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.

The sharp input cost increases have dealt a blow on enterprises, forcing many of them to scale down the production scale. As businesses have been pushed against the wall, they have to diversify business to seek the opportunity to survive.

The edge of our solar system may not be smooth, but filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles approximately 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) wide, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – IT forums on the Internet estimate that more than 1,500 Vietnamese websites have been hacked in the last few days.

Vietnam has made some progress in stabilizing its economy but has more difficulties to overcome, donors said at the mid-year Donor’s Consultative Group Meeting held in Ha Tinh yesterday.

Some travel companies in HCM City have opened branches in Hanoi for a few years. Yet the investment wave to develop the market in Hanoi and the North has just risen strongly in recent years. Nonetheless, it is not easy to exploit this market.

Avocados imported from the European Union have been found to be contaminated with E.coli but it is not known yet if it is the same deadly strain that has claimed 27 lives in Europe, Food and Drug Administration said Friday.