Coca-Cola has canceled a sponsorship deal worth 750,000 US dollars a year with Brazilian star Ronaldinho.

VietNamNet Bridge – At the age of 73, Nguyen Duy Tuy is one of a number of elderly men with figures showing the ravages of their age who are nevertheless willing pose as nude models for art students.

VietNamNet Bridge – Motorcyclist Le Huy Hoa has collected around 20 trophies since he debuted as a professional in 1997.

Hanoi city authorities will present a ceramic mural to the French city of Choisy le Roi as part of the activities to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.

ASEAN needs to maintain solidarity, strengthen coordination and play key role in dealing with regional challenges, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has said.

The Chinese side recently illegally seized six Vietnamese fishing boats with 30 fishermen on board while they were operating off Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago. On July 8 three of these vessels, along with all the crewmembers, were released.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Quyet Chien of Viet Nam earned a berth to compete at the World Championship Individual Three Cushion billiards championship after entering the semi-finals of the Asian Billiards Championships in HCM City on Sunday.

President extends condolences to Russia; Vietnam, Chile boost parliamentary cooperation; Vietnam, Cambodia enhance transport cooperation; VN, Chile legislative bodies seek to enhance ties

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of foreign companies have arrived in Vietnam to explore the market and seek to buy the stakes of domestic postal service companies in the last half a year, since the day Vietnam fully opened its market to foreigners.

Extreme heat that has been baking much of U.S. Midwest and East Coast has relented on Monday, with rain and cooler temperatures reported in those parts of the country, while reports indicated the death toll of the heat wave has climbed to 74.

VietNamNet Bridge – A bus with nearly 50 Vietnamese tourists was overturned on its way from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh of Cambodia on July 7, causing one death and nine injuries.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh joined delegates from the nine other ASEAN member countries at the 45th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting, which opened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on July 9.

A bill requiring safety belts and stronger seating systems on bus proposed by a Vietnamese-American woman passed the US Senate and House on June 29 and is due to be signed by President Obama into law on July 10.

VietNamNet Bridge - A ceremony was held in Hanoi on July 8 to see off the Vietnamese sports delegation to Olympic London 2012.

VietNamNet Bridge - A group of international experts will arrive in Vietnam on July 11 to help the country create a tourism marketing strategy and an action plan for tourism development in the future.

VietNamNet Bridge – The mobile phone imports in the first six months of 2012 were 23 percent lower than that of the same period of the last year, which has been explained by the low demand in the economic crisis.

Online retail giant Amazon. com is developing a smartphone in an attempt to further crack the fiercely competitive market of mobile devices, U.S media reported Friday.

The visiting international envoy Kofi Annan said Monday he has concluded an approach with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad regarding ending the violence, adding that the approach will be also shared with the armed opposition.

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of steel enterprises have died actually, though none of them has declared bankruptcy.

The Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Central Bank Governor, the Chief Government Inspector and the Chief Judge of the People’s Supreme Court will be interpellated at the National Assembly session in August.