The Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM), the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the ASEAN+3 and an informal consultation among East Asian Summit (EAS) senior officials, wrapped up yesterday in Surabaya, Indonesia.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong has asked to receive continued support in HIV/AIDS prevention and control during meetings here with UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon and other international leaders.

Car crash injures 10 policemen; Crawling as punishment for game addiction; Sweets, soft drink contain plasticiser; Unknown beast attacks women at central forest

Vietnam, Thailand boost bilateral cooperation; Truong Sa stones reach northern locality; Germany aims to boost ties with Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – The South China Morning on June 10, reported that China has intimidated Idemitsu, BP and ExxonMobil if they don’t withdraw from oil and gas projects in Vietnam.

In the countries where the sugar industry develops well, byproducts can bring the values even higher than main products and help ease the sugar production costs. However, this does not happen in Vietnam.

200 athletes to contest second world vovinam championship; Underprivileged children to be given chance to play football; London Olympics gold medallists to be awarded record $7,300

The Vietnamese Government was willing to create favourable conditions for US businesses to invest and co-operate in projects throughout the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the visiting Governor of the US State of Maryland,

Businesses complain that they are seriously lacking laborers to keep normal production. However, they do not want to increase wages to retain workers, because they have to cut down expenses in the current difficult period.

VietNamNet Bridge – Binh Duong captain Lancelot Kubheka Philani Bhekizizwe believes that his team still has a chance in the title race.

VietNamNet Bridge – Health experts confirmed that the E.coli bacteria, which causes digestive bleeding and kidney failure, has not yet been detected in Viet Nam.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) on Thursday announced that its tablet computer, HP TouchPad, will go on sale in the United States on July 1.

VietNamNet Bridge – Every Sunday, the horse market opens in Bac Ha Town in the northern mountain province of Lao Cai. It has become a tourist attraction.

VietNamNet Bridge – As one of the oldest jobs that still exists in Vietnam, well diggers in Thanh That District, Hanoi, said that their job is “eating rice in the earth, working in the hades”.

Somalia's interior and security minister on Friday died after sustaining severe wounds in a suicide attack at his home in the capital Mogadishu, a government official said.

Hanoi invests more than VND6 trillion in five months; Dialogue with Korean businesses; EVN boosts hydroelectric power project in Cambodia; Dying oysters leads to $30 mln in losses; Too many banks in Vietnam, says Stanchart chief

Though asserting that it is very difficult to curb the trade deficit at 16 percent of the export turnover, Director of the Import-Export Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade still stressed that easing the trade deficit is a must.

The German authority said on Friday bean sprouts were probably the source of the E. coli outbreak, which has killed 30 people and infected about 3,000 around the world.

VietNamNet Bridge - The domestic retail price of petrol and oil would remain unchanged for the time being, despite the fact the global price fell last month, said Petrolimex deputy director Dam Thi Huyen.

On June 5, volunteers from TNT Vietnam participated in the “End Hunger: Walk the World” program as part of a global event to fight against child hunger and malnutrition.