VietNamNet Bridge – Only 3 per cent of public places surveyed in Ha Noi meet fire fighting and prevention regulations – including hospitals, schools and nightclubs, the city's fire police department said.

According to senior investigator, based on the bail request from Que’s family and taking into consideration the 69-year-old man’s health and his cooperation, police deem it unnecessary to detain him further.

VietNamNet Bridge – Construction of four new hospitals in HCM City's outlying districts will begin in September this year to ease crowding in central areas, the City People's Committee said at a meeting last week.

VietNamNet Bridge – Young people in Viet Nam don't have enough skills and knowledge to contend with the challenges they are about to face: economic insecurity, HIV/AIDS, pollution, migration and rapid urbanisation,

Few businesses have been using this tool, while the majority sit idle and watch the exchange rate fluctuations “blowing off” their profits.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is likely to bag between 70 and 90 gold medals to finish in the top two at the 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Indonesia in November, according to the national sports administration.

Chien wins golf tourney in Vinh Phuc; Liem to compete at German Chess tournament; Ajembe leads V-League's top-scorer rankings

Maternal cigarette smoking in the first trimester was associated with a 20 to 70 percent greater likelihood that a baby would be born with certain types of congenital heart defects,

VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary and Chairman of the National Assembly, Nguyen Phu Trong, received Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong in Hanoi on February 28. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The issuing of Decree 117 on the organisation and management of Special Use Forests (SUF) was an important step in the fight to protect our environment,

VietNamNet Bridge – The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam will organize an exhibition on Furoshiki – Japanese wrapping cloth at the center, 27 Quang Trung Street in Hanoi from March 3 to 10.

he appearance of several foreign enterprises which are scrambling to purchase farm produce have given domestic enterprises a great deal of anxiety.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), the holding group of EVN Telecom, has said it does not want to hold controlling stakes in the telecom company, because it needs to gather strength on developing power projects.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thai scholar Artha Nantachukra, who has directed a documentary series on President Ho Chi Minh, presented the series to Viet Nam Television's VTV4 channel here yesterday, Feb 28.

Vietnam is considering the possibility of hiring military vessels or aircrafts to save Vietnamese workers who are stuck in Libya, said Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affair Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.  

Even as the projected growth of U.S. Gross domestic product (GDP) for 2011 has been lifted to 3.3 percent from previous estimate of 2.6 percent, the job situation is not expected to improve much,

New Zealand police said on Tuesday that the death toll from the Feb. 22 Christchurch earthquake could be as high as 240.

Scientists have discovered the direct evidences for a new state of matter, superfluid, at the core of a neutron star, according to the study published in Physical Review Letters Friday.

China's railways carried a record 221 million passengers during a 40-day Spring Festival travel rush period that ended on Sunday, the Ministry of Railways said Monday.

Relevant agencies are weighing carefully higher ceiling domestic airfares to help ease local financial airlines’ burdens made heavier by the increasing price of the world’s crude oil and the devaluation of Vietnam dong against the dollar.