Toyota Classics returns to HCMC; Xoan singing introduced to diplomats; Local youth hold Silent Party for the deaf; Galaxy Y contest for wannabe dancers; Portraits of women in war and peace time; HCM City songwriter takes the prize  

VietNamNet Bridge – Hand-foot-mouth disease has claimed the lives of 130 people so far this year after spreading to 63 cities and provinces across the country.

The number of skyscraper projects in downtown HCMC is on the uptrend and the public is afraid the overwhelming presence of these structures will badly effect the city’s environment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam beat Singapore 9-1 in their first Group A match of the Southeast Asian Women's Football Championship in Laos on Sunday.

A tour to Quy Nhon is not complete without a visit to a national relic – the grave of poet Han Mac Tu in Ghenh Rang Hill.

Kenmark’s representative has affirmed that Kenmark does not run away and that there is still solution to the problem.

Local mobile handsets are losing ground to foreign players.

Vietnam will host the 7 th Ministerial Meeting on Youth of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AMMY VII), the Vietnam National Committee on Youth (VNCY) announced on Oct. 17.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam took the lead at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Vovinam Championships in Cambodia over the weekend, with nine gold and 10 silver medals.

Celebratory gunshots by fighters of Libya's new ruling authorities are echoing in the sky on Monday over Bani Walid, as solid advances have been made in the oasis town, one of a couple of last strongholds of forces loyal

VietNamNet Bridge – A Ha Noi-based men's basketball team has been invited to compete in the third China-ASEAN Men's Basketball Invitational Tournament in China on October 25-31.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday once again urged lawmakers to pass the jobs bill he proposed more than a month ago, proposing to break the bill into pieces.

The Ha Noi-based Centre for Research on Development Communication issued a report yesterday saying that more than 80 percent of domestic journalists and reporters had reported being blocked from gathering information.

VietNamNet Bridge – A crocodile was recently caught by a passer-by after fleeing from a crocodile farm in Hoang Mai District, raising concern about the management of wild animals in the city.

VietNamNet Bridge – People of Phu Hoa Town in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum are eager for a solution to the air and water pollution caused by a local rubber processing factory.

U.S. stocks tumbled on Monday, with major indexes suffering biggest losses in two weeks, as worries on European debt problems once again weighed on the market.

VietNamNet would like to introduce the talks of Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh at the Council for Foreign Relations (CFR), a leading think tank and publisher in the US.

The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has proposed the Ministry of Industry and Trade to stop licensing more rice exporters. However, experts believe that it will be unfair if the enterprises which can meet the requirements cannot join the market.

Francois Hollande, former First Secretary of the French left Socialist Party (SP), won the run-off primary election on Sunday to represent the biggest opposition for the French presidential race next year.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Social Insurance Agency will pay VND460 billion (US$21.9 million) in unemployment benefits to more than 100,000 laid-off workers this year, its deputy director has said.