Riders at the ready for national cycling race; Bodybuilders pump it up at national club competition; Viet Nam to host 10 international contests

VietNamNet Bridge – More than a million high-school students are sitting the graduation exam that began yesterday, according to figures from the Ministry of Education and Training.

VietNamNet Bridge – Incurring big losses and restructuring the workforce are the things securities companies are doing at this moment. They have to wait on hold and struggle for the stock market recovery.

National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Kien said that the election dissemination of the 13th National Assembly and the People's Councils for the 2011-2016 term had contributed to the success of the nation's big event.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi's Police and transport department began to conduct inspections of boats and wharves yesterday, June 2, to deal with waterway traffic safety violations.

Flamboyant pop star Lady Gaga has sold more than one million copies of her new album to top the U.S. pop chart for the first time, according to sales data published on Tuesday by Billboard magazine.

VietNamNet Bridge - A workshop to introduce two handbooks namely, “Information on the Wind Energy Sector of Vietnam” and “Guidelines on Wind Power Planning in Vietnam” will be held  on June 3 in Hanoi.

State-owned groups, corporations and enterprises that are over 50 percent State-owned will have to sell foreign reserves (US dollar) to commercial banks from next month.

China's top player Li Na continued her history making journey at the French Open, beating Maria Sharapova of Russia 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday to roar into the women's singles final.

The "Inception" star Leonardo DiCaprio and the "Gossip Girl" beauty Blake Lively have been spotted wrapped around one another during a recent trip to Italy, according to media reports.

VietNamNet Bridge – Analysts believe that the Corporation for Financing and Promoting Technology, or FPT does not have many opportunities to penetrate the telecom market.

Microsoft on Wednesday gave a preview of its next-generation operating system code-named "Windows 8."

VietNamNet Bridge – The newly-issued Circular 20, which is thought to kill private car dealers and bring benefits to authorized automobile importers, turns out to be not welcomed by the authorized importers.

The death toll of the attack by militants on a police check post in upper Dir area of northwestern Pakistan rose to 27, local media reported Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Believing that the steel industry now can get benefits from the low electricity prices, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) is attempting to “create a fairness” by imposing tax.

Cities need to set up food safety committees; Bringing light to nearly 6,000 poor people; 5 arrested for setting up US$131,000 fake robbery; Air passenger charged for hiding 306 diamonds

VietNamNet Bridge - Shares of ceramic tile maker Vitaly are changing hands at around VND2,000 on the Hanoi Stock Exchange--the price of  a bunch of water spinach in a rural market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam should continue to invest in social assistance mechanisms to tackle poverty, especially among the ethnic poor, according a United Nations independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty.

VietNamNet Bridge - The exploration ship Binh Minh 2, whose cable was cut by a Chinese vessel last week, returned to Nha Trang Port yesterday after completing seismic surveys in Vietnam’s territorial waters.

“Vietnam has sufficient evidence to sue China at international jurisdiction agencies, against its flagrant infringement of Vietnam’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone,” said former chief of the Government’s Border Committee.