VietNamNet Bridge – Five teams from the UK, South Korea, Italy, China and Vietnam will participate in the International Firework Festival in the central city of Da Nang on April 29-30.

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter may visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) next month, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Thursday.

Billions of citizens from more than 130 countries are expected to turn off their lights on Saturday for the Earth Hour 2011, the event organizer told Australia's media on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – School hours finish at 4.30-5 pm, while parents cannot leave offices before 5.30 or 6 pm. That is the reason why a new kind of service has appeared in HCM City – supervising children after school.

VietNamNet Bridge – In late 2010, the HCM City Television Film Studio (TFS) won the first prize at the Festival for Photos, Documentaries and Reportages of ASEAN’s Land and People for its discovery-styled documentary named “Mekong Chronicle”.

Ho Chi Minh City consumers resume buying; Anti-inflation foods yet to lift prices; Firm unexpectedly lowers steel prices; Rising world food demand to lift exports; Luxury imports continue to flood market

The Vietnam Weight-lifting Federation now plays high hope on Thach Kim Tuan at the Southeast Asian Games 2011, who won a gold medal at the Youth Olympic 2010, after famous weight-lifter Hoang Anh Tuan was banned from competition for doping.

Family members and close friends held a private funeral service for Hollywood doyenne Elizabeth Taylor at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale near Los Angeles Thursday afternoon, one day after the movie legend passed away at age 79.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thuy Trang, 19, from the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak beat more than 600 contestants nationwide to win Miss Fashion 2011 in her home province last week.

Ngo Dang Nhan, Director of the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety and Control said that the Radioactive Cloud from Reactor No. 4 at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima – Japan would reach Vietnam by March 25.

Television rights for the European football championships, or Euro 2012, has remained a tousle between the two sides – the international sports rights marketing agency SportFive (S5) as the seller and Vietnamese TV stations as the purchasing side.

European Union (EU) leaders began their two-day summit on Thursday amid a political crisis in Portugal and protests by trade unions against austerity measures taken by eurozone member states to struggle out of the debt crisis.

VietNamNet Bridge – There has been just one major refereeing error in the seven rounds of the V-League so far, the head of the Referee Council said after a video review of all the matches.

High school students, teachers, and even parents all feel happy when for a third consecutive year geography has been unexpectedly included in the six compulsory subjects for the high school graduation exam in early June.

A group of researchers in east China's Nanjing city have voiced confidence that genetically modified pigs would be born later this year to provide much-needed organs for transplant into human bodies.

A total of 41 people have so far been killed with 48 injured in a strong quake that struck Myanmar' s northeastern Shan state Thursday night, the state TV reported in a breaking news Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – A group from the US ex-pressed their excite-ment when they related their trip to Ho Village, 20km northwest of Sa Pa.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City bus companies are not keen on buying the 1,680 new buses envisaged in a Department of Transport plan over the next five years since they feel the loan-interest subsidy they are getting is not adequate.

The FA Cup trophy of the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, arrived in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport on Friday and will be on display till the end of this month under the auspices of trademarked Big Cola.

NATO has decided to enforce the UN-mandated no-fly zone over Libya and would take over the command from the United States in "a couple of days," the alliance's chief said Thursday evening.