Ho Chi Minh City to host Southern Fruit Festival; HCMC concert to feature Vietnamese chamber music; Exhibition features Hanoi’s traditional treasures; Mercedes Fascination Motorshow stops in Hanoi  

VietNamNet Bridge - A 72-year-old man has arrived in Hanoi after walking nearly 2,000 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City over a two-month period so he could visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Construction has just completed a draft circular allowing the use of resident apartment blocks for commercial purposes.

VinaPhone will on Friday begin selling a white iPhone 4 cell-phone global version at its stores across Vietnam. The enterprise is pricing the white version on a par with the black iPhone 4 despite high demand for the luxurious cell-phone.

Built at the cost of nearly $128 million, Hanoi Museum doesn’t have a single room to keep visitor belongings; electric wires run zigzags on the wall; some display areas are empty; exhibits are downgraded and it has a few visitors.

Economic experts and company directors discussed the development of the domestic economy, the impacts of Government policies and plans for the next six months at a seminar held by the Vietnam Association of Corporate Directors.

China, Japan and South Korea agreed to boost cooperation in disaster preparedness and nuclear power safety among other topics at a trilateral summit held here Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Phu Yen Province along the central coast offers a variety of unique and exotic dishes like Hoa Da girdle cake, dit leaf sour soup, ocean tuna and fresh seafood from O Loan lagoon.

China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) issued a circular on Friday banning the use of Nimesulide, an anti-inflammatory drug, for children under the age of 12, considering potential side-effects

The International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the policy advisory body of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Saturday called for an "open, transparent and merit-based" process in selecting a new IMF head.

Cristiano Ronaldo made Spanish football history on Saturday by breaking the all time goalscoring record with 40 goals in a single season for the Spanish La Liga.

They are all very young, because they were born in 1980s. However, they are all considered “high income earners”, because they can pocket millions of dong a month.

90 containers fall into canal due to landslide;  20% of vehicles unsafe; 14 charged for trafficking drug; Traffic accidents soar in first quarter; VN company fined US$3,000 for leaking oil in river

VietNamNet Bridge - The deposit interest rate at some commercial banks has significantly exceeded the State Bank of Viet Nam's cap and has hit 19 per cent per year.

An eruption has started in Iceland's most active volcano Grimsvotn, according to reports reaching here from Reykjavik on Saturday.

MOEX Offshore 2007, a Japanese company and one of BP's partners in the failed oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has agreed to pay BP 1.065 billion U.S. dollars over last year's disaster that unleashed the worst oil spill in U. S. history,

VietNamNet Bridge - Saigon Post and Telecommunication Service Joint Stock Corp (SPT), operator of CDMA network S-Fone, has finalized legal procedures to become Vietnam’s second mobile service joint venture.

Two U.S. astronauts conducted the first of four spacewalks for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission on Friday morning, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said.

Tran Hue Hoa will be Vietnam’s sole representative at the Asian Grand Prix Series this year, announced Nguyen Manh Hung, deputy general secretary of the Vietnam Athletics Federation (VAF).

Vietnam becomes biggest pepper exporter; Masan to open Singapore rep office; US cuts anti-dumping tariff on Vietnamese shrimps; US$412 million for Trung Son hydroelectric power plant construction