China’s unilateral fishing ban in the East Sea violates Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, and its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over its exclusive economic zones and continental shelf.

The money remitted by overseas Vietnamese (Viet Kieu) to Vietnam has been poured into the real estate sector.

VietNamNet Bridge – Travelling back and forth along busy Dinh Liet Street, not many people catch a glimpse of the old garden house – the oldest of its type still standing in Ha Noi. Follow the small lane through a moss-covered arch,

The Construction Ministry has proposed to the Prime Minister that measures must be taken to control capital flows into the property market to prevent speculation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Less migrant workers can afford to go home this Tet for their year-end reunion with their families because of high inflation, decreased incomes and increased transportation fees.

The Saigon River has a host of tributaries, of which many have remained heavily polluted but some have been cleaned up, allowing fish to return.

VietNamNet Bridge – About 1,500 Vietnamese, including overseas Vietnamese, have booked Lunar New Year or Tet tours with Saigontourist Travel Service Co. to take a closer look at pre-Tet activities around the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is a mix of old and new customs and ideas, especially at holiday time. It's usual at this time of year for everyone to get a little more money. This is either to reward them for hard work over the past year

Professor Nguyen Lan Dung, a well known Vietnamese scientists, met with scientists at the second congress of the Scientific Association of human resources development in Vietnam in January and shared stories about how to use talents.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will take part at the Southeast Asian Table Tennis Championship in Thailand without key member Doan Kien Quoc, who has decided to make way for younger table tennis talent.

British researchers have uncovered a gene which plays a key role in the development of oesophageal cancer (cancer of the gullet), according to a study published online Thursday in American Journal of Human Genetics.

VietNamNet recalls the suggestions which were considered as the oddest ones in 2011. They were also the most objectionable proposals.

VietNamNet Bridge – Well-known fashion designer Vo Viet Chung has introduced his latest ao dai collection named “Spring Dream” to celebrate the New Year 2012.

Fearing that the investment would lead to the higher production costs, Vietnamese enterprises still hesitate to join the program on labeling products as energy saving products.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s Chairman Nguyen The Thao has assigned relevant agencies to research on the controversial circulation fee.

The 2011 automobile market was gloomy with no growth rate and the sales just equal to that of 2010. A lot of automobile manufacturers reportedly meet difficulties.

The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred

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VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese-Vietnamese contemporary dance artist Michiyo Pham Nga will perform in Ha Noi on Sunday to celebrate the lunar New Year.

20 Vietnamese crewmen return home; VietinBank hands over 200 houses for the poor in Kon Tum; Harassing flight attendant, passenger handcuffed