Renowned French pianist makes fourth visit to Hanoi; Vietnamese horror film receives US film festival invitations; Vietnamese beauties present gifts to needy people; Top Vietnam Idol wins Favourite Song Award

Many customers want McDonald's Corp to release more information on so-called "pink slime", after the company officially denied the use in its hamburger products in China, but McDonald's said on Sunday it had no plans

The National Programme for Energy Efficiency and Conservation will need around VND1 trillion (US$48 million) to save between five and eight per cent of the nation's total energy consumption by 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – It is a chilly winter morning and darkness covers everything. Drops of rain can be heard falling from the roof. While most people are still curled up in warm blankets, three youths rush to the Saturday market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh will make a working visit to the US from February 7-18.

“Exhausted liquidity”, “faint confidence” are the true words to describe the current situation of the stock market.

A series of complicated legal disputes involving Shiseido Cosmetics Vietnam, its local partner Thuy Loc Company Ltd and some investors in their retail network has resulted in the shutdown of 40 retail outlets, leaving 200 employees without jobs.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's largest internet security firm BKAV today said police had seized the perpetrator who hacked into its website, paralysing it since last Friday.

 $4 million project helps diagnose TB; Gratis language classes at city pagoda; Ha Noi okays road upgrade, expansion; HCM City's ageing bridges ‘a threat'

The White House said on Monday that President Barack Obama has ordered the freezing of Iran's property under U.S. jurisdiction, including that of the country's central bank, as the U.S. and its allies are pressing hard over

US Ex-Im Bank to prioritize credit for Vietnamese SMEs; Stocks gain on improved market value; Bad debts hit record high; Poor Tet sales leave firms with stockpiles; Shrimp exporters secured of material

Small and medium carriers in Hanoi complain that the demand is too low in the first month of the Lunar New Year in comparison with the previous years, though it is now the festival season.

The death toll from the maganitude 6. 7 earthquake that jolted the central Philippine province of Negros Oriental on Monday rose to 52, local officials said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is listed amongst the top ten countries with the worst air pollution in the world, according to the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) released during this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam table tennis players were ousted from the Southeast Asian zone qualifiers for the London Olympic after losing to Singaporean rivals in the quarter-finals in Thailand yesterday, Feb 6.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam would take tough measures against violators of food safety law, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said

Some commercial banks which are holding big amounts of gold, have proposed to allow them to export gold in order to improve the liquidity.

VietNamNet Bridge – A large number of dead fish have washed up with rubbish in the famed Ho Xuan Huong Lake of Da Lat’s tourist hotspot in the central highlands’ province, Lam Dong.

VietNamNet Bridge – President Truong Tan Sang on Feb. 5 received foreign poets who are in Vietnam to attend the first Asia-Pacific Poetry Festival.

VietNamNet Bridge – The movie Lost in Paradise by director Vu Ngoc Dang will be screened at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival which will take place from February 9-19.