VietNamNet Bridge – Transport Minister Dinh La Thang has asked Hanoi and HCM City to research and add monorail networks to their public transport systems in order to curb congestion.

VietNamNet Bridge – V-League football club Sai Gon FC decided on Tuesday to dismiss its coach Lu Dinh Tuan after the club suffered its third successive defeat over the last three weeks.

Vietnamese officers awarded Australia Police’s top medal; President appoints new prosecuting staff; Deputy PM receives French business delegation; Vietnamese, Russian legislative bodies boost ties

VietNamNet Briege – More and more cruise travelers have arrived in Vietnam so far this year. Vietnam expects a bumper cruise tourism season in 2012 after a quiet year of 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – A national conference was held in Hanoi on April 3 and 4 to review external news service and the dissemination of information on the country’s seas, islands and border demarcation last year.

VietNamNet Bridge – At present, on Min Mountain, there are only four flocks of golden monkeys left, with 8-10 monkeys for each. Meanwhile, in the past, the mountains were the residing place for hundreds of flocks of monkeys.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Are you nuts?”, “Have you just returned from Trau Quy?” (Trau Quy is the name of a mental hospital), “I’ve never met such a stupid person like you”--are all words spoken out by teachers at their lessons.

VietNamNet Bridge – The price of The new iPad has been decreasing dramatically, by 4 million dong just two weeks after they hit the Vietnamese market.

The US hedge fund Elliott Advisers LP has decided to drop a lawsuit against the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin). Meanwhile, a Malaysian creditor has stated that the value of the loan provided by the bank to Vinashin is very small.

At least five people including a top sports official were killed and 10 others injured in a suicide bomb attack on a reopened theater in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses reported.

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that despite a recovering economy, the U.S. should be wary of cutting budget too much, in particular in areas such as education and social security.

U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Tuesday swept primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and District of Columbia, further solidifying his frontrunner status, putting more pressure on main rival Rick Santorum to quit.

VietNamNet Bridge – This famous French-Canadian pop punk band from Montreal, Canada will join the free concert MTV Exit at Hanoi’s My Dinh Stadium on May 26.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Wednesday filed charges against JPMorgan Chase Bank for its unlawful handling of Lehman Brothers Inc' customer segregated funds.

Amazon is testing a service that allows tablet users to make purchases through mobile applications, trying to take on Apple and Google in the mobile business, U.S. media reported on Tuesday.

About a dozen of tornadoes battered the U.S. state of Texas on Tuesday, wounding more than 10 people and causing widespread damage estimated to many millions of U.S. dollars.

Le Thanh Hai, Deputy Director of the National Hydro Meteorological Forecasting Centre said that storms and tropical depressions are now occurring more frequently in Vietnam and have become quite unpredictable.

Farmers now dare not to sell tra fish to seafood processing companies. Commercial banks have tightened the lending, making it unable for enterprises to collect fish. The tra farming has never fallen into such a difficult situation.

The tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious public health threat in Afghanistan as 10,500 people lost their lives because of TB each year, Afghan Public Health Minister Suraya Dalil said on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The “Die Untertanent” Choir from Germany will have a performance at the yard of the Goethe Institute at 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Hanoi, at 8pm of April 7.