VietNamNet Bridge – Consumer goods producers have voiced their concern about the material shortage, because they cannot compete with Chinese businessmen in collecting scrap metals.

British voters went to the polls on Thursday to decide whether they want to replace the first-past-the-post system with an alternative vote.

The death toll in a string of food poisoning cases at a Japanese barbecue restaurant chain has risen to four after a woman died Thursday, local media reported.

A pair of coconuts weighing nearly nine kilo each is on display at an exhibition in the southern province of Soc Trang.

Income from securities could get tax waiver; Vietnam’s footwear exports up 26.4 pct; Solo helicopter tours for Da Nang;  Dau Tieng reservoir to be replenished soon; Environment fund says soft loans await enterprises

Bill & Melina Gates Foundation is focusing on bringing together various partnerships in its efforts to empower the poorest people in the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa,

Seeking foreign strategic partners has not been listed as one of the important issues that bank management boards want to consult to shareholders at this year’s shareholders meetings.

VietNamNet introduces the collection of old photos of Saigon in the 1860-1909 period, owned by architect Doan Bac and his father, teacher Doan Thinh.

The reputed travel magazine Lonely Planet has recommended ten best tourist sites for walkers, including Sapa town in Vietnam’s northern mountain province of Lao Cai.  

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recently opened an exhibition of flowers and held a referendum on choosing the national flower in the central city of Da Nang. Over 97 percent of the votes supported the pink lotus.

Around 40,000 people in Vietnam die because of smoking annually, equivalent to the death cases caused by HIV/AIDS until March 2008, an expert said at a seminar in late April in Hanoi.

Vietnam’s top badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh defeated Indian player, Anand Pawar, 2-1 at the first round of the Grand Prix Gold Tournament, which opened in Malaysia on May 4.

Vietnam has been warned that it will not succeed in building up an e-government and become an information technology power if it cannot settle the current deficiency of information security experts.  

The State Bank has been warned that if restraining the exchange rate at low levels for too long, this may lead to bad consequences, including the liquidity weakening and higher trade gap.  

Film Screening “A Little Lieutenant”; New Program for Polish Violin Concert; Screening of Adrift; Photography Book “Spring Visits”

VietNamNet Bridge – Many cracks have mysteriously developed and widened on the ground over the past week in Lam Dong Province's Di Linh Town, sending its residents into panic and prompting district authorities to consider

Educators have rung the alarm bell over the quality of teachers, stressing that the qualification degrading should be seen a big worry for Vietnam’s education.

Latin American countries face an economic "overheating" with high consumer inflation, the International Monetary Found (IMF) said on Wednesday.

Vietnamese will have a chance to see meteor shower Eta Aquarids from the famous Halley’s comet in the evening of May 5, and early morning of May 6, according to NASA.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi expects to make 2.450 trillion VND (US$120 million ) from auctioning off 373 ha of land rights for the development of 62 new projects during the course of this year.