After work, Huyen and Hanh, employees of a Japanese real estate firm in Hanoi, ride to Ba Trieu Street for their pole dancing class. After changing into gym wear, the two start to warm up around a pole to rap music.

The Vietnam Oil and Gas Association (VOGA) has strongly opposed the acts of the Chinese marine surveillance vessels, which recently cut the survey cables of a Vietnamese ship operating on the continental shelf of Vietnam.

“Vietnam needs to re-think its information strategy and modernize it in order to get Vietnam’s views before international opinion,” said Professor Carl Thayer in an interview on VietNamNet’s Tuan Viet Nam (Vietnam Week).

Just within several days of early June, technology and security forums have reckoned hundreds of “.vn” websites which have been hacked, including the websites of government agencies and ministries.

VietNamNet Bridge – Scientists have warned that the water of the Red River may be red no more, since the river is gradually losing silt which has been, for many centuries, irrigating the rice fields in the north of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam CFO Summit 2011 has been much expected by the business community because it will discuss the most important matter now for businesses – how to optimize the capital structure.

VietNamNet Bridge – A mummy of over 100 years old is now preserved and displayed at the HCM City-based Vietnam History Museum.

VietNamNet Bridge – High school students do not have any days to relax after they finished the final exams, because they have to gear up to prepare for the university entrance exams to be held in early July.

VietNamNet Bridge – Developing websites and selling goods under the e-commerce mode prove to be a lucrative business. The internet has helped many people become billionaires.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution to underline the importance of including UN peacekeeping missions into HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment strategies.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta is implementing measures to deal with the coming rainy season to protect lives and property of local residents.

U.S and German leaders on Tuesday threatened additional sanctions against Iran in case of its continued failure to meet its international obligations.

Just as I arrived at the boat terminal at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the north-central province of Quang Binh, I heard a familiar boat engine sound in the distance and in no time recalled a worthwhile trip to Ba Be National Park

VietNamNet Bridge - The Government’s recent measures to combat inflation have focused on tightening monetary and fiscal policies.

VietNamNet talked with Nguyen Minh Hong, Director of the Center for Research and Application of Medical Breakthroughs. Hong was an independent candidate at three National Assembly elections and he only failed in the first election.

Libya state TV aired an audio message Tuesday from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, barely after an hour of a huge fire that erupted in Gaddafi's vast Bab al- Aziziya residential compound in the capital Tripoli.

Dishes that helped imprisoned revolutionaries and liberation soldiers survive to fight during the country's resistance war were introduced to tourists, students and soldiers at the War Remnants Museum in HCM City yesterday

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has been advised to focus on developing supporting industries in order to curb the trade gap.

VN ups forex reserve ratio, forces forex sales; UK-owned consulting firm honored; Electricity prices will not rise in June; VietinBank to sell 15 pct to Canadian bank; Singapore’s CapitaLand buys into Vietnam firm

Taxi wheels break off when running; Vietnamese man killed in dogfight in Taiwan; First Vietnamese American Ophthalmology Symposium held; Vietnamese urged to buy local goods