VietNamNet Bridge – Children should be taught life skills at an early age, educational experts told the Khoa hoc and Doi song (Science and Life) newspaper.

VietNamNet Bridge – Film studios are likely to make 5,000 TV serials this year, compared to just 50 a decade ago, but many filmmakers are worried about their quality.

VietNamNet Bridge - A rise in the number of strikes at Vietnam-based, foreign-invested enterprises has sparked calls for an overhaul of the current salary regime.

VietNamNet Bridge – Striker Nguyen Ngoc Thanh and goalkeeper Nguyen Manh Dung will be participating in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers' training session, according to the Viet Nam Football Federation.

VietNamNet Bridge – South Korean-based KBS TV station will launching its reality TV Shootdori in Viet Nam under the name Football Kids in August.

VietNamNet Bridge - Homebuyers in the capital are paying far more than HCM City residents despite lower per capita incomes.

To date, 50 investment and purchase affairs, where investors inject money in Internet service companies have been reported. Meanwhile, investors are continuing seeking new investment opportunities in the companies.

At least five people were killed and some 25 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack in the southern Iraqi port of Basra on Monday, a local police source said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The credit growth rate of many commercial banks has nearly reached or exceeded the allowed level of 20 percent. Therefore, banks now have to restrict disbursement and seek new channels to spend their money.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key renewed his pledge Monday that the country 's second largest city of Christchurch would be rebuilt after a series of fresh tremors rocked the city, injuring dozens of people.

Lebanese new government was appointed by an official decree on Monday, after almost five months that the former national unity government collapsed in January.

VietNamNet Bridge - A US senator on June 13 urged condemnation of China's behavior in maritime rifts with its neighbors, saying Washington has been too weak-kneed as tensions rise in the East Sea.

VietNamNet Bridge - Popular Korean boy band 2AM captivated hearts of Vietnamese fans after performing at Hanoi’s My Dinh National Stadium in “The TAL with 2AM” show on June 10.

VietNamNet Bridge - The broad coastal area in My An commune, Phu My district of Binh Dinh province has been devastated with dense on-sand shrimp ponds.

The disbursement of ODA capital in the first five months of 2011 reached $1.26 billion, 52.5 percent of the yearly plan. The figure shows the differences in this year’s ODA picture.

VietNamNet Bridge – June is the highest peak time of the students, who take the entrance exam to high schools. The exam to the 10th grade is considered the toughest exam of general school students.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the struggling to defend the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea, there are great contributions from normal people who are working with industry and cleverness. They are call barefoot heroes.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Record Book Center (Vietking) on June 11, made public 11 Vietnam’s records at the closing ceremony of the Quang Binh Province’s Cultural-Tourism Week 2011.

A series of tremors Monday disrupted an inquest into the deaths of 116 people killed in the CTV building during the Feb. 22 earthquake in New Zealand's second city of Christchurch.

VietNamNet Bridge - The pink lotus will likely become Vietnam’s national flower after the fragrant plant was voted the most popular in polls conducted in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang.