VietNamNet Bridge – The World Wild Fund will give 8.2 million euros (US$11.89 million) in funds to develop a carbon reserve area and forest biology preservation area in the central provinces of Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has posted a slower growth rate of foreign visitor arrivals in the country in the first half of the year than in the same period last year.

As the two major rivers in Vietnam’s biggest city – Saigon and Dong Nai – are seriously polluted, HCM City authorities have considered the use of water from two lakes.

A luxury hotel, the Intercontinental Hotel, in the downtown of Afghan capital city Kabul was attacked from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, leaving at least six attackers killed and possibly over a dozen others dead or injured.

Experts say festivals just try to attract more travelers while local authorities have not paid attention to developing tourism in a sustainable way.  

Many state-owned giant corporations still carried out their initial public offering (IPO) as scheduled this year despite the plunging stock market. However, most of them went public quietly, without making promotion packages for the sales.

Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc believes that the personnel changes in the government’s apparatus will not greatly affect the macroeconomic management.

Violent clashes between youths and riot police in central Athens on Tuesday injured at least eight people as a nationwide strike against new austerity measures shut down the country.

Navies from the United States and the Philippines kicked off an 11-day joint exercise Tuesday afternoon in waters off the southwestern Philippine island province of Palawan, showcasing the ties and interoperability between the two allies.

Six powerful explosions struck the eastern suburb of Tajuraa in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, a Xinhua correspondent said.

Beeline has set up the ambition to become Number One among small mobile networks. S-Fone thinks of technology transfer in order to dominate the market, while Vietnamobile has launched super-cheap fee packages.

Iran announced on Tuesday that it " successfully" testfired 14 short-range, medium-range and long- range missiles on the second day of the missile drills.

The arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi issued Monday by the International Criminal Court (ICC) aroused both opposition and support around the world.

Banks target higher second-half earnings; Dollar exchange to hold steady till year-end: ANZ; HN taxation bureau collects $11.3 million from tax evaders; Seafood sector sees strong growth; Rice deal inked with Sierra Leone

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam, especially the interesting life in Hanoi, is vividly featured in the first edition of ASIES, a new French magazine spotlighting Asia, which hit newspaper shelves in France early June, this year.

VietNamNet Bridge would like to introduce our readers to “special” fruits and vegetables harvested by Vietnamese farmers.

Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario was in Washington last week for a rather specific purpose: to seek U.S. support in his country’s growing territorial dispute with China in the East Sea.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on June 27, recognized the Citadel of Ho Dynasty in Thanh Hoa province in central Vietnam as a World Cultural Heritage Site.

The United States called for China to lower tensions in the East Sea through dialogue as the Pacific powers held first-of-a-kind talks on friction in Southeast Asia on June 26.

VietNamNet Bridge - Julien ‘Seth’ Malland’s portrait of a Saigon girl was the highlight of ‘Esperantopolis, cultural venue of francophonie community’ which took place in the city over the weekend.