe that the Circular No 22 will bring positive effects to the market, others argue that the legal document will take a big volume of gold out or circulation, which will be a big waste.

If a provisional committee is established to investigate the Vinashin case, it should be set up early and its members should be independent experts, said the Chair of the National Assembly’s Committee for Defence and Security.

VietNamNet Bridge - ‘Long Bien Bridge – The Connection’, a photography exhibition by US photographer Douglas Jardine will open this evening at Maison des Arts, 31A Van Mieu street in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 30,000 people have registered to donate their corneas after death to support a cornea donation campaign which has been launched in 10 cities and provinces throughout the country.

VietNamNet Bridge - Fishermen in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang caught a giant barb fish Monday on the Hau River, a branch of the Mekong River. According to local people, it was the largest fish of its kind ever caught in the region.

The death toll from a series of coordinated explosions in Baghdad on Tuesday rose to 57, while 248 others were wounded, an Interior Ministry source said.

There might be a connection between the wave of postal bomb attacks in Athens and the Italian revolutionary anarchist movement, local media reported on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Finance has again suggested making a trial of football betting services in Vietnam as the foundation for implementing other betting services in Vietnam.

Confirming that Vietnam’s Cam Ranh port will not become a foreign military base but Minister of Defence, General Phung Quang Thanh, said that a logistics center will be built to supply services for both domestic and foreign ships.

“Comprehensively, I think bauxite mining is not helpful for the development of the Central Highlands,” said writer, social and cultural researcher Nguyen Ngoc in the online discussion on bauxite projects with VietNamNet.

Import companies prove to be the biggest sufferers from the dollar price decreases. They have to apply a lot of measures to save the production.

Vietnam’s bio-diversity is at an extremely high risk as a result of environmental pollution which is threatening the ecosystem.