VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's top chess player Le Quang Liem defeated 22-year-old Anna Muzychuk in the penultimate match of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival in the UK on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – High-ranking Party, State and National Assembly officials joined representatives from ministries, agencies and localities to visit former Party General Secretary Do Muoi on his 95th birthday yesterday, Feb 2.

VietNamNet Bridge – The US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, had a meeting with a number of Vietnamese officials in Hanoi on Feb. 2 as part of his visit to Vietnam.

Directors of travel firms have pointed out the biggest problems of Vietnam’s tourism and discussed what Vietnam should do to improve the situation.

A lot of fuel saving devices have been launched into the market, especially after the petrol price began increasing continuously. Especially, fuel-saving tablets have also been marketed.

71 percent of lakes have incurred organic pollution, of which 14 percent have got very seriously polluted, 25 percent seriously and 32 percent have shown signs of getting polluted.

After the Tet holiday, foreign rice importers have returned to Vietnam, but not to sign contracts. They just try to explore the situation.

VietNamNet Bridge – South Korean artists have gathered for the grand opening of Lotte Cinema Landmark Ha Noi, which will kick off Korean Movie Week starting today, Feb 3.

VietNamNet Bridge – Young Vietnamese tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien lost to Kang Ku-keon of South Korea 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 in the quarter-finals of the New Zealand 18 &Under Summer Championships in Auckland yesterday, Feb 2.

U.S. carrier American Airlines said Wednesday that it wants to eliminate 13,000 jobs as it seeks to cut labor costs by 20 percent.

Doan Van Vuon, who was arrested after a violent stand-off on January 5 against local authorities trying to repossess 40 hectares of public land rented to them, says he doesn’t want an attorney defense.

VietNamNet Bridge – To ensure security at the football game between Saigon FC and Hai Phong FC at HCM City’s Thong Nhat Stadium this Saturday, February 4, up to 250 police officers will be mobilized.

By the end of 2012, about 130 billion dong would be funneled to the pilot program on making teaching aids for nursery and general schools nationwide.

It is now considered the worst time for the housing market as the prices have been falling down dramatically. However, if reviewing the market over the last 20 years, one can see that the land and houses have become 100 times more expensive.

Hong Kong's total retail sales value in December 2011, provisionally estimated at 43 billion HK dollars, increased 23.4 percent over a year earlier, the city's Census and Statistics Department announced here Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge introduces latest pictures of Bao Tran, the most famous teen model in Vietnam. In these photos, Bao Tran posed in Vietnamese ao dai at a park in central HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Vietnam has many fascinating things to discover but it’s the best if you discover them yourself.”

Massage helps relieve pain in damaged muscles by sending anti-inflammation messages to muscle cells, according to a Canadian study published Wednesday in the online edition of Science Translational Medicine.

As Arab and Western countries exert power at the UN Security Council over the Syrian crisis, observers believe that the next few days are crucial for the country which has lived under the brunt of violence for more than 10 months.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and former General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party Le Kha Phieu on February 1 paid a visit to Regiment 940 and Division 372 of the national air force stationed in Binh Dinh.