U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday night that he had reached a last-minute debt ceiling deal with Republican and Democratic leaders to stave off a looming debt default crisis.

Youth to submit ideas on ways to save costs; Local officials skeptical as storm fizzles out; US$10 million to resettle ethnic people; Poisoned kids discharged from hospital

The HCM City People's Committee has approved a pilot project to move the HCM City University of Foreign Languages and Information Technology and the International University AIT campuses to the Tay Bac Urban Area

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is ready to hold six-party talks without preconditions, the official KCNA news agency reported on Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Around one-fifth of enterprises in the country’s steel industry will likely go bust soon due to the very sluggish consumption of construction steel in the past two months, the Vietnam Steel Association warned.

VietNamNet Bridge – Newly-elected National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung Monday morning nominated a candidate from Ninh Binh province as the new Chief State Auditor.

VietNamNet Bridge –International Grand Master Le Quang Liem ranked second after a draw with Netherlands's Anish Giri at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Germany yesterday, July 31.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a decision to conduct a national survey on business, administrative, non-profit and religious establishments next year that would facilitate the country's assessment

VietNamNet Bridge – Businessmen and women working as National Assembly deputies should do their best to express the voice of business people to the parliament, NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung said

VietNamNet Bridge – One third of the total 600 foreign workers in Da Nang City had no work permit and poses difficulties for local authorities to ensure social order, according to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam won the World Vovinam Federation (WVVF)'s second World Vovinam Championships after bagging 20 gold, four silver and two bronze medals on Saturday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Sea Village Festival opens today, Aug 1, in the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan with participation of troupes from the south-central coastal provinces.

The project to build an access road from Nhat Tan bridge north of Hanoi to Noi Bai International Airport has been finalised to begin construction this month, according to Project Management Unit 85 (PMU85), the project developer’s representative.

The price escalations have forced state employees to fasten their belt and seek additional incomes from extra jobs. However, they now tend to become self-employed to evade tax instead of acting as hired workers for other agencies or companies.

Fifty people were injured in a train accident in Indian state of West Bengal Sunday evening, reported local media.

Experts at a conference on investment channels held in HCMC on Thursday differed over the impacts of high interest rates on enterprises, as some said the high cost of capital was driving local firms to bankruptcy and others rejected it.

VietNamNet Bridge – Poor infrastructure, particularly the transport system, is the deadly weak point of the Mekong Delta.

Scientists climbed up to the mountain in Pu Mat national park, Nghe an province in the early morning to listen to gibbons’ sounds to trace them. Finally, they found out more than 400 critically endangered white-cheeked crested gibbons.

The death toll from Sunday's suicide car bomb in Afghan Helmand province has risen to 11 with 12 others injured, a local official said.

An overloaded private pleasure boat carrying 16 people sank in the Moscow river after bumping into a cargo barge early Sunday, leaving nine passengers dead, authorities said.