The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Oscar statuettes to Oprah Winfrey, actor James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith in November.

Muong Chieng, a remote village in the northern province of Hoa Binh, is suddenly known because of a strange disease, which cannot cured by both western and oriental medicines.

VietNamNet Bridge – Scientists have given warnings about the serious land pollution levels in some areas of the country, which has threatened agricultural production, affected the quality of farm produce, and people’s health.

VietNamNet Bridge – All tour boats parked in unregulated places on Ha Long Bay must be removed before August 15, according to the city People's Committee.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 13th National Assembly's opening session continued yesterday, discussing possible reforms to the 1992 Constitution and the socio-economic state of the nation.

 Sweden decides to keep HN embassy; US confirms new ambassador; Greater Mekong ministers meet; Finland pledges aid for climate change

Experts have said they anticipate the wave of foreign investment funds withdrawing from Vietnam by 2012-2013, when a series of funds fall due and the stock market still cannot warm up.

There is a special market that opens once a week, on Saturday in Hanoi’s center. The market opens at 9.30am and closes at 12.30pm in Tay Ho district, attracting foreigners in Hanoi.

Phuong Quoc Tri, one of the most famous young artists in Vietnam, last week opened the Cactus Contemporary Art Gallery in HCM City’s District 2

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam finished in the top spot at the HCM City Open International Track and Field Tournament with eight gold medals.

VietNamNet Bridge – Renowned Thai and Vietnamese saxophonists will perform tonight, Aug 5, at the HCM City Opera House to celebrate the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries (August 6, 1976-2011).

Ministry proposes coffee board; Deputy PM orders speeding up on competitive power market project; US company to design 79-storey tower in Hanoi; Goods, services sales value up 5% this year; Vietnam 2011 bad debt could rise to 5 pct of loans   

In order to compete with iPads, desktops and laptops have been upgraded to turn into the effective office and entertainment tools.

Vietnam’s tourism should be introduced to the world as an open, self-confident tourism which bears distinct, endless and dynamic beauty.

Analysts have pointed out that even if the interest rate goes down to zero percent, the developers would still “die” because of the rapidly increasing input costs and the big volume of unsalable products.

Renovating syllabus, changing the teaching and learning methods are the things that historians believe need to be done immediately in order to “rescue a new Vietnamese generation bad at history”

There are babies who are abandoned when they are not taken shape yet. Some are outcast immediately after birth. More and more babies are desolated like that by mothers who are workers at southern industrial zones.

Russia hopes to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the end of 2011, but would not yield to Georgia's political demands as a price, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.

“Some said that the plan to build the West Lake – Ba Vi road benefits estate projects, but I know no project along this road has operated,” said Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Dinh Toan.

Google's top legal officer on Wednesday posted a scathing blog post, accusing Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and other companies of waging "bogus" patent wars over smartphone technologies.