VietNamNet Bridge – Model Dam Thu Trang, one of the top 20 contestants of Miss Vietnam 2010, is to bare all for artists to paint natural symbols on her body to support Earth Day on March 26.

Vietnam women ranked 4th in financial literacy; Hanoi to open Vietnam’s biggest shopping mall; First dragon fruit shipment exported to South Korea; City calls for intense anti-inflation battle

VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked cabinet members and local authorities to take concrete steps on thrift and cuts in public investment as measures to curb inflation.

The moon will move closer to Earth than it has been in more than 18 years Saturday night, space. com reported on Friday.

The NATO chief said on Friday that preconditions for taking military operations on Libya had been fulfilled and the alliance was working on completing its plans.

VietNamNet Bridge - The list of donors in Vietnam has grown longer by the day after many corporations and local media launched an appeal for contributions for Japan’s quake victims.

A new study has shown that gene therapy can reduce symptoms in patients with Parkinson's, media reports said Thursday.

Chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, arrived in Japan on Friday to check the worsening nuclear crisis in Fukushima, as the death toll of the March 11 powerful earthquake and ensuing tsunami rose

VietNamNet Bridge – A new eco-tourism park within the Bac Lieu Bird Nature Reserve has opened in the southernmost city of Bac Lieu to the delight of a growing numbers of tourists.

VietNamNet Bridge - The northern mountain region is facing a harsh cold spell and has had heavy snowfall in recent days. 

Mud eruptions occurring in Suoi Da hamlet, Loi Hai commune, Thuan Bac district in the central province of Ninh Thuan during the past two months have stirred public anxiety about a potential earthquake there amid Japan’s devastating tremors.

U.S. stocks rebounded on positive economic reports on Thursday, a day after the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq erased most of gains in 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – After the State Bank of Vietnam, in an effort to stabilize the gold market, reassured people that bullion gold remains a legal investment channel, people have rushed back to gold shops to purchase bar gold.

The people’s right to own and trade in gold is protected by the government but gold bullion can only be traded by government-appointed dealers, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung said at a meeting on March 17.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi authorities say they are determined to wipe out a total 550 deformed and super-slim houses in the city this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Ballet and Symphony Orchestra (HBSO) will entertain the city this weekend with a chamber music and ballet performance by young and veteran Vietnamese and South Korean talents.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Government and people hold great admiration for Japan's response to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung when visiting Japanese embassy

VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time, a Hollywood 3D cartoon is dubbed in Vietnamese under a project of MegaStar and the 20th Century Fox.

The streets of Cu Chi, one of the poorest districts in HCM City, are some of the best lit in the city since residents contributed US$760,000 following the United Nations Development Programme's Viet Nam Energy Efficient Public Lighting project.

VietNamNet Bridge – Poor infrastructure and service and a lack of co-ordination between the railway and tourism sectors are making train travel less attractive to tourists.