Vietnam has announced that it will join the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The Vietnamese business community has agreed that Vietnam needs to join the new game in the global integration.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's Con Dao Island has been named as one of the top ten romantic destinations in the world for 2011 by the UK's Lonely Planet magazine.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Wednesday that the insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) had entered into an agreement with the Department of the Treasury,

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a huge and searing-hot planet loaded with an unusual amount of carbon, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Wednesday.

At least 21 people were killed in a collision between 2 passenger trains in Bangladesh's Narsingdi district, 51 kms northeast of capital Dhaka at about 5 p.m. local time Wednesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed a rapid new tuberculosis (TB) test which the UN agency said could revolutionize care and control of the disease, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here Wednesday.

Athens was hit by an hours-long traffic jam on Wednesday and users of train services nationwide faced idle wagons, as public transport system employees staged another 24-hour strike over austerity measures introduced to tackle an acute debt crisis.

VietNamNet Bridge – Bird flu has infected flocks in southern Ca Mau and northern Nam Dinh and central Nghe An provinces.

VietNamNet Bridge – A website designed to link overseas Vietnamese throughout the world was launched yesterday, Dec 8.

VietNamNet Bridge – The selection of priorities to ensure the budget would endanger the investment made in women and gender equality, UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) representative,

Vietnam, France keen on further bilateral cooperation; Regional police forces share training insights; Viet Nam, China conduct joint search and rescue drill; Mongolia defence minister visits VN

Recognition sought for amateur music; Exhibition displays gifts, foods for Tet; Children's story to be released this week

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra will perform a special concert tonight featuring famous choral and music pieces to welcome the festive season.

Chilean Prison director Luis Antonio Masferrer said on Wednesday that there were 81 fatal victims of the fire at San Miguel Prison in Santiago, not 83.

VietNamNet Bridge – The mushrooming of industrial zones is hampering the country's environmental protection efforts while threatening the health and livelihoods of residents.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ten-man Viet Nam defeated Singapore 1-0 to go through to the semi-finals of the Southeast Asian Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup yesterday, Dec 8, at Ha Noi's My Dinh Stadium.

VietNamNet Bridge - Three pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pay $421 million for reporting inflated drug prices to the US government, officials said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Miss Vietnam 2008 Thuy Dung and Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han appeared at the fashion show introducing collections by 20 Vietnamese designers at the French Consulate General in HCM City on December 4.