Cuban state TV on Tuesday night showed pictures of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro chatting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was recovering from a surgery in Havana.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam coach Falko Goetz debuted his first competitive match with a comfortable 6-0 win over Macau in the first round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, Asian Zone qualifiers.

VietNamNet Bridge – The highly toxic weedkiller paraquat, banned in most countries because it is lethal to humans, is readily available in Viet Nam, to the dismay of health officials.

National Para Games attract 700 disabled to HCM City; Twenty six from VN to compete for Takraw cup; Viet Nam wins four Korean martial arts gold medals

VietNamNet Bridge - Agencies, associations, social organisations, businesses and consumers must become aware of the new Vietnamese law on consumer rights' protection that will become effective on July 1, a ministry official has said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The State in 2009 overspent by around VND114 trillion (US$5.5 billion), equivalent to 6.9 per cent of the country's GDP and within acceptable levels as set by the National Assembly.

VietNamNet Bridge - Greater investment incentives are needed to get more industrial zone workers into personal residences.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung called on relevant offices to speed up legal procedures in handling unsettled corruption cases during the remaining months of this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Television Film Studio has acquired the legal rights to the book Duong Van Minh: The Last President of the Sai Gon Regime by author Nguyen Tran Thiet.

VietNamNet Bridge – The pilot project on carrying out bids via Internet has been successfully implemented. However, the Ministry of Planning and Investment admitted that it is very difficult to organize e-bidding on a large scale.

 VietNamNet Bridge –Viet Nam dropped six places in the International Football Federation's (FIFA) June rankings and now languish in 140th place.

VietNamNet Bridge –The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) would use the latest technology – cloud computing – to integrate all data relating to Viet Nam's natural resources and environment,

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Food Administration (VFA) director Nguyen Cong Khan spoke to the newspaper Nong thon Ngay nay (Countryside Today) about public concern over food safety.

VietNamNet Bridge –A national programme to contain the spread of rabies for the next four years has been put before the Prime Minister, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VietNamNet Bridge – Companies and enterprises in HCM City need to hire 135,000 employees for the remaining six months of this year, according to the City's Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information.

Vietnamese processors have been warned that Chinese businessmen would continue flowing to Vietnam to scramble for farm produce, advising domestic enterprises to apply necessary measures to effectively compete with them.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's marine environment is facing increased pollution from human activities while the country is still lacking an effective pollution control mechanism,

Google on Tuesday rolled out a new social networking service named "Google+", a long awaited move of the Internet search giant to crack the industry's social trend dominated by Facebook.

Google Android chief Andy Rubin said on Tuesday that the activations of Android-powered devices are growing at a rate of 4.4 percent on a weekly basis, with over 500,000 devices activated each day worldwide.

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