Phan Thi Huong Giang, second runner-up of Miss Jewelry 2009 pageant, will be the Vietnamese representative at the Miss Global Beauty Queen 2011 pageant, in Seoul, South Korea.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Bulgarian football legend, Hristo Stoichkov in April paid a visit to Vietnam and met with officials of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – A quake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale occurred in Sin Ho in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau at 9 am, April 28.

US Congress to support VN ties; Viet Nam, Cambodia vow to crush smuggling, trade fraud; Germany to help VN bolster EU relations

High-quality Vietnamese goods fair opens in HCMC; Workers Month 2011 launched in Hanoi; Vietnam launches no-tobacco week; Discoverer of HPV vaccine to speak at seminar; Truck loses trailer, causing jam on Ca Pass       

VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition of more than 100 photographs of the sea, people and daily life in coastal Binh Thuan province opened yesterday, April 28, in the lobby of Viet Nam News Agency's southern office in District 3.

Multinational troupe offers charitable performances; Poland gives US$25,000 to restore Hue gate; Painting exhibition opens Hue Traditional Craft Festival; Exhibitions boast beauty of Cham temples and towers        

The death toll from the disastrous storms and tornados that swept through the southern United States has risen to nearly 300, with 194 confirmed fatalities in the state of Alabama alone, the latest tally showed Thursday.

New KL-HCM City flight added; Cruise ship to visit Viet Nam; Three-day Cambodia tour on offer; Solo helicopter tours for Da Nang; Festival hails Truong Sa islands

VietNamNet Bridge – Cyclist Do Tuan Anh won the seventh stage of the nation's most prestigious cycling tournament, the HCM City Television (HTV) Cup yesterday, April 28.

The US Department of State, on April 26, stated that it welcome a delay in construction of Laos’s Xayaburi Dam Project, and hoped that ASEAN countries could work out an environmentally sound solution.

Air pollution poses a threat to the health of about 154 million Americans -- or more than half of the U.S. population, the American Lung Association (ALA) said on Wednesday.

Three Misses Vietnam will appear in evening gowns designed by well-known fashion designer, Hoang Hai, at a gala in the central city of Da Nang on May 1.

Cassava products have been selling like hot cakes. Meanwhile, the consumption is expected to increase further in the next years. However, development programmers still have been called to reconsider the plan to develop cassava plants.

VietNamNet Bridge - With the April 30-May 1 holidays falling on a weekend and stretching it to four days, many people are taking the opportunity to vacation, enabling hotels and restaurants in many popular tourist destinations to make a killing.

The visiting vice leader of the Russian State Duma Wednesday conferred the "Russian Order of Friendship" on Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, the first Cuban and Latin American cosmonaut.

Nearly VND700 billion ($35 million) has been allocated to local governments and central agencies to prepare the National Assembly (NA) and People’s Council elections, which will take place on May 22.  

Apple Inc. on Wednesday denied the alleged location-tracking practice of its mobile operating system, saying it will release software updates to make iPhone store less location information to quell public concerns over privacy.

The escort motorist, who rode ahead of cyclists when they were just 500 meters from the destination line at the fifth round of the HTV Cycling Race on April 25, was concluded to have violated the cycling rule.

Harvard has been well known as one of the few universities in the world which set high requirements on students. However, this way frightens small Vietnamese girls.