Anticipating the increasing demand in the time to come, when the aviation market recovers from the crisis, airlines have rushed to open new air routes and offer sales promotion campaigns.

Vietnam has demanded that the Chinese side immediately cease actions that violated its sovereignty and hindered Vietnamese fishing boats and fishermen operating in the waters of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has decided to keep four cabinet members who submitted their letters of resignation earlier this week saying that they would vote against Kan in a no-confidence vote at parliament,

VietNamNet Bridge – Four economic areas will enjoy preferential interest rates when taking out official development assistance loans granted by foreign countries, according to the Government.

VietNamNet Bridge - A production line at Ba Huan, a private entities nominally have the right to do business in several fields; but in fact, their room for development has been restricted.

A possible second E. coli infection patient has been hospitalized in Szczecin, northwestern Poland, Health Minister Ewa Kopacz said Thursday.

Toyota New Zealand is recalling at least 132 first generation Prius hybrid cars due to a steering fault, local media reported Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of farmers living in the buffer zone of U Minh Forest in southern Kien Giang Province are in debt as rice cannot grow well in the high-alum soil there.

Thirty-six same-sex couples tied the knot Thursday at a high-profile public ceremony in Chicago's Millennium Park, a day after the newly-signed Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act that allows such marriages became effective.

Argentine football player Lionel Messi almost became victim of an attack on Thursday when leaving a bar in Rosario, 300 kilometers away from Buenos Aires, where a young man tried to punch him on the face.

Around 40,000 people in Vietnam die because of smoking annually, equivalent to the death cases caused by HIV/AIDS until March 2008. The figure will increase to 70,000 people a year by 2030.

VietNamNet Bridge - Under a draft fee scheme that would increase the cost of 350 health services, 220 services will more than double in cost while another 70 will shoot up between seven to tenfold.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam, battling Asia’s highest inflation rate, may put off increases in electricity prices even as the country faces “chronic” power shortages.

VietNamNet Bridge - Located in Giao Thuy District, Nam Dinh Province; Xuan Thuy National Park is an interesting tourist destination.

Viet Nam will begin constructing its largest badminton centre at Ha Noi's elite athletes training centre by the end of this year, the Viet Nam Badminton Federation's vice chairman and general secretary, Le Thanh Sang, said yesterday

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday he is confident that the United States can avert a debt crisis in the near future.

The personal computer software piracy rate in Vietnam fell two percentage points down to 83% last year, remarking the first decrease after three consecutive years with the unchanged rate of 85% in 2007-2009.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney formally announced Thursday that he will seek the Republican nomination to run for presidency in 2012.

HCM City operators offer discount tours to compensate for airfares; Las Vegas firm invests in luxury intergrated resort on beachfront; Japanese tourists shrug off the effects of recent disasters

The White House on Thursday engaged in a battle of words with Congress over the country's involvement in Libya, as the House of Representatives readies a resolution seeking clarity on Libya mission.