VietNamNet Bridge – Climate change will make environmental protection in urban areas and industrial zones a more complicated task, especially in vulnerable coastal areas like HCM City and the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces

Tet price controls take hold in south; New invoice law keeps printing houses busy; Property firm sells share to FPT Capital investment firm; Dutch firm builds food plant in Binh Duong; Fifth Vinamac Expo to open next week

VietNamNet Bridge – The information technology (IT) industry had become an important economic sector that contributes significantly to gross domestic product (GDP).

VietNamNet Bridge – Strict punishment was necessary to stop speculation, illegal price rises and to prevent deliberate rumours having a negative impact on domestic markets.

VietNamNet Bridge – The best examples of Vietnamese fine arts produced during the past five-year period are on show at an exhibition of 836 artworks in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Question- and- answer sessions at the National Assembly had been declared closest to the interests of voters by Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong who said these included questions involving public discontent.

The launch of space shuttle Discovery will be belayed until February, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Friday.

The year 2010 is "almost certain" to be among the three hottest years since temperature records began in 1850, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.

Ecstasy-like drug mephedrone has been totally banned in the European Union (EU) 27 member states, European Commission announced Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Chairman of Ha Noi People's Committee Nguyen Huy Tuong has asked manufacturers in Me Linh District's Quang Minh 1 Industrial Zone to connect to the zone's wastewater treatment facility by the end of the year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi rock fans will have the opportunity to catch one of the United Kingdom's best underground rock bands as they stop in the capital for one night only tonight, Dec 4.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first round of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup football championship finished in a way that caught football fans and experts by surprise, with old hands stamping their authority onto the regional football map.

A workshop to launch the Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010 was held in Hanoi on November 30 with the participation of Professor Michael E. Porter from the Havard Business School.

In recent days, dozen of residents in central provinces of Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa had been tricked into going to the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong to pick coffee beans with meager payment.

Big Toe, Vietnam’s leading hip-hop dance group, finished fifth out of 17 teams from around the world in the annual Battle of the Year break dance contest that finished last Saturday in France.

Though the authorities of Lam Dong province said that hydro-power plants annually contributed millions of US dollars to the local budget, scientific analysis and statistics show that these works do harm rather than benefit the province.

Hosts and defending champions Vietnam are on top of group B in the Suzuki Cup being played in Hanoi after crushing Myanmar 7-1 Thursday. In another match in the group, Singapore and the Philippines drew 1-1.

Israeli shootings on Palestinians near Gaza's borders continued Friday, wounding one local worker collecting gravel in northern Gaza Strip.

VietNamNet Bridge - Education for Nature-Vietnam has slammed the Thanh Hoa Province administration for allowing official agencies to auction tiger-bone glue seized from a local resident.

Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has climbed to fifth place in the latest world’s men’s singles rankings -- the highest-ever ranking in his competition career.