Iran's oil minister was removed along with two other ministers on Saturday by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad amid a plan to merge some ministries of the country, an information officer from the Oil Ministry told Xinhua.

VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung Saturday kicked off construction of a road in the southern province of Kien Giang that will link Vietnam to other Southeast Asian countries.

VietNamNet Bridge – Self-made tricycles are banned from traveling on Hanoi’s streets, except for those of war invalids or disabled people. However, hundreds of tricycles driven by young men are still used to transport over-sized goods.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Houses of hundreds of years old in the ancient village of Cu Da in Thanh Oai district, Hanoi, are being destroyed by villagers. Why?

VietNamNet Bridge - Some 300 domestic and foreign leaders in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector will gather at the Vietnam ICT Summit 2011, to be held for the first time in Hanoi on June 9-10.

VietNamNet Bridge - About three kilometers from the ancient town of Hoi An, the Dua nuoc (mangrove palm) forest in Cam Thanh Commune in the central province of Quang Nam has become a much sort after tourist destination.   

VietNamNet Bridge - This is a famous love market in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

VietNamNet Bridge – Big difficulties are attacking Vietnamese businesses from all sides. Meanwhile, they still cannot use the mobilized capital in the most effective way.

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Manchester United won a record 19th English league title after being drawn 1-1 by Blackburn Rovers on Saturday.

VietNamNet would like to introduce pictures of mountain kids taken by reader Ovuong. Ovuong took these photos while traveling Vietnam’s northern mountainous region.

VietNamNet’s Vu Trung spent over a day to discover gold mining and gold processing activities at Vietnam’s largest gold mine - Bong Mieu, in the central province of Quang Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Flower robot, bird robot, or the robots which can climb terrains, recognize handwriting or pronounce are all the unique creative products of students throughout the country, which are now displayed at Tech-show 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thirty to forty percent of foreign tourists to the southern province of Binh Thuan are Russian, and 95 percent of them go to Ham Tien – Mui Ne water area.

VietNamNet Bridge - The State Bank of Vietnam released a circular regulating on the requirements for obligated strategic partners of equitized banks, which are considered as too high for local investors, experts said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Coming to Vietnam at the age of 8 with her father, Andrea Aybar is now a professional model. She is compared as a “strange spice” in fashion shows in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – The major battle of the St. Giang Festival in Gia Lam district, Hanoi took place on the afternoon of May 11, attracting tens of thousand people.

VietNamNet Bridge - Quang Trung Software Park and Saigon Hi-Tech Park are two leading information technology centers of Vietnam, which are boosting the domestic hi-tech industry with their significant achievements. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Below are pictures of an exercise by air-force unit C35 on Su-30 planes. C35 is in charge of defending Vietnam’s southern sky.