The first show of season two of Vietnam Television’s “Universal Steps”; the version of the world famous “Dancing with the stars” reality show, took place in Hanoi on April 17, with 10 Vietnamese celebrities and their international partners.

The Michael Jackson Estate has settled a case with a Southern California charity over copyright infringement, media outlets reported on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Forty-one scientific and technological inventions and applications of Vietnamese scientists and businesses have been given awards by the Viet Nam Fund for Supporting Technological Creations (VIFOTEC).

VietNamNet Bridge – The blue-ear disease is making a comeback, adding more burden to farmers who have still been struggling with foot-and-mouth and bird flu diseases.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though Vietnamese securities are very cheap, they are not attractive in the eyes of foreign investors, because the investors fear the high inflation rate will make their assets decrease.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received Chinese deputy foreign minister Zhang Zhijun, who headed a Chinese governmental delegation on border negotiations, in Ha Noi yesterday, April 19.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hue's Phu Bai International Airport will be closed for a month from May 13 to allow repairs to be carried out on its only runway.

VietNamNet Bridge – The second meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change (AWGCC) opened in Ha Noi yesterday, April 19.

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Communists banned from having 5 children; Lao Cai cancels 39 hydroelectric projects; Hanoi hospital did 4 simultaneous transplants; Vietnam carries out free eye surgeries in Laos 

VietNamNet Bridge – Fifteen artists who also teach at the HCM City Fine Arts College and the Ha Noi Pedagogy University are displaying their works at an exhibition in HCM City.

While the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT) has not made any decisions about what it will do with two mobile networks MobiFone and VinaPhone, many investors have sent words, intimating that they want to buy MobiFone.

VietNamNet Bridge – Low-income houses, in theory, are built for low-income people, but in practice, these homes do not necessarily go to the intended residents.

Statistics Canada announced Tuesday that Canada's inflation rate rose to 3.3 percent in March, the highest since September 2008.

At least 17 people have been killed in different parts of northwest Nigeria's Gombe state after the presidential election, medical doctors said on Tuesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for "shared responsibility" of the nation to reduce the budget deficits, and touted the importance of the White House debt reduction plan for the prosperity of the country.

Japan's exports fell for the first time in 16 months in March, as the hugely negative impact of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on Japan's key export sector is becoming increasingly quantifiable,

A painting featuring peach blossoms made by 500 Vietnamese children, a gem-stone painting with signatures of international beauties and ao dai donated by Vietnamese beauty queens will be auctioned at VietNamNet’s show in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though Hanoi’s Chairman Nguyen The Thao has instructed government agencies based in the capital city and local people to save electricity in the dry season, many advertising boards are still bright at night.

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