VietNamNet Bridge – Party Politburo member Truong Tan Sang has called on enterprises from Japan's Kansai region to invest more in Viet Nam, especially in science and technology.

At least 18 people were killed and some 30 others injured in a suicide blast that hit a bakery Sunday night in Nowshera, a city some 50 kilometers east of Peshawar of northwest Pakistan, reported local Urdu TV channel Dunya.

Tens of thousands Greek protesters on Sunday took part in a second pan-European major day of protest against austerity as they staged a massive rally in front of the parliament building in Athens and joined a string of demonstrations in cities

A team of U.S. and Chinese researchers have discovered a chromosomal mutation responsible for a very rare condition in which people grow excess hair all over their bodies.

Indochina Airlines (VP), Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company and Trai Thien Air Cargo have just a month to satisfy the requirements set by the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) to maintain air transport trading licences.

VietNamNet Bridge - News carried on June 5 by several means of communications abroad on “demonstrations protesting China” in front of the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi and the Chinese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City was wrong.

VietNamNet Bridge - A recent survey conducted by Navigos Search showed that up to 54 per cent of respondent businesses had increased staff salaries by between 11 and 15 per cent in 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge - The domestic tourism sector this year would achieve its annual target of attracting 5.5 million foreign visitors, Viet Nam Society of Travel Agents chairman Vu The Binh said.

"X-Men: First Class," another superhero film which hit the screen this summer, opened to a 56 million dollar weekend atop the North America box office and helped usher in a sizzling summer for Hollywood.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local beer businesses have built more beer breweries and begun importing foreign beer brands to meet high consumption demand, industry experts say.

World No. 1 Rafael Nadal defeated the third seed Roger Federer in four sets to win the French Open title for the sixth time on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Shares rose in four out of five trading sessions on the HCM City Stock Exchange last week, with the VN-Index closing up on Friday by nearly 8 per cent over the previous week's close to 443.41 points.

VietNamNet Bridge – The space under bridges in HCM City have become mobile markets, the home to homeless people, warehouses, public toilets and even the sites where drug addicts shoot heroin.

The Israeli army on Sunday responded by heavy fire to unarmed pro-Palestinian protesters at the cease-fire line between Syria and Israel, killing 20 people and wounding 325 others, the state-run Syrian TV reported.

The population of finless porpoises, an endangered species of freshwater dolphin that lives in China's Yangtze River, may decrease by over 80 percent over the next 30 years,

Building up a retail network which can bring facilities to consumers and developing the retail companies powerful enough to lead the market, are the two issues being discussed thoroughly when compiling a strategy to develop retail trade services.

VN agro, fish exports exceed US$10 billion; Banks may miss restrictive credit targets; Retail sales see slower growth during Jan-May; Pinnacle to buy 26 pct stake in developer of Vietnam casinos; Automobile imports pick up    

Land prices on the outskirts of the capital city have dropped sharply and transactions have cooled down, a development that has worried investors but been welcomed by experts who consider it a good sign as land prices approach real market value.

Powerful blasts in an artillery arsenal in Russia's Volga region republic of Udmurtia have killed two and wounded at least 42 people, local authorities said on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge - An International Centre for Interdisciplinary Scientific Meetings will be under construction in the south-central coastal province of Binh Dinh by the end of 2011 and is scheduled for completion in 2013.