To prepare for the two games against Macau at the first qualifier round of the World Cup 2014, coach Mai Duc Chung has called up 23 players, including star striker Le Cong Vinh.

VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Cabinet to pursue priorities in curbing inflation and stabilising the macro-economy.

The lack of specific products for different specific clients and the lack of long term market development plans are the biggest weak points of Vietnamese software companies.

"Power countries always have their weak points. If we are firm, they will retreat...," said Major-general Le Van Cuong, former chief of the Ministry of Public Security’s Strategy Institute; in an interview with VietNamNet

VietNamNet Bridge – Life skill training centers have been mushrooming in big cities - Hanoi and HCM City – to meet the increasingly high demand. However, where to go to practice life skills is really a headache for parents.

VN production capacity well above average; Preferential customs procedures on trial; Ministry targets economic corridor; Inflation lifts agricultural export value; Rush to produce energy-saving bulbs  

The difficulties in accessing capital has caused thousands of construction projects to become stagnant. As a result, construction materials remain unsalable; project developers incur losses, while workers become jobless.

Dance with Pietragalla: “On the tips of toes”; Poetry Bordello at Le Cooperative; Summer 2011 Gala Concert; Concert W.A. Mozart, Tango and Latin dances; Fundraiser Food and Wine Dinner    

Twelve year old girl wins top prize in environment painting contest; Vietnam civilization depicted in book; A peek into Indochina ethnic societies; Vietnamese culture in Belgian eyes; A peek into Indochina ethnic societies      

Anticipating the increasing demand in the time to come, when the aviation market recovers from the crisis, airlines have rushed to open new air routes and offer sales promotion campaigns.

Vietnam has demanded that the Chinese side immediately cease actions that violated its sovereignty and hindered Vietnamese fishing boats and fishermen operating in the waters of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has decided to keep four cabinet members who submitted their letters of resignation earlier this week saying that they would vote against Kan in a no-confidence vote at parliament,

VietNamNet Bridge – Four economic areas will enjoy preferential interest rates when taking out official development assistance loans granted by foreign countries, according to the Government.

VietNamNet Bridge - A production line at Ba Huan, a private entities nominally have the right to do business in several fields; but in fact, their room for development has been restricted.

A possible second E. coli infection patient has been hospitalized in Szczecin, northwestern Poland, Health Minister Ewa Kopacz said Thursday.

Toyota New Zealand is recalling at least 132 first generation Prius hybrid cars due to a steering fault, local media reported Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of farmers living in the buffer zone of U Minh Forest in southern Kien Giang Province are in debt as rice cannot grow well in the high-alum soil there.

Thirty-six same-sex couples tied the knot Thursday at a high-profile public ceremony in Chicago's Millennium Park, a day after the newly-signed Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act that allows such marriages became effective.

Argentine football player Lionel Messi almost became victim of an attack on Thursday when leaving a bar in Rosario, 300 kilometers away from Buenos Aires, where a young man tried to punch him on the face.

Around 40,000 people in Vietnam die because of smoking annually, equivalent to the death cases caused by HIV/AIDS until March 2008. The figure will increase to 70,000 people a year by 2030.