VietNamNet Bridge - According to the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program, an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale occurred offshore Vietnam today at 2:24pm (185km from HCM City).

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Cuong and British Ambassador to Vietnam, Dr. Antony Stokes have signed the Vietnam-UK 2011 Action Plan which sets out a wide range of new initiatives on all seven pillars

VietNamNet Bridge – Power companies in northern Viet Nam have agreed to release valuable water from storage reservoirs to help farmers overcome severe drought.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand yesterday, Jan 26, reached an agreement to protect water quality in the Mekong River against emerging threats.

VietNamNet Bridge – The recent cold spells in the northern and north central regions have caused an estimated loss of VND130 billion (US$6.63 million) for the animal husbandry sector,

VietNamNet Bridge – For Associate Professor Tran Hoang Linh, teaching is fun but a busy lecturing schedule keeps him away from his true love, research.

VietNamNet Bridge - Khieu Thi Huyen Trang, 21, from Bac Giang Province won the first Viet Nam's Next Top Model competition on January 23 in HCM City. 

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.

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.

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.

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 - 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.