Six Italian peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were wounded Friday when a bomb targeting their vehicle exploded on the highway leading to the south Lebanon coastal city of Sidon,

VietNamNet Bridge - SHB Da Nang will have the chance to close the gap with leaders Song Lam Nghe An as they are playing at home and away, respectively, in the V-League's round 16 this weekend.

The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry has staunchly opposed the recent action of Chinese marine surveillance vessels in cutting the exploration cables of a PetroVietnam ship that was conducting seismic surveys within Vietnam's continental shelf.

Commercial banks have been told to reduce the outstanding loans to non-production sectors to 22 percent prior to June 30, and to 16 percent by the end of the year.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) said it will attend seven international tourism fairs in 2011, instead of 10 in 2010.

Transport ministry requests funds for projects; Local businesses fazed by high lending interest rates; Foreign banks loan $457 mln to Vietnam Airlines; More Asian sweets come to Vietnam; Country has 39 golf courses too many: ministry      

VietNamNet Bridge – State agencies now have the high demand for digitizing their “data warehouses” to help them escape from piles of papers. However, the data digitization services remain slack.

Hospital pharmacies to sell lower than market rate; Asia media summit closes; Helmets, lifejackets mandatory for students; African Day celebrated in Vietnam; Special visits for needy children         

VietNamNet Bridge - Appointed Ambassador of Vietnam to the US Nguyen Quoc Cuong expressed his strong belief in the bright future of the friendship and partnership between the US and Vietnam, committing his whole tenure to that future.

To date, two years after the day when 3G technology was officially developed in Vietnam, none of the five mobile network service providers who are providing 3G services, has released the information about the existing numbers of 3G subscribers.

After one month, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Vietnam Youth Union Central Committee have received 145 applications for the project to recruit 600 young vice chairs for 62 poor districts in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Cobras in four bags were found on a Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi train on May 26.

Japanese automaker Honda on Thursday announced plans for the accelerated recovery of its auto production in North America, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan seriously disrupted auto parts supply.

Eating kiwifruit might be a much better way of getting vitamin C into your system than taking purified vitamin supplements, according to research from New Zealand.

Italian artists to perform Tosca in Hanoi; Vietnam, Mongolia cooperate in writing; Seminar on Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia fine arts; Korean artworks on show in Hanoi; Acrobats, puppets to perform Gulliver’s Travels    

VietNamNet Bridge - Host Song Lam Nghe An were knocked out with a 3-1 loss to Persipura from Indonesia at the second-round qualifiers of the Asian Football Cup (AFC) on May 25.

While securities investors feel depressed about the continued fall of the VN Index, the State Securities Commission (SSC) does not think that it is necessary to intervene in the market at this moment.

HCM City on May 26, made public the list of 95 winners of the People’s Council election (2011-2016 tenure), which took place on May 22. Three of them are female artists.

NASA's space telescope Spitzer have observed olivine falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, it was announced on Thursday.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday dismissed comment on the qualification of incumbent Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF),