VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese athletes Ngo Huu Ky Phong and Le Thanh Cong both won gold medals at the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011, which drew to a close in Greece on Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – While the traffic light system in many parts of Ha Noi have been out of order for the past five months, local residents will have to wait until the first half of next year for the lights to be repaired.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's biodiversity conservation efforts continue to be woeful with the number of threatened species increasing and their threat status worsening, according to the latest National Environment Report (2010).

The owners of the fashion shops on Nguyen Trai, Hai Ba Trung and Nguyen Dinh Chieu streets in HCM City complain that the retail premises rentals now amount to 40-50 percent, the highest ever rentals so far.

VietNamNet Bridge – A classical concert featuring young talents from the Viet Nam National Academy of Music will be organised at the French cultural centre in Ha Noi tomorrow, July 7.

After seeing saxophonist Tran Manh Tuan performing Beo dat may troi (Drifting blossoms, floating clouds) on YouTube, I was hooked on the sweet but powerful melodies which sounded familiar to me.

For the past week, thousands of fish died and floated on Hanoi’s Truc Bach Lake, causing serious pollution.

VietNamNet Bridge – The US-Vietnam relations have been constantly developed and expanded in many fields over the past 16 years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Dom and Ven from Phu Quoc island will be competing in the FCI World Dog Show 2011 that runs from tomorrow, July 7, to Sunday in Paris.

  Cao Dai sect holds congress in Da Nang; Nelson Mandela Day to be observed in Vietnam; Strengthening ties between Vietnamese and Cambodian armies

VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 80 examinees nationwide were ordered to leave the testing room during the first round of university entrance examinations for violating regulations, announced the Ministry of Education and Training.

In order to ease the reliance on foreign technologies, Vietnam has been determined to manufacture equipment for power, cement plants and other industries. However, the projects on manufacturing equipments in the trial basis have not been successful.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hosts HCM City topped the National ParaGames for people with disabilities, which concluded yesterday, July 5, at the Tan Binh District's Culture and Sport Centre.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam was supposed to execute the condemned by lethal injection as of July 1 instead of the firing squad but the plan has been delayed, probably until September.

The U.S. Congressional Research Service has identified one of the Chinese government's goals of its military modernization effort as "displacing U.S. influence in the Pacific."

Eurozone countries will decide on a new bailout package for debt-ridden Greece in as late as the first half of September, Slovak Finance Minister Ivan Miklos told reporters on Monday.

Christine Lagarde, the newly-appointed Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Tuesday started a five-year term as the Washington-based global lender's first female chief.

The Drug Administration of Viet Nam has asked health examination and treatment units nationwide to carefully consider before prescribing Nizoral tablets with Ketoconnazole, especially for patients with a history of liver diseases.

VietNamNet Bridge – Regulations on labour outsourcing have been included for the first time in the second draft of the Labour Code in a bid to protect employees' rights, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Government to help Vietnam firms market; Vietnam's Mekong Housing Bank sets IPO on July 20; 45 aqua facilities awarded GlobalGAP; Made-in-Vietnam footwear popular; Vietnamese companies expand reach in Cambodia