HCM City development stymied by chaotic waterway management; HCM City finds 5,900ha sitting idle; New dam forces residents from homes in Lam Dong; Vietnam-Hungary Industry University established

VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal deforestation activities are widespread across the nation, says the latest report from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's General Forestry Department.

VietNamNet Bridge – The largest fashion show in Vietnam took place at The Garden centre in Hanoi on October 31, attracting the top models in Vietnam.

U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters beat top seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 to win the WTA Championships final on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Another case in which a kindergarten teacher mistreated a four-year-old boy has been reported in HCM City, making a wave of indignation in society.

VietNamNet Bridge – Officials are discussing ways to integrate herbal treatments into national health care at the second ASEAN Traditional Medicine Conference, which opened yesterday, Oct 31, in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Centre for Bio-technology Research and Application complex now under construction in southern Dong Nai Province is expected to be one of the leading centres of its kind in Southeast Asia.

Who is to blame for the rising school violence? Is the morality of young people degrading? Or do parents and schools neglect their task of teaching morality to students?

State shareholders, i.e. the economic institutions, where the state holds controlling stakes, now turn their backs to bank shares, which they had never done before.

VietNamNet Bridge – Colourful balloons floating on long threads are a delight of small children. But smiles can quickly turn to tears if the gas-filled bubbles get too close to a source of heat.

VietNamNet Bridge – Wastewater from provincial hospitals in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta has been discharged directly into local rivers for a long time, causing serious pollution, local reports say.

VietNamNet Bridge – M’lieng village beside Lak Lake in Daklak Province is still the same as it was a hundred years. The old houses and paths make it one of the rare villages that preserves the highland’s tangible and intangible cultural values.

VietNamNet Bridge - Heavy rains in the last three days in the central region have left four people dead, hundreds of houses destroyed, and the region submerged under water, according to local authorities.

VietNamNet Bridge – A television series on the life of Vietnamese revolutionaries in Con Dao Prison will be filmed this month by the Viet Nam Film Studio (VFS) and HCM City Television (HTV).

VietNamNet Bridge – A week of international award-winning German films from the 1999-2009 decade will kick off today, Nov 1, at the Ha Noi Goethe Institute.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 5,000 tickets are still available for the final round of the Miss Earth contest in Nha Trang coastal resort on December 4.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam walked away with two silver medals from the 20th World Senior Karate Championship which closed in Belgrade , Serbia, yesterday, Oct 31.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper's International Football Championship Cup stayed in Viet Nam for the second time after Viet Nam's U19 team defeated the Thai U21 2-1 yesterday in HCM City.

An eighteen-year-old U.S. woman named Alexandria Mills was crowned Miss World in south China's tropical island province of Hainan on Saturday.

U.S. President Barack Obama has chosen Ohio as the key state for his final rally before the Nov. 2 mid-term election. More than 8,000 Democrats gathered at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center on Sunday to show support.

A team of Australian and Chinese scientists on Friday announced they have pioneered a new method to make clean energy from land contaminated with toxic waste.

The ruling Workers Party (PT)'s presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff was elected Brazi's 40th president after Sunday's runoff votes.

The State’s policies do not corrupt SOEs or badly affect private enterprises. But it is the corrupt people who take unfair advantage of the loopholes in the legal framework to commit wrongdoings.

Foreign press hails a hospitable Vietnam; Hanoi Railway Station announces Tet sales; VND70 billion for Ha Tinh flood victims; Vietnam to receive 5 million foreign visitors; ASEAN delegates’ families visit Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

A senior White House official said Sunday bombs found in parcels in U.S.-bound cargo planes were "an al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula effort," and there could be more out there.