The mysterious cracks in the ground, discovered in Di Linh Town, in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, are likely caused by active fault lines, but are no cause for concern of a possible earthquake, seismic experts have said.

VietNamNet Bridge - A tour boat numbered QN 2070 with 28 French nationals, one Vietnamese tour guide and 12 sailors on board sank in Ha Long Bay at 3:00 pm May 8.

The operator of the troubled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant opened the doors of the No. 1 reactor building on Sunday after obtaining the approval from the Japanese government's nuclear safety agency.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 18th ASEAN Summit concluded yesterday, May 8, with the release of the Chair's Statement on ASEAN Community-Building, the implementation of ASEAN Charter and other issues.

Egypt's Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) said on Sunday in a statement that 190 people detained in Muslims and Coptics clashes overnight in Cairo will face military trial.

Tuan Ha Lan, who won the “Golden Scissors” Award for the best hair designer in Vietnam in 2008, performed his talent at a hair show named “Story of Hair”, in Hanoi on May 4.

VietNamNet Bridge - Two heritages of Vietnam along with 40 natural and cultural properties in 40 countries will be considered by UNESCO for the inscription on the World Heritage List.

Security forces had killed 23 suicide attackers and detained four others in retaliation against Taliban insurgents in southern Kandahar province on Saturday, Interior Ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashari said Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s leading badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh (the world’s No.8) could not enter the final of the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold Tournament 2011, after being defeated 1-2 by Bao Chunlan in the semi-final on May 7.

Latest research released Friday shows that Google Android has become the No.1 smartphone platform in the United States in the first quarter as more smartphone manufacturers have adopted the operating system.

VietNamNet Bridge - ADB has wrapped up the 44th Annual Meeting of its Board of Governors in Hanoi, Vietnam and announced that the 2012 meeting would take place in Manila, Philippines.

Sixty-five years since the last feudal dynasty in Vietnam, an artisan who is the offspring of the chief chef of the last Nguyen Dynasty, re-produced a royal banquet with delicacies.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam's economic growth will slow to 6.2 per cent this year, with high inflation a key challenge for the country, according to the UN's 2011 Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific.

Limiting prolonged bottle use in children may be an effective way to help prevent obesity, a new study suggests.

VietNamNet Bridge - Tourist boat owners in the northern province of Quang Ninh face huge financial losses under the provincial People's Committee's decision to put stricter controls on tourist boats.

VietNamNet Bridge - “Vietnam still has more interesting stories to tell the world”, Mark Francis, Discovery Networks’ AP Director Production & Development said on a series of four Vietnamese documentaries shown on the network during May.

Rising labor and other production costs are threatening Asia’s competitiveness and preventing many countries from transitioning beyond the hard-won middle income status they have attained in recent decades.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Industry and Trade will pass the draft of a long-awaited incentive policy for wind farms to the Government this month, according to the ministry’s Department of Energy.         

VietNamNet Bridge - Prices of un-husked rice and polished rice have surged sharply in the Mekong Delta but farmers have failed to benefit from the price hike as they are currently out of stock of un-husked rice.  

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