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Solar system edge filled with sea of magnetic bubbles: JPL

The edge of our solar system may not be smooth, but filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles approximately 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) wide, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Thursday.

Hackers attack 1,500 Vietnamese websites

VietNamNet Bridge – IT forums on the Internet estimate that more than 1,500 Vietnamese websites have been hacked in the last few days.

Donors say Vietnam economy still unstable

Vietnam has made some progress in stabilizing its economy but has more difficulties to overcome, donors said at the mid-year Donor’s Consultative Group Meeting held in Ha Tinh yesterday.

Tourism companies head north

Some travel companies in HCM City have opened branches in Hanoi for a few years. Yet the investment wave to develop the market in Hanoi and the North has just risen strongly in recent years. Nonetheless, it is not easy to exploit this market.

E.coli found in EU avocados: Thai FDA

Avocados imported from the European Union have been found to be contaminated with E.coli but it is not known yet if it is the same deadly strain that has claimed 27 lives in Europe, Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

East Sea: Fear doesn’t drive back danger

VietNamNet Bridge – There are circumstances that quietness doesn’t help us to avoid danger, but enhances the danger because the quietness misleads others as feebleness

Vietnam attends 8th ASEAN security conference

Deputy Defense Minister Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh joined senior defense officials from 22 other ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) member countries at the eighth ARF Security Policy Conference in Indonesia Thursday.

Motorists object to vehicle fee proposal

VietNamNet Bridge - Motorists have objected a plan by the Vietnam Association of Financial Investors (VAFI) to impose an ownership fee on car and motorbike owners.

Vietnam expects to have 500 hi-tech firms by 2020

VietNamNet Bridge - Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has endorsed a plan to develop the hi-tech sector, with the country visioning to have up to 500 enterprises producing hi-tech products within the next ten years from the current 100 firms.

Discovering a kingdom of birds

After an hour by boat from Nha Trang city, the Noi and Ngoai islands, home to thousands of salanganes, appear on the horizon.

U.S. economy to avert double dip, but recovery to remain slow

While a worrisome U.S. jobless report and other data have in recent days stirred fears of a double-dip recession, a number of economists said such a scenario is unlikely, rather, the economy will continue to recover,

Vietnam’s vessel Viking 2 ‘harassed’ many times

Norwegian-flagged Viking 2, a 3D seismic conducting vessel, which had its exploration cables damaged by a Chinese ship in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone on Thursday, kept a detailed journal of the events that unfolded.

Death toll from E. coli rises to 30

A 57-year-old man died of E. coli infection in Germany's Frankfurt Thursday, pushing the death toll from the bacteria to 30. The man had traveled with his wife to the city of Hamburg, an epicenter of the outbreak, Frankfurt authority said.

HCM City facing landslide and fresh water shortage

VietNamNet Bridge – The latest reports show that the underground water level in HCM City has fallen to – (minus) 46 meters, while the water reserves in the city have also been decreasing rapidly.

MOF plans to amend tax laws to fight against price transfer

VietNamNet Bridge – Besides a series of newly issued documents on defining the values of goods, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) says it is considering amending the law on tax management in an effort to combat with the behaviors of “price transfer”.

Measures proposed to ensure Vietnamese fishermen's safety

VietNamNet Bridge – A proposal has been submitted to the Government to establish control forces to protect fisheries in Viet Nam's territorial waters, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has announced.

Shortage of summer clubs leaves parents high and dry

VietNamNet Bridge – Lack of summer clubs for children has forced Hanoian parents to queue up for long hours to register their children for summer courses at centres.

Curricula at the heart of $3.3 bil education proposal

VietNamNet Bridge – A new school curriculum is being planned in an effort to comprehensively revamp the education system, the Ministry of Education and Training said.

Hue hosts photo exhibition

VietNamNet Bridge – The Faces of Asian Ethnic Groups is the theme of a photo exhibition of a French photographer, which has opened in Hue.

Billion-dollar projects become scarcer

Billion-dollar FDI projects become quite scarce in the first five months of this year, while a number of mammoth ones licensed earlier have been revoked because of financial incapacity on the part of the investors.