Students disdain social sciences; Bright students allowed to gallop past their peers; IT scholarships for 100 disabled people

Republicans haven't reached an agreement with the White House on a spending bill that would avert an April 8 shut-down of the federal government, said U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday.

Firework festival tours fully booked; Travel agencies ready for April 30; More flights to Phu Yen; Cruise ship returns to Ha Long; Central bay now national landscape

VietNamNet Bridge – A landslide this morning killed at least two people and injured five others on Len Co Mountain in Nghe An Province.

Japan has voiced intentions to decommission a severely damaged nuclear power plant whose continued radioactive leaks have kept thrown the country into an unrelenting crisis since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tinh Yeu va Khat Vong (Love and Aspiration), a classical drama written by Pham Ngoc Son, drew hundreds of viewers when it was performed in the central province of Phu Yen's Phu Hoa District on Wednesday night.

A five-storey building completely collapsed on March 31 afternoon on Hanoi’s Huynh Thuc Khang Street, partially demolishing the opposite five-storey apartment block and a computer supermarket. Fortunately, no human casualty was reported.

Vu Ba Phu, Deputy Director of the Competition Administration Department (CAD) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade think that Vietnamese shoe makers should not try to compete with rivals with low prices.

VietNamNet Bridge – The highlight of the music show tonight on March 31 to support Japanese victims will be the auction of ao dai owned by Vietnamese beauty queens, including two ao dai designed by Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han.

The first-ever reality show to recruit members for a girl band will be broadcast on the national Vietnam Television (VTV), channel 6 (VTV6) as of June 12.

VietNamNet Bridge – Travelers complain that it is nearly impossible to book tickets for flights to famous tourism sites like Nha Trang, Da Nang and Phu Quoc on April 30-May 1 holiday these days.

Sole command of military operations in Libya was passed to NATO early Thursday from United States.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City hospitals that fail to treat wastewater properly after December 26 will have their licences revoked, a health official said at a meeting on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – A free show featuring north Indian folk arts will take place at the Ha Noi Opera House on next Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

VietNamNet Bridge – As inflation drives up the cost of domestic tours, more and more holidaymakers are opting to travel abroad, according to tour operators.

Voters press for better transport infrastructure; Vietnam respects right to religious freedom; El Salvador FM welcomed in Vietnam; Female NA candidates improves skills

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday told the House Armed Services Committee that no one will be able to predict how long the military mission in Libya will take.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new five-floor Pizza Hut on Huynh Thuc Khang Street in Ha Noi's Dong Da District collapsed into rubble at 4pm yesterday afternoon, March 31, mere hours before it was scheduled to be inaugurated today.

Tensions between Italy and France were rising over the immigration emergency as more refugees coming from the southern island of Lampedusa tried to escape across the frontier and were pushed back by the French police.

The level of radioactive iodine-131 found in seawater near the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 kilometers northeast from Tokyo, has soared to its highest reading yet at a concentration of 4,385 times the legal limit.