The Olympic Flame for the 2012 London Games was welcomed with great enthusiasm in Athens, as it reached the Acropolis hill on Wednesday, finishing its long trip across Greece on the eve of the handover ceremony.

VietNamNet Bridge – At the third stage of the Asia Grand Prix 2012, Vietnamese athletes still performed very well but they could not reach standards to get a card to the Olympics.

A bus carrying nearly 60 passengers broke the banisters of Serepok Bridge on National Highway 14, which connects Dak Lak and Dak Nong provinces in central Vietnam, to fall into the river at night of May 17. Thirty-six people died.

Travel companies are offering huge promotional programmes and discount incentives of upto 30-40 per cent to lure travellers during this difficult economic time.

Vietnam has a trade promotion agency, in charge of running national trade promotion program, aiming to help Vietnamese exporters reach out to the world market. However, the agency remains helpless with “hand and foot bound.”

VietNamNet Bridge – In the past two months, up to 200 children have drowned in Vietnam, causing a big concern among the public.

Facebook Inc. on Wednesday increased its IPO shares by 84 million, totaling 421 million shares in an offering expected on Friday.

The HCM City inter-ministerial inspection delegation has found a series of real estate projects which have turned the land areas reserved for parks and verdure into the land for housing, office buildings and car parking lots.

Why do Hanoian parents all want to send their children to the Giang Vo Experimental School instead of other state owned schools in Hanoi? The answer lies in the “education technology” that the school is following.

Vinamilk imports 300 cows; Landmark Tower, nation's tallest, makes debut; Vietinbank to sell 20% to partner; Drought hits 50,000ha of crop; Quang Tri to host mid-year consultative meeting; Dung Quoc refinery temporarily closes for maintenance

Some 83 State-owned groups, corporations and four banks as of May 9 have registered to cut expenditures with a combined value of nearly VND13 trillion, but some experts have played down the significance of the figure.

Investigation police in the central province of Quang Binh have decided to bring to court the case of illegal removal of three sua trees, an endangered species in Viet Nam,

VietNamNet Bridge – Spreading nails has become a big trouble for travelers on Can Tho Bridge, the longer cable-stayed bridge in Southeast Asia. Can Tho City’s Chair Nguyen Thanh Son instructed police to deal with the matter.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport started inspections on the usage and management of pavements in HCM City yesterday after a similar 20-day-long initiative in Ha Noi conducted to curb illegal activities in big cities.

VietNamNet Bridge – There are 1,700 vocational training schools in Vietnam which annually provide more than 1.6 million technical workers but the market is still running short of highly skilled workers.

The British a capella group Black Voices, who built up their reputation for delivering stunning performances through soulful and inspirational harmonic blends, will have their Viet Nam debut performance in HCM City on Sunday.

The U.S. stocks failed to hold early gains on Wednesday and ended lower for the third straight day, as fears about Europe continued to weigh on the market.

Tam wins 2nd stage, Tung retains yellow; Futsal championships to attract top teams; Duyen fails to qualify for London Games

VietNamNet Bridge – A serious traffic accident happened on National Highway 1A in the southern province of Dong Nai on May 16, killing two and injuring 16 others.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on Tuesday ordered the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to make the schedule to use bio-fuel compulsorily by next year.