VietNamNet Bridge – On National Highway 8A, around 500m from Duc Tho town in the central province of Ha Tinh, there are many people selling wild birds. Behind them are harvested fields with bird nets.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese delegation and the South African Department of Environmental Affairs signed an agreement on protecting rhinos on September 28.

VietNamNet Bridge – After the bell signals the lecture time, Buddhist students at the Vietnam Buddhism Institute in Soc Son district, Hanoi, hurriedly go to the lecture hall with books and laptops.

Dissolved foreign-invested enterprises are hurting local banking institutions.

Libya's fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi Thursday said in an audio message that conditions in the North African country are "unbearable now," calling on the Libyans to demonstrate in their millions, according to the Syria-based Arrai television.

The Greek government approved on Thursday plans for oil exploration and drilling in western Greece that could raise up to 25 billion euros (33.57 billion U.S. dollars) in revenues in the next two decades.

The 5,000m world champion Mo Farah of Britain and 800m world champion Mariya Savinova of Russia was named European male and female athlete of the year respectively on Wednesday.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) representative for Indonesia Angela Kearney said on Thursday that Indonesia's infant mortality rate is still high although it showed a downward trend in the past few years, local media reported.

Although she no longer hosts a top- rating television talk show, Oprah Winfrey still keeps her money- making title as the highest-earning woman in entertainment, according to latest Forbes magazine.

A pandemic collapse in business optimism during the third quarter of 2011 lays bare the dramatic impact of economic uncertainty and financial instability on the global business community, including Vietnam.

Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday.

Los Angeles County Coroner's Office coroner investigator Elissa Fleak testified on Wednesday that she found 12 vials of the anesthetic Propofol, determined as the drug which played a vital role in Michael Jackson's death,

Rice exporters shrug off global ranking; Local airports report massive losses; Japan to favor female employees from Vietnam; Kuwait gets funding for Vietnam refinery-KUNA; Vietnamese still doubt market economy   

VietNamNet Bridge – The third ASEAN Food Security Conference with the theme of food trade, investment and food security wrapped up in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Oct. 5.

The fact that a lot of foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) have fled, refused to pay debts and carried out the so called “price transfer” to evade taxes, has been blamed on the management loosening by state management agencies.

New fund to help fishermen; Lam Dong cop in the dock for gun threat; HCM City to recruit 95,000 labourers in Q4; Illegal coal mining 'causing land subsidence'

VietNamNet Bridge - The 26-year-old woman in Ben Tre Province who looks like a 70-year old woman can become young again, doctors said.

The Government on October 5, submitted the draft amended Labor Code to the National Assembly Standing Committee, in which the maternity leave is five months, one month less than the Ministry of Labor’s suggestion.

VietNamNet Bridge – The most famous fashion show in Vietnam will introduce collections of ten well-known designers in HCM City on October 15.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang told an online newspaper that he had proposed to destroy vehicles of illegal racers, but the idea is not approved yet.