VietNamNet Bridge – About 1.5 million students will sit for the national high school graduation examinations from June 2-4 this year, the same number as last year, says the Ministry of Education and Training.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two-time V-League champions Dong Tam Long An (DTLA) face the risk of relegation to the First Division after nine years in the top-flight.

Actress Lindsay Lohan began her 35 days of house arrest after turning herself in at a Lynwood detention center early Thursday morning, authorities said.

African swine fever, a viral disease deadly to pigs but harmless to human beings, is spreading beyond Russia and the Caucasus region into Europe, the United Nations' food agency said Thursday.

German health officials said Thursday that cucumbers imported from Spain was one source of a recent deadly E. coli outbreak in northern states that killed three people and made hundreds sick.

VietNamNet Bridge – Supermarkets are always full of customers on all the days of the weeks, while markets are poorly patronized. Housewives tend to turn their back to traditional markets with old sales methods.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese under-19 team has drawn an easy group at the Asian football tournament but the under-16 team faces big challenges.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 100 boat owners joined a training course on Wednesday to learn skills to cope with storms in southern Ca Mau Province's Tran Van Thoi District.

VietNamNet Bridge – UNESCO has recognised 82 stele commemorating the graduation of royal mandarins from the 15th to 18th centuries at Ha Noi's Temple of Literature as a Memory of the World.

World record-holder Usain Bolt won his first race after a nine-month break on Thursday when he needed a late kick to win the 100 meters in 9.91 seconds at the Golden Gala.

VietNamNet Bridge - Coffee supplies from Vietnam, the largest robusta grower, may tighten before the next harvest starts in October after surging prices spurred farmers to sell 90 percent of the current crop.

National beach football tourney to kick off; SLNA lose to Persipura in AFC Cup quarter-finals; Judokas Ngoc Tu to compete at Grand Slam

VietNamNet Bridge - A vast area of Ngoc Linh ginseng (Panax vietnamesis) has been successfully developed after cultivation began 13 years ago in Kon Tum Province.

Viet Nam has developed a general plan to minimise and cope with the impacts of climate change with the assistance of development partners, said Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai yesterday, May 26, in Tokyo.

Vietnam attends 16th NAM Ministerial Meeting; African Day celebrated in Vietnam; US receives Vietnamese ambassador; Vietnam, Laos strengthen procuracy cooperation

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese International Super-grandmaster Le Quang Liem will show off his strategic skills at the French Chess League competition, which began yesterday, May 26.

Documentary Film Festival; Cabaret Night in June; Live Music Show with Ho Quynh Huong; Launching of the Official 48HFP Website; Theater Workshop “Hanoi Goes Absurd”

At least 25 people including an unknown number of policemen were killed and over 50 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack that took place Thursday evening in Pakistan's northwest city of Hangu, some 70 kilometers southwest of Peshawar,

VietNamNet Bridge – Music, dances and attires specific to 12 Mekong Delta provinces that attest to the region's ethnic and cultural diversity will be presented at a three-day festival in Hau Giang Province this weekend.

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of moves have been made by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) recently, which are believed to be the steps of the central bank to pave the way for a possible increase of the compulsory reserve ratio.