VietNamNet Bridge – Parents still have to allow their children to use mobile phones. Teachers also say they seem to be powerless to the “mobile phone addiction” of their students.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam once witnessed the boom of Internet ADSL services. The number of ADSL subscribers once grew so sharply that the service quality upgrading could not catch up with the increase. However, things are different now.

No government members involved in mismanagement at the infamous state-owned Vinashin shipbuilding group will be disciplined, Standing Deputy PM Nguyen Sinh Hung announced Monday during the National Assembly’s 9th session in Hanoi.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Youth Union Sunday announced a list of 10 Vietnamese outstanding young citizens in 2011, who are working in various fields like business, administrative management, sports, culture and arts, and social activities.

VietNamNet Bridge – A person living with HIV/AIDS will join the cast of the Youth Theatre's production Con Muon Den Truong (I Want to Go to School) for a college and university tour of the nation's central region between March 23 and April 8

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam had their second win in the FIFA Women's Olympic Football Tournament's Asian Zone qualifiers yesterday, March 21, beating rival Myanmar 2-0 in Chinese Taipei.

A Pakistani official confirmed Monday that 45 miners have died in a coal mine gas explosion in the country's southwestern Balochistan province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan spoke with Tin Tuc (News) about the need to improve the nation's preventive medicine network.

Car dealers and automobile joint ventures, who are impatiently waiting for imports from Japan, have become anxious upon hearing that Japanese automobile manufacturers have halted the operation of their factories in catastrophe-stricken areas.

HCMC rejects 40 tons of chicken meat from US; Higher fuel prices proposed to fight smuggling; Textile-garment industry confident to earn $13 bln in export; Coffee industry confers on growth path  

VietNamNet Bridge – A newborn baby and a buffalo standing near a house in the mountains are simple evocations of life in photos by Hoang Quoc Tuan.

VietNamNet Bridge – With a fear of childlessness hanging over their head, many couples decide to go against tradition and have babies before getting married.

Some banks can increase dividends and take other capital actions if they pass "stress tests," said Friday the U.S. Federal Reserve in a statement.

Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Monday that he is confident that the current nuclear crisis in Japan will be overcome.

More elderly people hospitalized as mercury drops; MIC predicts shortage of IT personnel; US helps Vietnam find MIAs; Fake NGOs, fake jackpot, bogus firm in Dong Nai; Two ministries had break-ins, laptop, cash stolen    

VietNamNet Bridge – A ship carrying 10,000 liters of petrol exploded and burnt out on the afternoon of March 21 on the Xang Na canal in the southern province of Bac Lieu.

The traditional definition of sovereign risk needs to be broadened in order to better understand and address the current financial challenges, concluded an International Monetary Fund (IMF) high-level conference in Washington on Friday.

President Nguyen Minh Triet and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung presented their working reports for the 2007-2011 term at the on-going ninth session of the 12th NA in Hanoi on March 21.

VietNamNet Bridge – The two nuclear power plants in Ninh Thuan province will be able to resist quakes of 7-8 Richter scales and will be protected by dikes which can prevent tsunamis of up to 15 meters.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Science and Technology will check radioactivity levels in Vietnamese returning from Japan and has plans to deal with radioactive dust in case it floats to Vietnam.