VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City plans to give investment priority to nine major service groups, four industrial groups and the agricultural sector during the 2011-15 period.

FC Barcelona beat Osasuna 2-0 in the Camp Nou stadium on Saturday night to maintain their eight-point lead over Real madrid at the top of the BBVA Primera Liga table.

 The information that Agribank Financial Leasing Company No.2, a subsidiary of the state-owned Agribank, had a loss of VND3 trillion in 2009, has startled many. However, AFLC2 is not the only state-owned enterprises found in making big losses.

Organizations and businesses operating in information and communications technology (ICT) who won the Vietnam Information and Communications Technology Award (VICTA) were honored at a ceremony in Hanoi on Saturday.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City plans to give investment priority to nine major service groups, four industrial groups and the agricultural sector during the 2011-15 period.

Two straight days of armed clashes between Cambodian and Thai troops over the disputed border areas have forced 1,420 Cambodian families to flee their home for safe shelter, said a senior government official on Saturday.

Foreign banks asked to limit 2011 credit growth; Once-promising IT industry languishes; Dung Quat to refine 10 million tonnes of petroleum per year; Retailer trademarks seen popular, says expert

Green lifestyle was quite the buzz among New Yorkers on Friday as they advocated healthy and sustainable ways of living to mark the 42nd annual Earth Day.

Landlords not hiking rent for poor get tax break; VN, French doctors talk nuclear medicine; Nine arrested for knifing police; 16 ethnic workers in coma after fish poisoning; Japan to cover airfares for returning foreign students

Vietnam wants Thailand and Cambodia to exercise maximum restraint to avoid armed clashes and continue resolving disputes through peaceful negotiations, a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.

German engineering giant Siemens has announced to donate software worth US$71 million next month to the Higher Education Engineering Alliance Program to help Vietnamese universities develop the next generation of engineers.

The application of e-commerce can help local businesses enhance their competitiveness and boost the country's industrialisation and modernisation, said a ministry official at a seminar held in HCM City yesterday.

Vietnam’s top track-and-field official and a consultant sent by the German Athletics Federation are not seeing eye to eye about athletes’ training and competition regimes ahead of next year’s London Olympics.

Foreign cruises have appeared again in Vietnam since the beginning of the year, after a two year period of interruption due to the global financial crisis. However, there are still many things that need to be done to develop cruise tourism.

A recent survey to record weight measurements and albumin levels of patients in Bach Mai hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (Hanoi), Cho Ray Hospital’s Department of Surgery (HCMC) and Can Tho Hospital, shows that 40-60% of the patients are underweight.

VietNamNet Bridge – The French Communist Party will promote the role of its representatives to tighten traditional solidarity, friendship and co-operation with the Communist Party of Viet Nam, contributing to friendly co-operative ties

VietNamNet Bridge - Six of the top 10 commercials out of more than 200 TV commercials are in the beverage industry, according to a survey released yesterday by research firm Cimigo.

Minh ousted from quarter-finals; Golfer offered free coaching; Viet Nam to host Asian U-19s; Coal and Minerals draw with Ha Noi

Libya's Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said Friday that the Libyan army will withdraw from the rebel-held city of Misrata.

Kate Middleton paid an emotional visit to Princess Diana's grave with Prince William days before their wedding, media reported Thursday.