Viet Nam needs about VND600 trillion (nearly US$29 billion) to develop a domestic transportation infrastructure by 2015 to keep pace with a goal to become a middle-income industrialised country by 2020, according to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).

Livestock farmers are using feed with illegal additives that pose hazards to people's health, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat, noting that the problem was most widespread in the southern provinces.

Junk yards are wasting a large amount of prime real estate in Ha Noi, providing storage for automobiles and other vehicles that have been damaged in accidents, are no longer operational or are not roadworthy under the law.

“Turtle Soup’, by  the Ho Chi Minh City based independent film group Yeti, has won third prize in the Best Film category at the Canon International 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP).

VietNamNet Bridge - Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and Home Affairs Minister Nguyen Thai Binh will be questioned over pressing social pressing issues at the upcoming session of the National Assembly Standing Committee on March 12-21.

Three warships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force carrying 600 officers and crewmembers docked at Chua Ve port in Haiphong city on March 10.

Hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease has been spreading at an alarming rate across the country this year, with more than 12,000 cases reported in 60 provinces and cities, over 7 times more than the number recorded during the same period last year.

Nowadays, money is not the only thing that shows the upper class of billionaires. Possessing luxurious cars, aircrafts, watches, mobile phones, and especially the simcards worth several billions of dong, has become in fashion.

At 14:46 p.m. (GMT 0546) on Sunday Japan came to a standstill to observe a moment's silence for the nearly 16,000 lives lost when at exactly this time a year ago a massive earthquake struck the northeast coast, triggering a killer tsunami

Dollar demand dwindles; Prospects for boosting rice exports in 2012; A foreign fund eyes Vietnam’s real estate; Retail sales decline 2.5 percent in February; Vietnam lender BIDV plans to list June 26 - paper; Automobile market remains sluggish

Hue authorities have decided not to have an actor perform the role of a king for two traditional royal ceremonies that will be re-enacted at this year's Festival Hue, and have decided instead that a commoner would perform the rituals.

Movie critics are tipping one of three documentary films produced by the HCM City Television Film Studio (TFS) for the national Golden Kite award this year.

TV's chat show queen, Oprah Winfrey, has interviewed the late Whitney Houston’s 19 year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown. The result is set to be screened on Sunday, one month after the singer’s death.

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukia Amano said Friday in Vienna that nuclear power is safer than it was a year ago but the safety must never be taken for granted.

Information about the Hanoi 2012 International Piano Competition has appeared on www.alink-argerich.org, after it became a member of the Alink Argerich Foundation (AAF).

Top Vietnamese player Nguyen Tien Minh has failed in his quest for a repeat victory over world No.3 Chen Long from China in the second round of the Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships on March 9.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stressed Saturday that his country is ready to make any honest effort a success to solve the recent domestic unrest, state-run SANA news agency reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – The centralized wastewater treatment plant of the Long Thanh Industrial Park in southern Dong Nai Province has been caught polluting a canal for four years, an environmental agency said.

HCM City authorities have come up with a radical proposal to unclog city roads – allowing taxis to pick up passengers only at designated points rather than cruise around looking for them.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approves a strategy to develop public transport from now until 2020. The project is to ease traffic congestion and reduce accidents as well as environmental pollution in cities and provinces across the country.