At least 50 people were killed and over 100 others were injured when a suicide bomb attack hit a mosque packed with hundreds of prayers in northwest Pakistan Friday afternoon, reported local Urdu TV channel Express.

VietNamNet talks with Nguyen Chinh Tam, the writer of a series of three analyses “Seeking a new order in the East Sea”, to make clear his idea of institutionalizing the East Sea disputes, in order to seek a reasonable and fair solution.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Le Cong Vinh, Vietnam’s leading striker, said he would disclose the new destination after the game against Song Lam Nghe An FC.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam's bond market has experienced a significant year-on-year rise in growth during early 2011 compared with 2009 and 2010.

The Hanoi authorities have ordered an end to all unprompted gatherings, demonstrations and marches in the capital city after around ten spontaneous demonstrations against China’s intrusion of Vietnam’s sea and island sovereignty in the city. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Linh Nga, the most famous dancer in Vietnam, and her younger brother, Vietnamese two-chord fiddle player, performed together in a dance show entitled “Lotus” at the Hanoi Friendship Palace on August 15-16.

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.

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