Persistent rainfall in Kien Giang Province of the Mekong delta in the last few days combined with high tide has inundated hundreds of hectares of summer-winter rice crops. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Concerns have been raised about the feasibility of the proposed housing fund for low-income earners.

First in six years, Russia and the United Kingdom resumed top-level talks here on Monday, but leaders from the two countries still remained divided on certain issues.

The underdevelopment of supporting industries in Vietnam has been cited as the reason why foreign investors develop their multi-million dollar projects in other regional countries, instead of Vietnam.

The resort industry has developed for few years and is still a potential market, but the area of growth does not have a general plan of future development and lacks professional investors, experts say.

The three-day Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) exhibition opened Friday in the Flower Garden Hirschstetten in Vienna, with the aim to introduce traditional Chinese medicine to the Austrians

European network operators, who have been pioneering in applying 4G technology, incline towards choosing 1800 MHz waveband, while Vietnamese Viettel believes that the 700 MHz waveband would be more suitable to the current conditions of Vietnam.

An explosion at the Marcoule nuclear site in the south of France on Monday killed one person and injured four others, local media reported.

Former chief Cabinet secretary Yukio Edano will become Japan's new industry minister, replacing Yoshio Hachiro, who resigned after making insensitive remarks over people affected by the Fukushima nuclear crisis,

The worst is over for Vietnam’s economy but the macroeconomic situation remains fragile, warned the National Financial Supervisory Commission in its latest report.

VietNamNet Bridge – Not very far from a rice field which is in the harvest time, the Arun Bopea casino appears outstandingly. Behind its door, more than 200 gamblers, most of Vietnamese, are shouting around a cock-fighting ground.

A number of local and foreign airlines have announced to discount fares for their flights between Vietnam and other destinations in a move to beef up bookings after the summer holiday.

Digital printing would develop strongly in future, replacing offset printing and opening up opportunities not only for Vietnamese but also foreign firms, an industry expert told a conference in HCM City earlier this week.

The State Bank of Viet Nam has shown its determination to stabilise the exchange rate, ensuring a maximum change of 1 per cent for the rest of the year.

A Vietnamese contemporary fine arts exhibition opened on September 9 in Washington D.C.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two days before the Mid-autumn Festival, which falls on today, September 12, thousands of people flocked to the Hanoi’s old quarter to buy toys and enjoy the festive atmosphere.

The 2005 Environment Protection Law and guiding documents have become inappropriate in current conditions and they overlap other laws, said a law expert at a conference held by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

VietNamNet Bridge – Walking on stilts, making traditional toys and mooncakes are among activities held by the Hanoi-based Museum of Ethnology at the Mid-autumn Festival 2011.

A total of 240 bodies of the victims in the ferry accident in Zanzibar, the semi- autonomous republic of Tanzania, have so far been retrieved, said local TV Monday morning.

Russia tours aimed at clients from corporations and public affair agencies have been in place for several years but it is only now that trips to cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg are attracting leisure travelers.