VietNamNet Bridge – The hand-foot-mouth disease spread rapidly in central and southern provinces last week, forcing many pre-schools to close down as a precaution.

VietNamNet Bridge – Haitang, the fourth tropical storm this year, is forecast to continue to intensify, bringing heavy rain to the central region and northern parts of the Central Highlands during the next few days.

The private Cuu Long Film Studio is working on a historical film about a national hero who led village militia to fight the French colonisers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.

Dioxin contamination at Da Nang Airport would be remediated by 2015, co-chair of the Joint Advisory Committee on Agent Orange Le Ke Son said at yesterday's press conference as the committee concluded its sixth meeting.

Viet Nam's trade deficit in the first nine months of the year reaches US$6.84 billion, equal to 9.7 per cent of the total export turnover, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has reported.

VietNamNet Bridge - On September 24, a century-old tree unexpectedly uprooted and fell on a group of foreign tourists who were waiting for their turn to get on the chutes at the Datanla Waterfall tourist site in Da Lat city, Lam Dong province.

An airplane of Nepal's Buddha Air crashed at Kotdanda of Lalitpur Sunday morning, leaving all the 19 passengers on board dead, local police said.

The Ministry of Home Affairs will propose an increase in the minimum wage for public servants and members of the armed forces to help ensure they can meet basic living needs.

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What will the Government do in order to awake the 500 tons of gold worth more than 20 billion dollars, now lying among people, and turn the gold into a national resource?

Vietnam’s first nuclear power may be unable to start running in 2020 as scheduled, said Dr. Tran Dai Phuc, a senior Vietnamese French nuclear expert who is teaching Vietnam’s key nuclear engineers.

A decommissioned U.S. science satellite fell back to Earth but its precise re-entry time and location remained unknown, the U.S. space agency NASA said Saturday.

A series of gunfire and bomb attacks, including four successive blasts in Iraq's holy Shi'ite city of Karbala, killed a total of 17 people and wounding dozens in a new escalation of violence in the country

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As a tropical depression in the East Sea is upgrading into a storm, central and southern Vietnam is suffering from more floods and heavy rain, the Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Center said.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan received delegates to the third Vietnam-China People’s Forum in Hanoi on Sunday, in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Kong Xuanyou.

Oc Om Boc, the annual Water Festival of the Khmer people, will this year coincide with the Vietnam Rice Festival in Soc Trang Province, home to a large community of the ethnic minority group.

Prudential staff charged for fleeing with $14mil; 18 fishermen return from Philippine captivity; 18 fishermen return from Philippine captivity

“Farmers now have no more tra fish to sell. They have given up farming. Seafood processing companies will face a serious material shortage in the time to come,” warned Deputy Chair of the An Giang Provincial Seafood Association (AFA), Le Chi Binh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many roads in HCM City are named after well-known men to commemorate these people, but the names are written wrongly.