The European Union (EU) will continue its aid assistance for Vietnam even when Vietnam joins the group of middle-income countries, Chief of the EU mission to Vietnam Sean Doyle and Hungarian Ambassador Vizi Laszlo confirmed.

VietNamNet Bridge – Writer and literary critic Hoang Ngoc Hien died here on Monday of colon cancer. He was 81.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of people in HCM City and Ha Noi began visiting the annual spring flower festival that opened last night, Jan 26.

VietNamNet Bridge – Paris-based Vietnamese artist Le Ba Dang has donated his unique collection of 12 cat sketches to the city of Hue on the occasion of Viet Nam's Year of the Cat.

A truck carrying beer hit the banister of Ben Thuy Bridge in Nghe An province and was upturned on the morning of January 26. Thousands of boxes of beers and beer cans felt to the road, causing chaos because locals rushed to pick up beer boxes.

VietNamNet Bridge – A collection of new songs by composer Le Van Tuan will be featured tonight, Jan 27, at the Opera House with eight members of the HCM City Symphony Orchestra.

VietNamNet Bridge – Increased use of taxis in cold weather, people going shopping or arranging last minute business has created the worst traffic in Ha Noi to date.  Almost all roads are gridlocked several times a day.

HCMC massage-parlor owner faces 11-13 years in jail; Da Nang newborn badly burnt, leg amputated; Smuggling cattle from Cambodia for Tet; Food shortage due to cold-related deaths; 100 escape death in triple road accident

The Ministry of Planning and Investment will carry out inspections of tourism and recreational-property projects in the central city of Da Nang and five other provinces to determine their feasibility, according to the Ministry's plan for this year.

Mobifone has announced its performance results for 2010 with a revenue growth rate of 31.5 per cent. The revenue was valued at VND36 trillion ($1.8 billion), making up around 35 per cent of its parent VNPT Group’s total revenue last year.

Picking the nose with a driller, hooking an iron hook onto the eyelid to pull a car, holding onto a whirling propeller with the tongue are among bloodcurdling items performed by Chinese artists in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Government has approved a General Department of Taxation proposal to extend the declaration of value added tax (VAT) for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and family-run businesses.

VietNamNet Bridge - After being ranked as the most optimistic nation in the world by a Gallup poll, Vietnam is now rated the world’s 61st happiest nation according to the latest Prosperity Index recently released by a UK think tank.

VietNamNet Bridge - Since the Tet shopping season is now at its peak, queuing in long lines to check out at overcrowded supermarkets has become an unwelcome reality for most shoppers in Ho Chi Minh City.

VietNamNet Bridge – In spring weather, ong do (calligraphers) wearing ao dai’s and turbans as they perform calligraphy on the street attracts attention.

VietNamNet Bridge – Diplomats and representatives of the UNESCO Vietnam on January 23 take a study tour at the Ho Dynasty Citadel in Thanh Hoa province to evaluate the architectural and historical values of this work.

Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet visited his primary school teacher. The newly elected Communist Party’s Central Committee’s Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong drove his motorbike to visit his old teacher.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Viet Nam's south will need between VND 7 and 8 trillion (US$350-400million) each year by 2015 for developing transmission networks to meet the increasing demand.

“Bóng ma học đường” delves into issues faced by teens with relation to family, love, and school violenceThree eagerly awaited Tet releases -- “Thien su 99”, “Bong ma hoc duong,” and “Co dau dai chien” -- all star hot actors and actresses.

VietNamNet captured the Kitchen God festival in Hanoi, which felt on January 26.