Mobile network operators, mobile phone manufacturers and independent mobile phone programmers all have jumped into the mobile app market, which is believed to become very lucrative thanks to the sharp increases in the number of smart phones.

Dancers from many art schools and art troupes will gather up in HCM City to compete in the competition to seek new dancing talents from August 19 to 22.

VietNamNet Bridge – The destroying of watershed forests plus the uncontrollable waste water discharge, has made the clean water supply sources for millions of dwellers seriously polluted.

VietNamNet Bridge –The Viet Nam Designers House in HCM City will hold its biggest fashion show My Style tonight, Aug 19, to celebrate the first anniversary of the "fashion space for Vietnamese designers".

Vietnamese law bans the trade of internal organs. The need for internal organs, particularly kidneys, is huge--so many people cross the border to sell kidneys in China.

A lot of non-state grammar schools in HCM City have been operating at a moderate level or have stopped operation because they cannot enroll enough students.

Collecting debts has been highlighted as one of the most important tasks for banks for now. They have every reason to fear that many debts could be irrecoverable.

A total of 24 civilians were killed and 11 others injured in two powerful bomb blasts minutes apart on Thursday morning in Obe district in western Afghan province of Herat, Interior Ministry said.

The number of U.S. people initially applying for unemployment aid last week rose back after falling below 400,000 a week earlier, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday.

The US’s recent moves – sending its super-aircraft carriers to the East Sea, joining military exercises with the Philippines – and the presence of Chinese largest patrol ship in the East Sea show the escalation in military activities in this region.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved Zelboraf (vemurafenib) to treat patients with late-stage (metastatic) or unresectable melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer.

Tokyo stocks declined sharply Thursday, with the key Nikkei stock index slumping 1.25 percent to a 5-month closing low on mounting concerns about a global economic downturn and compounded by a persistently strong yen

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VietNamNet Bridge – While the two-year-old project to bury some of Ha Noi's mess of overhead wires underground has already benefited a few residents, the failure to tidy up the chaos throughout the rest of the city has not gone unnoticed.

Microsoft's cloud-based software Microsoft Office 365 on Wednesday experienced its first major outage since its introduction in late June.

Latest research shows that the Moon could be younger than previous estimates. The findings were published online Wednesday in the Nature journal.

VietNamNet newspaper, the Vietnam Writers’ Association and the Vietnam Musicians’ Association on August 16, jointly launched a song and poetry competition entitled “This is Vietnam’s sea”.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport is trying to speed up delayed traffic projects of all types, including Da Nang International Airport.

The products used in the education sector have been cited as the ones which see the highest price increases, by 24.14 percent. It is now the time for parents to move heaven and earth to arrange money for their children’s new academic year.

Leo Messi was again the hero for FC Barcelona as he scored two goals to take his side to a 3-2 win over Real Madrid in the return leg of the Spanish Supercup.