Summer proves to be the busiest time for “star” schools, because it is the time for them to enroll students for the new academic year.

The U.S. stocks tumbled on Monday as S&P 500 and Nasdaq Index both dropped more than 6 percent and Dow lost more than 600 points after a historic downgrade of U.S. credit rating by Standard & Poor's.

Contrary to the predictions given before, when Vietnam began joining WTO that domestic distributors would be “swallowed” by foreign groups, Vietnamese enterprises have been growing and becoming more and more competitive.

VietNamNet Bridge – Of 1,728 Chinese nationals working at the construction site of the Ca Mau Urea Plant, part of the Ca Mau Gas-Power-Fertilizer complex, 1,051 have yet to obtain a work permit.

The streets of London were hit on Monday evening with a third night of violence as rioters attacked police, set fire to cars and looted shops in areas across the capital, which pressed Prime Minister David Cameron to cut short his holiday.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) is collecting users' opinions on how to efficiently utilise the current mobile phone number repository.

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign driven mergers and acquisitions are becoming a common landmark in Vietnam’s business landscape.

Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Monday hit an all-time record after Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. credit rating, triggering wide concerns over the world's largest economy.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local authorities and industrial enterprises, in a master plan to protect the environment, are moving ahead with the projects on generating electricity from organic rubbish and redundant heat in the production process.

VietNamNet Bridge – The newly elected Minister of Finance, Vuong Dinh Hue has stated that one of the important tasks that he will do during his term is to make the petroleum prices; but how? Independent auditing would be the best solution.

VietNamNet Bridge - The new National Assembly (NA) tenure should not change its function, but the way it carries out activities to serve the people more effectively, said NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung.

VietNamNet Bridge – New policies on granting zero tax and favourable business conditions to State-run companies are discouraging private firms from taking part in a plan to replace petrol with energy-efficient fuel.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said yesterday it would check on whether small and medium hydro-electric plants in 15 northern mountainous provinces complied with environmental regulations.

Ha Noi stops building Nguyen Du – Le Duan resettlement area; 3 buses race on bridge, one dead; Tien Giang Province to build 500 storm shelters; HCM City woman stabbed 14 times in public

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has protested over China’s acts of violating the sovereignty and jurisdictional rights of Vietnam and asked that it immediately cease and refrain from recurrence of similar acts.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three Vietnamese martial artists will participate in the 2011 World Martial Arts Festival in Chungju, South Korea, today, Aug 9.

Spending over half of a billion dong ($30,000) to go to South Africa for the World Cup, exploring flares at all stadiums where the V-League is held, quitting job to follow his favorite team… That’s the man who is called “Hoan say” (drunken Hoan).

After seven seasons of tangled mysteries, messy marriages and nervous breakdowns, ABC executives and the producers of "Desperate Housewives" announced the eighth and upcoming season would be the show's last,

VietNamNet Bridge – A photo contest on the theme of Vietnamese-Japanese cultural exchange has been launched for both residents and visitors to Hoi An.

VietNamNet Bridge – Defending V-League champions Ha Noi T&T will be eyeing top spot when they visit Khanh Hoa tomorrow, Aug 10, for their delayed 13th-round match in the central city of Nha Trang.