After completing necessary preparations, Vietnam will switch from firing squad to lethal injection for executions in January 2012.

Vietnam always welcomes US businesses to invest and do business in the country, said National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung.

Foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations kicked off discussions yesterday to prepare for a series of summits among their leaders, as well as with their partners, including Japan and the United States.

VietNamNet Bridge – Judo queen Van Ngoc Tu will attempt her fifth SEA Games crown tomorrow in Indonesian.

Police in the U.S. city of New York cleared up Zuccotti Park early Tuesday after Occupy Wall Street protesters encamped for two months and arrested around 200 protesters for resisting orders.

In order to buy or sell banks, it is necessary to find out the real value of the banks. Meanwhile, this proves to be a very difficult work in the current circumstances.

VietNamNet Bridge – Works by Viet Nam's pioneer artist Le Pho are among the highest priced items listed at an autumn sale in Hong Kong by the Larasati Auctioneers showing on November 26.

The overloading can be seen at all nursery schools in the districts of the inner city of Hanoi. The city’s authorities understand that it is necessary to build more schools, but there is no land for schools.

The consequences caused by hydropower plants are bigger than people thought previously. Especially, these include the death toll which hydropower plant investors usually ignore.

Vietnam does not lack ideas for robots. However, inventors always have to travel a long distance to turn the ideas into realistic. They are compared as excellent, but poor students, who do not have money to develop their ideas.

VietNamNet Bridge – A climate innovation centre will be set up in Viet Nam to promote climate technology by offering venture finance and other support for small and medium enterprises.

Foreign investors are warning of a slump in foreign direct investment if Vietnam’s policy-makers green-light a controversial rule.

Vitamin D levels are significantly lower in patients with recurrent inflammatory spinal cord disease, according to a study published online Monday in Archives of Neurology.

The European Union (EU) unveiled Tuesday proposals to toughen regulations on credit rating agencies (CRAs) to prevent them from "increasing market volatility further."

Disturbing graphic contents like pornographic pictures and mutilates animal images are spreading across Facebook on Tuesday in a likely widespread spam attack.

Germany sealed the first victory since 1996 against the Netherlands attributed to a faultless performance by the German team against lax Dutchmen in front of home crowd in Hamburg on Tuesday.

Due to the liquidity problems, some commercial banks try to “risk their lives” to attract more deposits by offering the interest rates higher than the allowed levels.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam will invest VND3 trillion (around $150 million) to train human resources for the nuclear power sector from now to 2020.

Hoi An city at night is a fascinating mixture of history, culture, architecture and human life. 

VietNamNet Bridge – On weekends, many people group up at coffee shops near Thien Quang Lake in downtown Hanoi to show off their birds or to listen to birds singing.