Vietnam ready to assist Japan’s reconstruction; 13th NA first session to focus on personnel; Vietnam-Italy relations keep growing

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's departure from power was only a matter of time and the international community must be prepared for the post-Gaddafi era.

VietNamNet Bridge – Officials from the Viet Nam Food Administration yesterday impounded a consignment of drink additive thought to be harmful to health.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than one million high school students will be sitting national high school graduation examinations today, June 2.

VietNamNet Bridge - The biennial Sea Festival will return to the seaside town of Nha Trang, starting on June 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – With information unsafe and the increasingly high number of computing attacks, Vietnam is in danger of becoming a big zombie computer nest in the world.

Maintaining peace and stability in the East Sea is necessary for the whole region and the benefit of coastal countries and related nations, stated a declaration issued at an international seminar on the East Sea

President Nguyen Minh Triet on seperate occasions yesterday received the newly accredited ambassadors from South Korea, Ha Chan Ho; the Republic of Moldova, Anatolie Urecheanu; and the Republic of Burundi, Gasunzu Pascal.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam launched an action month for children as a way to celebrate the International Children's Day yesterday, June 1, in northern Hung Yen Province.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ma Pi Leng mountain pass in Ha Giang province, is the mightiest of all mountain passes in Vietnam.

China will always try to bully the Philippines and other countries in the Southeast Asian region in a bid to control massive oil resources in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said.

In the next five years, Hanoi will bury electric wires and telecom cables on many streets, beautify the area around the Hoan Kiem Lake, repair flower gardens and install 120 public toilets at the cost of over VND2.5 trillion ($125 million).

Five people in the Netherlands have been sickened with an unusual strain of the E. coli bacteria, the institute for public health (RIVM) reported Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Famous movie director Bui Thac Chuyen and actress Hong Anh will be members of the judging panel of the second YxineFF online competition for short films, which will take place from September 2, to December 31.

There has been no sign of showing that the State Bank is considering loosening the monetary policies now, five months after applying the tightened monetary policies.  

Baby bottles containing the substance Bisphenol A (BPA) would have to be pulled from the shelves across the European Union (EU) starting from Wednesday, in a "milestone" move to better protect the health of EU citizens,

An Egyptian criminal court decided on Wednesday to start the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, on Aug. 3 on charges of intentionally killing peaceful protesters, state news agency MENA reported.

Australian children book illustrator Shaun Tan Tuesday received his Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the hands of Swedish Crown Princess Victoria in Stockholm Concert Hall.

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Three Japanese opposition parties, including the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), submitted to the lower house a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Naoto Kan Wednesday, in a bid to step up efforts to bring him down.