VietNamNet Bridge – Dong Thap Province plans to organise the biggest ever festival in the Mekong Delta region to mark the 30th anniversary of the Dong Thap Muoi (Plain of Reeds) sub-region.

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies discussed the draft Law on the Capital City in Ha Noi yesterday, Nov 16, with most deputies agreeing that the city needed a unique regime as the nation's capital.

VTV wins rights to cover AFF Cup; Calisto calls up Olympic players for AFF Cup; Vietnamese referee-of-year to officiate at ASEAN Cup; Athletics federation offers cash award to gold winners

VietNamNet Bridge – International grand master Le Quang Liem won a silver medal of the Asian Games' men's individual yesterday, Nov 16, in Guangzhou.

Tiger trafficker busted by police in Hanoi; Tobacco and ethanol petrol spared from new environment taxes; Delta to face long period of flooding

Stocks sag despite heavier trades; Aquaculture plants struggle with lack of raw material; Latin America trade to total $1.8 billion this year

VietNamNet Bridge – Fishermen in the southern province of Kien Giang on November 12 caught a big fish in a net.

It was not by chance that Steve Ballmer, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, when visiting Vietnam last May, decided to cooperate with FPT to develop cloud computing services in Vietnam.

At first, 3G services in Vietnam were thought to be designed only for those with high income. However, since service providers have been continuously lowering their fee, 3G has become affordable for the majority of people.

Vietnam has been too concentrated on economic growth rate. It is not because of the pressure put by international organizations, but it is the “tradition” of a centralized economy which focuses on plans, targets and achievements

VietNamNet Bridge – Half of the fat in urban people’s food rations comes from meat while they eat only 200 gram of vegetable a day averagely, said an expert from the National Institute for Nutrition.

The decision to allocate huge sums of money worth trillions dong to five state owned economic groups and general corporations has surprised the public

The annual report of the Institute of International Education (IIE) shows that the number of Vietnamese students studying at the universities in the US in 2009-2010 increased by 2.3 percent in comparison with the previous academic year

The contradictory information provided by the Ministry of Construction (MOC) and the Hanoi Planning and Architecture Department (HPAD) has made hundreds of buyers of the apartments at Kim Chung-Di Trach project feel anxious.

In mid-February, retired Lieutenant General Dong Sy Nguyen expressed concern over the long-term leasing of watershed forests to foreigners in certain provinces to a VietNamNet reporter.

Though shipping fees have increased by 10 percent over the previous year, shipping agents still cannot earn much money from shipping services, while their profit mainly come from ship trading.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 90 beauties of the Miss Earth 2010 pageant participated in the rehearsal for the ao dai competition in the morning of November 16 in Diamond Bay resort in Nha Trang city.

For the first time, scientists believe that they have been able to observe the birth of a black hole.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 90 beauties of the Miss Earth 2010 pageant participated in the rehearsal for the ao dai competition in the morning of November 16 in Diamond Bay resort in Nha Trang city.

Around 70 per cent of Japanese businesses operating in Viet Nam would continue to expand their operations, according to a survey recently released by the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO).