VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition painting by senior artists Dinh Cuong, Pham Van Hang, Hoang Trong Ban and Than Trong Minh, has opened at Tu Do Gallery in HCM City.

Major dailies in Vietnam in August 19 ran editorials highlighting the great significance of the August Revolution victory, which led to the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 66 years ago.

A controlled trial has found that Chinese herbal medicine decoction maxingshigan-yinqiaosan has a similar efficacy to oseltamivir in reducing time to fever resolution in people suffering mild H1N1 influenza virus infections.

VietNamNet Bridge – People are trying to build more and more hydropower plants to satisfy their thirst for power. However, when power plants are set up, the environment gets degrading and the tourism industry cannot develop.

Power shifts, interstate competition, military modernisation, institutional pressures: together, these factors are making Asia's waterways more contested, crowded and at risk of armed strife.

A series of terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Thursday left at least seven Israelis dead and several dozen others wounded.

VietNamNet Bridge – There have been signs showing that the interest rates have begun decreasing, but experts believe that the sharp falls will not occur.

Wall Street plummeted on Thursday as concerns over European debt problems and U.S. economic downturn spurred broad sell-off.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Dong Duong Buddhist College, a National Heritage site, would be given back its splendid beauty, a conference on the preservation of cultural relics in central Quang Nam Province was told on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The fact that travel firms and airlines decided to cooperate to develop MICE (meeting, incentives, conference, exhibition) tourism promises the bright prospect for the “no-smoke industry”.

A storm has killed three and injured some 40 people at a music festival in the eastern Belgian city of Hasselt on Thursday, said the Hasselt mayor.

VietNamNet Bridge – If you're looking to escape from the summer heat, you could do worse than hop on an overnight train to Sa Pa – after all, that was why the French established the hill station in the first place.

  $11,000 grant for overseas work; HCMC to use cameras for firefighting, rescue; Snap demonstrations, gatherings banned; Website on Vietnamese martyrs makes debut

VietNamNet Bridge – A month of films featuring Vietnamese revolutionaries will be screened by leading television stations beginning this weekend to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the August 1945 Revolution and Independence Day

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's futsal (indoor football) team will play against Malaysia in the opener in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Futsal Championship qualifiers.

VietNamNet Bridge - The first completely indigenous made-in-Vietnam oil-rig in Dai Hung Mine, 265 kilometers from the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau is now complete and fully operational.

The Enterprise Law, praised as making a breakthrough in creating a better business environment for enterprises by removing the discriminatory treatment on enterprises of different ownership forms and economic sectors, has shown a lot of problems.

Strengthening Vietnam-Indonesia relations; Phu Tho receives coral from Truong Sa archipelago; Irish ambassador to Vietnam honoured with Friendship Order

VietNamNet Bridge – Top national judo athlete Van Ngoc Tu, 24, left for France yesterday, Aug 18, to take part in the World Judo Championships which kicks off in Paris next Tuesday.

Investors in main European exchanges remain jittery over the globe growth after poor economic data in the European block and the United States sent low stocks on Thursday.