VietNamNet Bridge –HCM City could save as much as 30 per cent of the energy it spends on transportation if it develops an efficient public transport system, a conference on energy saving heard yesterday, July 20.

The State Capital Investment Corporation on July 18 reported it had sold interests it represented in 520 enterprises during the five years since its establishment for a total of VND2.77 trillion – twice the book value of the companies.

 VietNamNet Bridge –Mineral thieves are destroying the forest cover in mineral–rich Phia Oac-Phia Den in the northern mountain province of Cao Bang, says a probing report from Viet Nam News Agency.

Germany and France are "confident" to find common ground for the upcoming eurozone crisis summit, as the two countries' leaders are holding a last-minute meeting in Berlin and coordinating positions over the next Greek bailout package,

Investments in premium hotels during the last three years in Ho Chi Minh City have almost doubled, to meet an average growth rate of 15 percent each year in the number of tourists visiting Vietnam’s main commercial, economic and tourist hub.

U.S. President Barack Obama would accept a short-term deal to raise the country's borrowing limit with precondition of a bigger deal to reduce the soaring deficit, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Residents in Tan Phuoc District in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tien Giang have refused to farm in protest against the local authority's proposal to earmark land for golf course and industrial park development.

VietNamNet Bridge – Besides the Pulitzer and other awards over the years, Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, a Vietnamese American, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Journalist Association

VietNamNet Bridge – French ethnologist Georges Condominas, who spent his whole life researching the ethnic people of the Central Highlands, died on Sunday in Paris following a heart attack.

VietNamNet Bridge – Chinese businessmen seem to get involved more deeply into Vietnamese distribution chains, which allows them to more effectively compete with Vietnamese enterprises in collecting farm produce, experts have warned.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Ministry of Finance’s report which has been released recently shows that most of the securities companies incurred loss in the first six months of the year, which is not a surprise to any one at all.

 VietNamNet Bridge –Traces of prehistoric man have been found near Ba Be Lake, in the northern province of Bac Kan.

VietNamNet Bridge –Ireland's most successful boy band Westlife is set to perform for Vietnamese fans in the capital on October 1.

Youth start voluntary activities in Vientiane; Hanoi wants certain traffic cops to wear masks; 9 Ho Chi Minh City bankers indicted in loan scam

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of residents in northern Bac Giang Province's Duc Thang Commune have been forced to use contaminated water for their daily activities because of a leaking underground tank from a nearby enterprise.

VietNamNet Bridge - A capital shortage leaves Vietnamese businesses are at risk of lagging behind foreign rivals, who are strongly buying materials from local suppliers, say associations. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese football team is hopeful that it will do well at the Al Saad Stadium in Doha, Qatar, although they are acknowledged as the underdogs in this 2014 Brazil FIFA World Cup qualifying encounter.

Greece will account for every euro it receives in crisis aid from the European Union (EU), visiting Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Lambrinidis said Wednesday in Warsaw.

Vu Hoang My, the first runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2010 and the Vietnamese contestant at the Miss Universe 2011 pageant, shows her charming beauty besides pink lotus, which is considered Vietnam’s national flower.

VietNamNet Bridge –Authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai have set long-term targets for building a green sustainable economy, with strategies that protect and expand the forest cover.