Doan Anh Tuan, Director of the UNESCO Center for Research and Preservation of Vietnamese Antiques, owns a unique collection of ancient ceramic houses in Vietnam.

Inflation threat lingers on the back of petrol price hike; Retail sales see slower growth in first quarter; Securities firms to tighten risk controls; Sacombank secures global credit facility; Agricultural imports still too high

Russia launched a spacecraft with three astronauts on board from the Kazakh Baikonur space center early on Tuesday, Xinhua correspondents reported from the site.

The United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) on Tuesday received three telephone calls from senior military personalities who indicated that an order to end fighting had been issued to the Defense and Security Forces

VietNamNet Bridge - Toyota Vietnam drew broad public criticism after it refused to recall nearly 9,000 cars that it admitted to have technical flaws.

Kuwait's Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Tuesday reappointed former Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah to form a new cabinet, the official KUNA news agency said.

VietNamNet Bridge - A statement by the Acting Deputy Spokesperson of the US Department of State relating to a trial against Cu Huy Ha Vu on April 4 was an intervention in Vietnam’s internal affairs.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said Tuesday that it had detected radioactive seawater in the Pacific Ocean with a concentration of radioactive iodine many million times the legal limit.

Australian and Vietnamese scientists have found a new species of toads in Bi Doup - Nui Ba National Park in the Central Highlands Province of Lam Dong.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Though the world’s economy has to completely recover from the global financial crisis, high-technology investors, especially international groups, are still pouring money into projects in Vietnam.  

A surgeon who was adopted from a Vietnamese orphanage emerged Monday as the favourite to lead German Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partners after the embattled party head stepped down.  

The group of workers and underwater commandos who caught the Hoan Kiem turtle on April 3 is searching for the possible second turtle in the lake after discovering big bubbles on the surface.

Vietnam will spend US$44,000 to send three athletes for 6-month training trip in Germany and Bhutan to prepare for the Southeast Asian Games in November in Indonesia and the Asian qualifiers of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

The quality of public services for businesses is assessed through PCI, while the quality of public services for citizens is shown through the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI)

VietNamNet Bridge – The second winner of the first season of Vietnam Next Top Model in 2010 will be the Vietnamese representative at the Asian Model Search in Singapore from April 6 through 9.  

The public is now angry with advertisements for houses for low-income earners in Hanoi. The city’s Party Secretary Pham Quang Nghi on April 4 made a visit  to an apartment block for low-income earners in Kien Hung ward, Ha Dong district.

Developing embedded systems and embedded software has become the national policy of many countries in the world. Experts believe that Vietnam has major potential for embedded software outsourcing.

A Greek ship with 1,015 Vietnamese workers on board anchored at Cai Lan port in Quang Ninh northern province at 4 am, April 4.

After many days of halting public transactions, some foreign exchange shops in Hanoi are receiving clients again. However, the market is moving underground, and only loyal clients can make transactions.

Against the backdrop of the uneven and fragile global economic recovery, new approaches to tackle the global challenges and global cooperation are badly needed in the post-crisis era, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,