Hanoi hosts int’l conference on drug and HIV/AIDS; Accidents kill 2, injure 9 in central provinces; Reporters on duty assaulted; Reporters on duty assaulted

VietNamNet Bridge –Viet Nam and Japan finalised an official direct assistance (ODA) loan worth nearly JPY41 billion (approximately US$508 million) at a ceremony yesterday, June 14, in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – A herd of five elephants trampled crops over the past three days as they searched for food near the centre of Ma Da Commune in the southern province of Dong Nai.

VietNamNet Bridge – FIFA had approved the fourth phase of a project to nurture football in Viet Nam, a source from the Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The emergence of more women in the corporate world has caused some controversy and public concern.

Newly-elected National Assembly Deputy, Phan Van Quy said he highly appreciated deputies who speak frankly, but to solve a matter; with many ways of approach.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi Metropole chef Do Chi Cong won first prize at the first Bocuse d'Or food contest held in Nha Trang city on Monday.

Experts from Wildlife At Risk (WAR) have discovered Taylor’s bug-eyed frogs (Theloderma Stellatum), which is in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in the forest of Quang Ngai province in central Vietnam.  

Many Vietnamese Internet users have used pictures of naval soldiers as their avatars on Yahoo Messenger and Facebook, accompanied with the text “Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) belong to Vietnam”.

Eight people were killed and six other injured after a truck exploded at a gas station Tuesday afternoon in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Unable to “sustain life”, a lot of companies which make opensource software had to shut down their business, while many opensource software products have disappeared from the market.

Interest rates top concerns among industry; Seafood exports expected to hit US$8 bil by 2020; Highway project opened to investors; Vietnam’s biggest oil platform installed

Hundreds of youngsters called the names of singers of Korean JYJ band, Korean actress Han Hye Jin and Korean football star Park Ji Sung when Korean celebrities appeared at a sports center in HCM City, to meet with Vietnamese children on June 14.

Numerous ships and few goods have forced domestic fleets to “eat the bread of idleness”. The appearance of foreign “big guys” on domestic transportation routes has pushed many Vietnamese ship owners to the verge of bankruptcy.

Indian headline inflation rebounded to 9.06 percent in May from 8.66 percent in the previous month due to pricier fuel prices, according to a press statement by India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge - The implementation of a series of projects in telecommunications production in the first months of 2011 showed that Vietnam’s high-tech sector continued to draw foreign investors.

VietNamNet Bridge – Around 400 people flocked to the Bong Mieu gold mine in the central province of Quang Nam during the night of June 13, and early morning of June 14, to rob 15 tons of gold ore.

The authorities of the southern province of An Giang have detected over 96 officials in An Phu and Thoai Son districts as using fake high-school diplomas.  

For the last two years, a quiet showdown has played out over the East Sea. This little-known body of water is of vast strategic importance.

An U.S. company named "iCloud communication" sued Apple over copying its trademark, according to media reports Monday.