The World Bank's Institutional Development Fund (IDF) has attributed 247 million U.S. dollars support to Egypt, state media reported on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Businesses have complained that they have incurred big losses due to the “dirty PR campaigns” on the Internet carried out by their rivals. Meanwhile, the penalties prove to be not heavy enough to render the violators.

Vietnamese church group meets at Da Nang; Swindler turns herself in to police; More 220 Long Thanh households get Vedan compensation

Tens of clean water pumping stations have been built in the communes in the outskirts of Hanoi to bring clean water to local residents - in the context of the serious underground water pollution.

In a bid to prevent millions of deaths and suffering every year from malnutrition, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) launched an online initiative on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fifteen young artists from the Viet Nam Circus Federation are participating at the 10th International Circus Festival in Havana, capital of Cuba.

Football's world governing body FIFA announced Wednesday that six match officials were banned from all football-related activities, both at national and international level, for life.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Perseid meteors can be observed from August 9 through 17 in big cities in Vietnam. Astronomy clubs will organize observation of this interesting phenomenon.

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of economic groups and general corporations are trying to sell stakes in order to reduce the investments in non-core business fields, because they know that they will have to do this, sooner or later.

U.S. stocks tumbled on Wednesday with all three major indexes down more than 4 percent, as investors concerns about the economy and rumors said France might lose its triple-A credit rating.

Lao Party General Secretary and State President Choummaly Sayasone, along with his wife and a high-ranking delegation of the Lao Party and State, departed from the central city of Da Nang on August 10, wrapping up a friendly official visit

VietNamNet Bridge - Third generation (3G) mobile service providers want to claim back over VND4 trillion in deposits from the Ministry of Information and Communications to cope with their capital shortfalls.

Vietnam, Russia boost cooperation; Party, State and NA leaders meet voters; Vietnamese, Cambodian navies boost ties

VietNamNet Bridge – Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA) reached the finals for the second time in a row at the National Cup after beating Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) 2-1 in the semifinal yesterday at Vinh Stadium.

VietNamNet Bridge - Central Thua Thien Hue Province's People's Committee plans to invest over VND23 billion (US$1.1 million) to host National Tourism Year 2012.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh beat Indian P Kasyap 24-22, 17-21, 22-20 to qualify for the men's singles third round at Yonex Badminton World Federation (BWF) Championship in London, England, last night.

VietNamNet Bridge –The arts troupe of the International Children's Creative Camp Nuckids 2011 will visit Viet Nam on August 14-18.

VietNamNet Bridge – Over 403,000 blood units were collected nationwide in the first six months of this year, accounting for about 53 per cent of this year's target, reports National Steering Committee of Voluntary Blood Donation.

Current tensions over the East Sea began in 2009 after the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf set a deadline for submitting claims for extended continental shelves beyond UNCLOS’s 200 nautical miles.

He has traveled to Vietnam several times in the last 12 years with his family but until 2012, the relations between Zoedonne, a former member of the Australian national rowing team, and the Vietnamese rowing squad began.