Private tutoring has become the most popular job taken by university students, who want to earn money to feed themselves and fund their study.

VietNamNet Bridge – The growing trend of converging computer, TV and mobile phone has prompted firms to focus on generating contents to earn money.

The decision to relocate the Cau Trang coal sifting factory out of the residential quarter in Hong Ha ward of Ha Long City has been announced.

More than 150 foreign and Vietnamese scientists and managers discussed ways to preserve and promote the values of Halong Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh on July 24.

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on July 23 voted for Vietnam’s draft decision to dismiss the so-called Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF)’s application for consultative status with ECOSOC.

An airline passenger was sentenced to 15 months' probation and fined more than VND100 million (US$4,800) for joking about having bomb after boarding a flight from Hanoi to Da Lat.

Vietnamese students secured five medals, including two golds, one silver and two bonzes, at the 43rd International Physics Olympiad held in Estonia from July 13-25.

The establishment of a military garrison in the so-called Sansha City and the election of its municipal people’s council violates international law as well as Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos.

A lot of automobile manufacturers and car dealers, who have been weeping bitterly because of the slow sales caused by high taxes and fees, have shifted to another undertaking – trading pick-ups.

A novel approach to develop the first new tuberculosis combination drug regimen has cleared a major hurdle when Phase II clinical trial results have proved it could kill more than 99 percent of patients' TB bacteria within two weeks

The 19th International AIDS conference kicked off Sunday amid a U.S. lag in reducing new HIV infections, the condition that has led to 35 million deaths worldwide.

Vinacomin hikes electrical production; People turn back on modern markets; Chinese goods sold under Vietnamese brands; Vietnamese product campaign needs a boost; Industrial parks introduced in Tokyo 

The national trade deficit reached US$58 million in the first seven months of this year, representing only 0.09 per cent of total export value, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the ASEAN Secretariat will co-chair the 12th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Water Resource Management.

The activities by foreign businessmen of collecting farm produce in Vietnam would be put under strict control, once a circular on the issue, being drafted by MOIT is promulgated, slated for the third quarter of 2012.

VietNamNet Bridge – Applying good agricultural practices (VietGap) to vegetable farming has improved the lives of the members of HCM City's Phuoc An Cooperative, according to its chairman.

VietNamNet Bridge – A quiet cemetery in Doi Coc hamlet is similar to any other, but the perfectly lined rows of white tombs hold thousands of abandoned dead foetuses villagers brought back and buried.

The public debt crisis in Europe has dealt a strong blow to Vietnamese garment companies which have been sitting idle because of no orders.

London is cool most of the summer, but it comes scorching days sometimes, especially when the Olympics wind down in the city.

Quang Tri martyrs cemetery gets facelift; Men held for smuggling 50 airguns into VN; Laos honours Vietnamese scientists; Passengers miss flight due to airlines staff’s miscalculation