Vietnam is still not a familiar destination for Japanese leisure travelers, even though Vietnam ranks 12th out of 30 countries welcoming Japanese visitors in 2010, said a Japanese tourism entrepreneur.

Eating lots of fruit and vegetables could help protect teenagers from mental health problems, according to an Australian study published on Thursday in the scientific journal PLoS One.

A company in Hong Kong (Viet Huong Company) has registered Phu Quoc fish sauce as its exclusive trademark in Hong Kong, China. Meanwhile, the Vietnamese Phu Quoc Fish Sauce proves to be too slow in making reactions to the behavior.

Tens of quarries are operating in the buffer zone and dozens of restaurants selling wild meat are located on the way to Phong Nha-Ke Bang national park in Quang Binh province, a world natural heritage. But the local authorities do nothing.

Oversupply depresses fruit prices; Phu Quoc mega project threat; Long Thanh investors to gain wings; Paper project set for wrap up; Property market pins hopes on trusts estate investment trusts; China probe policy slows rubber exports  

VietNamNet Bridge – A model posed with an elephant. Others played a tiger or a Roman warrior. Many contestants sought unique ideas for the outdoor photo shoot.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to his restive nation Friday morning from Saudi Arabia, the state-run TV and Saba news agency reported.

The Ministry of Health has claimed that so far 52,000 people from 61 cities and provinces across the country have contracted the hand-foot-mouth disease while 109 persons have succumbed to it, within this year.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued strict guidelines to limit motorcycle traffic in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on trial, as part of a pilot scheme to ease traffic congestion nationwide.

The UN highly values Vietnam ’s success in implementing millennium development goals (MDGs) as well as its effective participation in the “One-UN” initiative in the country.

Death toll from an epidemic of dengue fever, which has gripped Pakistan's most populous and eastern province of Punjab, has now reached 62 as another man died on Thursday, health officials and local media reported.

The baby formula prices have been decreasing significantly in the world market, but the prices are getting more and more expensive in the domestic market.

The digital gap between rural and urban areas remains a challenge for people in the rural communities of ASEAN member countries, who struggle to get better access to key services such as education and healthcare.

Campaign launched to promote Ha Long as world’s natural wonder; 40 years of German video art on display; Vietnam joins cultural fair in Netherlands; Hanoi to spend $37 mln on museum displays; Hanoi plans huge entertainment park complex       

VietNamNet Bridge – In autumn, the fields of Mu Cang Chai turn varying shades of brilliant yellow and are filled with life as ethnic Mong farmers, wearing traditional attire, harvest the abundance of ripe rice

National Assembly Chairman, Nguyen Sinh Hung, on September 21 announced the NA Standing Committee’s decision to appoint Nguyen Duc Hien, Vice Chair of the NA Office, as the chief of the NA’s Committee for People’s Aspirations.

VietNamNet Bridge –Vietnam’s top striker, Le Cong Vinh, and Hanoi T&T FC planed to sign their second 3-year contract today, September 23, but the striker changed his mind at the last minute.

Quang Nam province has decided to raise capital for the largest monument to pay tribute to mothers of martyred soldiers (called heroic mothers), to VND410 billion (nearly $20 million), five times higher than the initial investment estimate.

At least 30,000 in the southern Philippines have been displaced by flash floods in two days of heavy downpour, local official said on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the morning of September 20, finalists of the Vietnam Supermodel 2011, joined the swimsuit competition at Prenn Waterfall in Da Lat.