VietNamNet Bridge - A Mercedes E300 car suddenly burst into flames at 2pm, December 18, while running on Nguyen Xien Road, Hanoi. When the fire was stamped out, the car consisted of ash and a carbonized frame.

Party leaders attending a two-day national meeting on reviewing the inspection and supervision tasks of Party members and organisations called for strict punishments to be meted out against those indulging in corrupt and wasteful acts.

The Government plans to tighten management and increase the economic effectiveness of economic zones, industrial zones and industrial clusters. Deputy head of the Central Institute for Economic Management Vo Tri Thanh talks about the issue.

The Ministry of Science and Technology will begin an investigation of all petrol and gas vendors nationwide next month, Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang has announced.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two South Korean movie stars--Kim Tae Hee and Song Seung Hun will be in Vietnam next month, when their TV series entitled “My Princess” is to be aired on a local channel.

VietNamNet Bridge – Gardeners in Hanoi’s famous flower and apricot village of Nhat Tan are in a hurry to cultivate trees to prepare for the lunar New Year (Tet holiday), which is coming in over a month.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday signed a document officially ending the Iraq War, after the last U.S. combat forces left that country.

The search and rescue operation at the second day on Sunday for about 217 missing migrants, as their wooden ship sank in waters off Trengglek district of East Java on Saturday, fails to find any one of them, a rescuer said.

Sector’s feet stuck in cement; Depreciation pressure stalks bullion price; Sugar surplus may be exported; Low-income families to get apartments; Pepper exports to hit 130,000 tonnes; US restaurant chains eye franchises in Vietnam

Four people were dead and 49 missing after a drilling platform with 67 people on board overturned in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East on Sunday, news agencies reported.

Vietnam's once-frenzied property market has ground to a halt, leaving local developers limping and international investors salivating at the chance of snapping up distressed deals.

The death toll from tropical storm Washi (or local name Sendong) in the Philippines rose to 497, with 162 others still missing, the Philippine Red Cross said Sunday.

British scientists have discovered a new way to target cancer through manipulating a master switch responsible for cancer cell growth. The findings, published Monday in the U.S. journal Cancer Cell, reveal how cancer cells grow faster

A lot of businesses keep a hesitant outlook about the merger and acquisition (M&A) which is booming in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Returning to Son My this time, at the age of 71, Ron Haeberle tried to please everyone, with his patience and enthusiasm. He seemed to try his best to compensate the pain in Son My.

The Police General Department under the Ministry of Public Securities has been keeping their eyes on the match fixing suspicion over the Vietnamese national football team at the 26th SEA Games last month in Indonesia.

VietNamNet Bridge – After falling twice with a total height of nearly 100 meters, Nguyen Tai Quyen, 27, still survives after one day in the forest of Yen Tu in Quang Ninh province.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade wants to move the nation away from traditional markets to a modern retail distribution system, accounting for 40 per cent of the total retail trade by 2020.

Japan is a potential software outsourcing market, but local companies are struggling.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tens of taxis of all colors run on Saigon’s streets, making traffic jams in the 10-million-people city more serious.