VietNamNet Bridge –The national team held its first training session at Thanh Long Sports Centre yesterday morning, June 16, to prepare for the first round of the 2014 World qualifying campaign.

Economy causes habits to change; New flights serve HCM City, Phan Thiet; Travel agencies form MICE club; One more hydrofoil service launches

 Mexican Senator: Vietnam a land of opportunity; Viet Nam congratulates newly elected Lao leaders; National English daily awarded Independence Order

After 20 years living in the US, music lecturer of MECA in Houston, Texas, Nguyen Quang Binh will have a solo show in HCM City on June 18.

Indonesia's terrorist suspect Abu Bakar Baasyir was sentenced to 15 years of life in prison, lighter than attorney's criminal prosecution of life imprisonment.

VietNamNet Bridge - China is staging three days of military exercises in the East Sea and plans to boost its offshore maritime patrol force, as tensions with its neighbours simmer.

VietNamNet Bridge –The carelessness of parents has contributed to an increasing number of injuries of children, according to the City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

VietNamNet Bridge – Equipment to supervise school hygiene will be installed in poor districts in 20 provinces under a school health project worth VND10 billion (US$486,000).

VietNamNet Bridge –Six footballers of Pham Gia Auto team will play for Thailand's Lampang United and Bangkok FC in the Thai futsal (indoor football) League, the team said yesterday, June 16.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City hopes to reduce the number of homeless children by at least 95 per cent from the current 1,450 by 2015, a city social affairs official said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Experts believe that Vietnam just needs to reduce the trade deficit with China, and its general trade imbalance will be settled.

The number of Syrian citizens fleeing unrest in their country and crossing into Turkey has reached 8,904, a Turkish official statement said Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Mexican Labour Party Wednesday handed over a statue of President Ho Chi Minh to Vietnam as a gift on the occasion of his 121 st birthday (May 19) and the 100th anniversary of the day he went abroad

VietNamNet Bridge - The internationally famous ‘ceramic road’ running along the Red River in Hanoi has now begun to show signs of damage and decay. 

Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the troubled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, on Thursday entered the final testing phase of a newly installed system to decontaminate dangerously high levels of radioactive water

VietNamNet Bridge – It is easy to find low cost tours nowadays: the information about low cost tours is available everywhere, not only on travel firms’ websites, but also on forums and classified ad websites. 

Al-Qaida announced on Thursday Ayman al-Zawahri as its new leader to succeed Osama bin Laden, who was killed on May 2 by a special U.S. force in Pakistan, an Islamic website said.

HCM City monitors prices of essential goods; Ho Chi Minh City workers fall prey to loan sharks; Importers decry restriction policy; Vietnam fruits find many markets ripe for plucking; Infrastructure company faces loss  

VietNamNet Bridge – Scientists from the Institute for Ecology and Biological Resources of Vietnam have suggested to add four species of insect into Vietnam’s Red List of Threatened Species.

VietNamNet Bridge – The race to secondary schools proves to be less stiff than the races to primary schools and high schools. However, it is very difficult to obtain a seat at prestigious schools.