Cassava products have been selling like hot cakes. Meanwhile, the consumption is expected to increase further in the next years. However, development programmers still have been called to reconsider the plan to develop cassava plants.

The visiting vice leader of the Russian State Duma Wednesday conferred the "Russian Order of Friendship" on Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, the first Cuban and Latin American cosmonaut.

VietNamNet Bridge - With the April 30-May 1 holidays falling on a weekend and stretching it to four days, many people are taking the opportunity to vacation, enabling hotels and restaurants in many popular tourist destinations to make a killing.

Nearly VND700 billion ($35 million) has been allocated to local governments and central agencies to prepare the National Assembly (NA) and People’s Council elections, which will take place on May 22.  

Apple Inc. on Wednesday denied the alleged location-tracking practice of its mobile operating system, saying it will release software updates to make iPhone store less location information to quell public concerns over privacy.

The escort motorist, who rode ahead of cyclists when they were just 500 meters from the destination line at the fifth round of the HTV Cycling Race on April 25, was concluded to have violated the cycling rule.

Harvard has been well known as one of the few universities in the world which set high requirements on students. However, this way frightens small Vietnamese girls.  

There was a salanganes island in Quang Binh province in the central region of Vietnam many years ago. However, the “salangane paradise” has appeared because of the cruel treatment of people.

Sony Corp. said Tuesday that names, birth dates and possibly credit card numbers of its 77 million PlayStation Network gamers may have been accessed in a hacker attack.

The special report submitted by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) to the government several days ago, writes that most of the private airlines are facing big difficulties in their operation.

Vietnamese exporters were lucky in the first quarter of the year, because the price increases in the world market, the dong/dollar exchange rate adjustment and the higher demand in foreign countries, have all helped them obtain high export turnover.

Rural poor households given new homes; House in Hanoi ancient quarters catches fire; Easter celebrations held in Hanoi; Train staff returns $2,380 left behind by passenger    

VietNamNet Bridge - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has planned to visit Vietnam this July.

Party Secretary General, Chairman of the National Election Council, Nguyen Phu Trong, has signed a decision to make public, the list of 827 candidates of the 13 National Assembly election of 183 voting precincts.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam and Cambodia are discussing closer co-operation to combat illegal, trans-border trading in wildlife at a two-day workshop that is being attended by their respective enforcement authorities.

The African Union (AU) called on NATO to stop targeting Libyan officials in their air raids, after NATO forces on Monday bombarded an office of Libyan Leader Muammer Gaddafi in the capital Tripoli,

Tra fish exporters still feel unhappy, even though the tra fish export volume increased by five percent, while export turnover increased by 21 percent in the first quarter of the year in comparison with the same period of 2010.

VietNamNet Bridge – The head of Russia's S.N. Fyodorov Eye Micro Surgery Complex promised here yesterday to transfer more high quality technology and services to Viet Nam's ophthalmological industry.

The death toll from storms spawned by tornadoes which swept across the southeastern part of the United States has risen to 72, U.S. media reported on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hue's unique food and horticultural delights will be on display at the Traditional Craft Festival that opens in the central city on Saturday.