VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has ordered the Ministry of Education and Training to issue within one month a master plan on human resources development in the education sector for the 2011-2020 period.

VietNamNet Bridge – The treatment and disposal of medical waste has become a serious problem in the southern city of Can Tho.

Vietnam has been well-known as a big exporter and Vietnamese goods have been consumed all over the world. However, very few consumers can cite specific trademarks of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – With two weeks before the Mid-autumn Festival, which will fall on September 12, has paper-made unicorn head making enterprises very busy in the central city of Hue.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many senior artists have sent a group petition to the President, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; to complain about the Vietnam Cinema Agency’s loss of VND42 billion ($2 million).

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Global leaders Saturday called for joint efforts to shore up the sagging economic recovery, as the world economic growth has entered a critical and erratic phase.

VietNamNet Bridge – This year Vietnam will continue its bilateral dialogues on defense, at the deputy minister level with China, India, the USA, Singapore and possibly with Japan and South Korea for the first time.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Tien Minh of Viet Nam took his first title of the year yesterday after winning the Yonex Sunrise Viet Nam Grand Prix Open in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – While dozens of drama troupes in the north have signed to perform in a professional festival highlighting comic actors, HCM City has decided to ignore the event.

VietNamNet Bridge – Navibank Sai Gon will represent Viet Nam at the Asian Football Confederation Cup next year, after winning the National Cup on Saturday.

VietNamNet Bridge – A regulation stipulating that English language teachers must achieve required scores on international English tests come into force with the start of the new academic year, but many teachers are unable to meet

National chess championship 2011 opens in Dong Thap; VN origin player for French side; Viet Nam jump 15 football spots; Grandmasters off to Kuala Lumpur 

VietNamNet Bridge - Binh Dinh Province and HCM City leaders yesterday discussed plans to promote martial arts and other cultural activities in the province as a tourism attraction.

VietNamNet Bridge - For years, every time it rains heavily, the altar in the One Pillar Pagoda gets wet due to leaks in the roof.

The Ministry of Education and Training has ordered all schools and education centres to stop charging parents additional fees under a newly issued document from Deputy Minister Nguyen Vinh Hien.

Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the 20th and 21st centuries.

Large numbers of stock brokers working at securities firms these days have no choice but to quit their jobs as a result of the current stagnation of the stock market which has made it impossible for employers to make salary payments.

3000 businesses reportedly stopped operation in the first six months of the year, while a survey on 400 businesses shows that most of the financial reports predict losses, instead of profits, for 2011.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Saturday that the world risks a 7-year recession due to slowdown and debt troubles in America, Europe and Japan, urging debt-ridden countries resort to drastic austerity.