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A mass wedding ceremony, the largest of its kind, was held for 80 couples of workers in Ho Chi Minh City on November 11.

The potential impacts of hydroelectric power projects to be built on the main streams of the Mekong River were assessed at a seminar in Hanoi on November 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Construction is targeting an increase of 100,000sq.m of housing space each year during the 2011-20 period in an effort to meet demands and raise living standards.

VietNamNet Bridge – Canoeist Tran Van Long won Viet Nam its first medal in the C1 1,000m at the 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games yesterday morning, Nov 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoian office worker Tran Thi Bich Ngan wanted to find somewhere to relax at he weekends following a hard five days spent at work.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly declared yesterday that individuals found to be in violation of measurement regulations would be subjected to administrative punishment or face legal action, depending on the severity of the infringement.

Training human resources for the nuclear power sector will be the top priority in Vietnam’s National Nuclear Power Programme until 2020, says Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Dinh Tien.

Viet Nam always attached importance to its relations with the United States as a partner of strategic importance and praised the increased co-operation between the US and regional countries for peace, stability and development,

For the last two months, a man in Ho Chi Minh City has managed to register under his name nearly 40 new businesses as subsidiaries of a Da Nang-based company with dubious operation.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  The capital People's Committee has called on district authorities to halt the issue of licences allowing cars to park on city pavements.

Though the World Wild Life (WWF) last month announced the Javan Rhino is now extinct in Vietnam, local scientists and experts have said that a few rhinos may be still living in the Cat Tien National Park.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to implement an extended project to promote computer usage and public internet access in Vietnam in the 2011-2016 period.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rampant and illegal forest exploitation has been identified as one cause deforestation, according to the Viet Nam Administration of Forestry.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to more than 1,200 retailers, the majority of which respond to violations relating to selling tobacco to minors, as part of its ongoing effort to reduce tobacco use among children,

Lying on Luoi Hai Mountain, Choi Waterfall is the diamond of Cu Dong Commune, Thanh Son District, Phu Tho Province.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to amend a governmental decree regulating the operation of representative offices and branches of international companies in Viet Nam.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met a group of U.S. business representatives in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Thursday to discuss expansion of China-U.S. trade cooperation.

The announcement of the US investor First Solar to halt the construction of the solar panel factory in Cu Chi district of HCM City has raised a worry that the investor may stop investing in Vietnam or narrow the project scale.

Using its near-infrared vision to peer nine billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population of young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation,