VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi Football Club was held to a 1-1 draw by Ceres Negros from the Philippines in a Group G match of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup at My Dinh Stadium yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Website fourfourtwo.com of the UK has named Vietnamese footballers Ha Duc Chinh and Ho Minh Di in its list of 20 best footballers under the age of 20 in Southeast Asia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Quy Phuoc won two gold medals at the eighth Lisbon International Meeting which closed in Oeiras City, Portugal, on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tribute concert dedicated to singer and songwriter Tran Lap – the late frontman of rock band The Wall, who died in March last year after a short battle with cancer, will take place in Ha Noi this weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 40-year-old patient with aortic aneurism in the emergency ward at HCM City’s Cho Ray Hospital needed a lot of blood, but the hospital did not have enough.

Nguyen Hoang Hai, Vice Chairman of the Viet Nam Association of Financial Investors. speaks to Hai Quan online about the Government’s resolve to have all equitised State-owned enterprises listed on the stock exchange

Dr Tran Toan Thang, deputy director of the Research Department on Business Environment and Competition, under the Central Institute for Economic Management speaks to BNEWs/Viet Nam News Agency about green growth

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s Traffic Safety Committee and Transport Department has said it plans a series of strong measures in order to reduce traffic jams.

 The practice of ‘wife catching’ is a longstanding tradition. However, the tradition has a new obstacle: camera phones.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A small stall auctioning origami works like flower vases, dinosaurs and bugs attracted visitors to the Viet Nam-Japan Cultural and Commercial Festival held in Can Tho City recently.

The first train of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway has been installed safely on the track, the Railway Projects Management Unit (under the Ministry of Transport) announced early Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in central Ha Tinh Province denied the connection between Formosa’s waste water discharge and the reddish streak appeared on water edge near the province’s Son Duong wharf.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A seven-year-old male Bos Gaurus bull, an endangered species listed in Group IB in Viet Nam’s Red Book, was killed in a protected area in Chu Mom Ray National Park last Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Saigon Orchestra and dozens of veteran and young artists will participate in a contemporary music programme launched this week to serve tourists in HCM City. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in HCM City’s District 4 want to set up a night market in Ward 12 and have sought permission for it from the city People’s Committee.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Storms and tropical depressions are likely to arrive earlier and with more frequency in the East Sea than in the average monsoon season,

The talent and skilled hands of foreign sculptors have turned a two-hectare empty lot into a wonderful sand sculpture park in Phan Thiet city’s Phu Hai Ward in the south central coastal province of Binh Thuan.

Pham Hong Thai, Head of the General Department for Market Development and Business, speaks to the newspaper Viet Nam Economic Times on the need to have a close link between scientists and enterprises.

Around 8am last Saturday, my son and I were taking a break on the banks of Ho Tay after riding around it on our bicycles. The sun was shining and we were enjoying the moment when it was rudely disrupted by a young couple.

The Institute of Environmental Technology under the Viet Nam Academy of Science and Technology has taken samples from a 50-metre streak of reddish seawater that appeared in central Ha Tinh Province’s Son Duong Port last Friday for tests.