VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Pham Van Dong’s Diplomatic Note 1958 did not state to give up Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands.

Worries over tension in the East Sea and national sovereignty and the hope that the National Assembly (NA) will be lucid in selecting state and government leaders are among the expectations of constituents sent to the 13th NA.

The number of pupils per class is prescribed clearly in the regulations for pre-schools and primary schools. However, it seems to be quite difficult for schools to obey those regulations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-one buses running on compressed natural gas will ply the first green bus route in HCM City from August 15.

VietNamNet Bridge – The newly-elected National Assembly (NA) opened the first sitting in Hanoi on July 21, set to vote for new NA Chairman, Vice Chairman, the country’s President, Vice President and Prime Minister during the session.

VietNamNet Bridge - Two senior US senators have warned China that recent naval clashes with its neighbours in the East Sea could jeopardise US “national interests” in the region, in comments likely to rankle Beijing.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem made important contributions to the success of the 44 th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM-44) held in Bali, Indonesia on July 19.

VietNamNet Bridge – Most companies and agencies operating in specific fields such as finance and banking, taxation, oil and gas and telecommunication are using foreign software products.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday warned that a failed crisis euro summit on Thursday could damage the European economy as a whole and send shockwave beyond to the global level.

VietNamNet Bridge –HCM City could save as much as 30 per cent of the energy it spends on transportation if it develops an efficient public transport system, a conference on energy saving heard yesterday, July 20.

The State Capital Investment Corporation on July 18 reported it had sold interests it represented in 520 enterprises during the five years since its establishment for a total of VND2.77 trillion – twice the book value of the companies.

 VietNamNet Bridge –Mineral thieves are destroying the forest cover in mineral–rich Phia Oac-Phia Den in the northern mountain province of Cao Bang, says a probing report from Viet Nam News Agency.

Germany and France are "confident" to find common ground for the upcoming eurozone crisis summit, as the two countries' leaders are holding a last-minute meeting in Berlin and coordinating positions over the next Greek bailout package,

Investments in premium hotels during the last three years in Ho Chi Minh City have almost doubled, to meet an average growth rate of 15 percent each year in the number of tourists visiting Vietnam’s main commercial, economic and tourist hub.

U.S. President Barack Obama would accept a short-term deal to raise the country's borrowing limit with precondition of a bigger deal to reduce the soaring deficit, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Residents in Tan Phuoc District in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tien Giang have refused to farm in protest against the local authority's proposal to earmark land for golf course and industrial park development.

VietNamNet Bridge – Besides the Pulitzer and other awards over the years, Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, a Vietnamese American, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Journalist Association

VietNamNet Bridge – French ethnologist Georges Condominas, who spent his whole life researching the ethnic people of the Central Highlands, died on Sunday in Paris following a heart attack.

VietNamNet Bridge – Chinese businessmen seem to get involved more deeply into Vietnamese distribution chains, which allows them to more effectively compete with Vietnamese enterprises in collecting farm produce, experts have warned.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Ministry of Finance’s report which has been released recently shows that most of the securities companies incurred loss in the first six months of the year, which is not a surprise to any one at all.