Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday gave a speech in the People's Balcony of Miraflores Palace in Caracas, after he returned from Cuba, where he got a surgery to remover a cancer tumor.

VietNamNet Bridge –Antiques from the pre-Sa Huynh culture have been unearthed at a mountainous site in the central province of Quang Ngai.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has set standards for the measurements and dimensions of classroom furniture in response to reports that ill-fitting equipment was causing students discomfort.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hosts HCM City topped the National ParaGames for people with disabilities, which concluded yesterday at the Tan Binh District's Culture and Sport Centre.

VietNamNet Bridge - The local foreign exchange market has begun to show positive results, following the State Bank of Viet Nam's circular which came into effect on July 1.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three students from the Hai Phong Maritime University and the Central College No. 2 are on a trans-Vietnam walk, which started from the northern coastal city of Hai Phong, to call for the people to protect the environment.

The 2nd Plenum of the Party Central Committee is meeting to discuss the overall working programme and regulations of the 11th Party Central Committee and its commissions, plus a revision of the 1992 constitution

VietNamNet Bridge –Hai Duong and Long An were both victorious at the National Student Football Tournament's Milo Cup held in My Tho City, in southern province of Tien Giang.

VietNamNet Bridge – State President Nguyen Minh Triet and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung have sent messages of greetings to US President Barrack Obama on the 235 th Independence Day of the US (July 4).

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 700,000 candidates nationwide yesterday, July 4, began the first day of the university entrance examinations throughout Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The landfills in Hanoi won’t be able to accept more garbage by 2012. With the low ratio of land per capita, Vietnam will have to consider burning waste instead of expanding dumping grounds.

Vietnam, Singapore promote economic connections; US, Vietnam make progress in APEC integration; Congratulations over Venezuelan Independence Day

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Institute for Food Hygiene and Safety Testing has found a commercial brand of drinking water named Wells contains small amounts of di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP).

VietNamNet Bridge – Macroeconomic instability, the electricity shortage and the lack of skilled workers have been cited to explain the sharp falls of the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam in recent months.

Vietnam-Cambodia trade rises sharply; Race to meet power demands; Car market has room to zoom ahead; Giant cabinet factory opens its doors; Japanese funds sought for support industries; Procedures trouble Korean firms

VietNamNet Bridge –  Free lodgings, parishes, temples or houses of good landlords are now full of students, who have to go to big cities to attend exams with borrowed money.

The approval rating for the cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has plunged 5 percentage points to a joint record low of 19 percent, a survey by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper showed Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Central Highlands Biology Institute in Da Lat city has announced to invent a technology that shortens the harvest time of Ngoc Linh ginseng from six years to only half of a month.

Fund management company Indochina Capital Corporation (Indochina Capital) announced yesterday that the Overseas Private Investment Corporation had approved US$50 million in financing for its Mekong Renewable Resources Fund.

A series of bomb and gunfire attacks on Monday killed at least 11 people and injured 35 others in northern and central Iraq, marking an escalation in violence in the country several months before the proposed departure of U.S. troops.