Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has directed ministries, sectors, as well as State-owned groups and corporations to complete the withdrawal of their capital from non-core businesses by this year end.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mui Doi - the East Pole of Vietnam is an attractive destination for adventurous tourists. Meanwhile, Mui Dien is an ideal place for couples to take wedding photos.

Hosting APEC forum in 2017 is a lynchpin of Vietnam’s foreign policy towards 2020, reflecting the country’s best possible contributions to promoting shared interests within APEC in the evolving regional landscape.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The first Miss Vietnam pageant was held 28 years ago. Vietnam has had 14 Miss Vietnam winners. Let’s review the lives of the 14 beauty queens.

 Philip Falcone, founder and CEO of the Harbinger Capital Partners, said Ho Tram is ready to pilot the local gaming policy.

 Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, a serious challenger at the recent Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, says she will be even more competitive at the world championships in Russia next month.

 A serious accident while sculpting a statue killed the desire to create in sculptor Le Cong Thanh, but the despondent man's trips to beer parlours changed all that. 

  It is a common thing to fix an electric fan, but when it comes to revive an old fan which stands among the first electric fans that were used in Vietnam, few people have enough knowledge and skills to fulfill the task.

Jan-Jun business startups surge in HCMC, Vietnam goods on show at Lotte Mart Saigon South, Credit growth improves in H1, Ministry rejects iron ore tax reduction proposal, Big C opens fifth store in Hanoi

VietNamNet Bridge - “Vietnam can produce PhDs. Why can’t it produce screws then?” Tran Quoc Tuan asked at a recent National Assembly session on policies to develop supporting industries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A huge fire broke out in a storehouse of Viet Long Packaging Company in Nhon Trach Industrial Zone 3 in Dong Nai Province last night, June 25.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s rice exporters continue to rely on the Chinese market. Experts warn Vietnam may fall into the Chinese ‘low-quality rice’ trap.

 Microsoft, a member of the Business Software Alliance, took legal action against the South Korean-owned Trimmers Vietnam Co for using pirated software, demanding compensation of VND748m.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Snakes not only appear in the suburbs but also downtown Saigon. Each day, the municipal emergency center receives reports of several cases of snakebite.

 France's interior minister has ordered a ban on the low-cost car-sharing service UberPOP after a day of nationwide protests by taxi drivers.

 BETOAJI, a non-profit organization established by Vietnamese students in Japan, has run cookery classes for those fond of cooking Vietnamese traditional dishes.

Opportunities for cooperation in preserving, processing and exporting farm produce were discussed at a meeting held in Bac Giang on June 25 between the Provincial People’s Committee and a delegation of representatives from ten different embassies.

 Public Security Minister General Tran Dai Quang joined senior representatives from the United Nations and 72 countries responsible for national security to attend a conference held from June 24-25 in Russia's city of Ulan-Ude.

 Denmark will support energy saving initiatives in the private sector in Vietnam under a programme worth 6.5 million USD.

 Nearly 45,000 individuals arriving in Vietnam by air, sea and land from countries affected by the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been screened by body-temperature scanners, a health official said.