Speedboat on Sa Ky-Ly Son route launched; Airport detects 1.62 kg of drugs hidden in handbag; HCM City curbs traffic congestion; 8 former Vinh Phuc officials indicted for corruption

VietNamNet Bridge – Ms. Bui Thi Vinh and Mr. Ha Van Toi, 91, in the southern province of Ben Tre, have officially become wife and husband on June 4.

Southeast Asia will be stable if there is a strong Vietnam or strong Philippines, and the region will be unstable if there are only weak countries in the region, said US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai joined soldiers and volunteers to plant mangrove forest in Ha Long city, of the northern port city of Quang Ninh on June 3.

VietNamNet Bridge – Goalkeeper Duong Hong Son is suspected to be out of inspiration to devote himself to the national football team because he reported of being wounded right before the national team was summoned.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the afternoon of June 3, a young man climbed up on banister of the second floor of a house under construction on Ton That Tung road in District 1, HCM City, and threatened suicide.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said the Vietnamese government would strictly punish violators, but the information released by Denmark in the three projects--that it had stopped funding, still needs to be verified.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam pocketed five gold medals at the 2012 Asia Rowing Cup which just finished in Singapore.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two women in the central province of Binh Dinh have been arrested for resisting against law enforcement employees.

VietNamNet Bridge – Only 50 percent of the premises in industrial zones (IZ) and 26.4 percent in industrial complexes have been occupied due to the oversupply of industrial zones.

A total of 137 bodies have so far been recovered from the site of the passenger plane which crashed into a two-storey building in Southwest Nigeria's Lagos State on Sunday,

VietNamNet Bridge – A new form of identity card will be piloted in Hanoi in the third quarter of this year before being introduced to all citizens nationwide in 2016, according to a circular of the Ministry of Public Security.

VietNamNet would like to introduce a series of articles about the presidential election in the US, by G. Calvin Mackenzie, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of Government at Colby College  and currently a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam.

On the eve of the mid-term Consultative Group meeting in Quang Tri province, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Cao Viet Sinh said that Vietnam’s official development assistance usage efficiency  has made significant progress.

The Ministry of Health has announced that among the 200,000 patients infected with HIV in Vietnam currently, 5,000 are pregnant women.

British Queen Elizabeth II on Monday joined a crowd of tens of thousands at a concert of pop, rock, and classical music held on a stage outside Buckingham Palace as one of the highlights of the four-day Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Viet Nam had achieved results in its efforts to control inflation and maintain macro-economic stability in the first five months, a report from the Ministry of Planning and Investment said yesterday.

State management agencies would inspect foreign-invested projects periodically or unexpectedly in a bid to guarantee the effects of legal regulations under a draft circular newly released by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday morning, kicking off a state visit to China.

The northern province of Tuyen Quang will compile a dossier on the traditional Then singing of the Tay ethnic minority, to submit to UNESCO for recognition as an intangible world cultural heritage.