How do Americans decide how to cast their vote in a presidential election? Why do they choose one candidate over another? These are questions that have challenged scholars and journalists for as long as there have been elections in America.

A large ceramic painting featuring images of the historical agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Viet Nam, signed in Paris in 1973, will be hung at the convention hall in the Paris suburb of Choisy le Roi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vehicles that regularly travel on National Highway 8A, the section crossing Duc Tho town in the central province of Ha Tinh, are very familiar to a woman who usually stops cars on the road to ask for money.

Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service slashed the ratings of 13 Italian banks on Monday, citing the weakened credit profile of the Italian government.

VietNamNet Bridge – Four rather large potholes at the end of a new bridge in Ho Chi Minh City caused cars to shake when Tuoi Tre tested them out July 14, just days after the platform opened.

When the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries (Vinacomin) spent money to buy stakes of banks and insurance companies, it could not imagine that it would have to sell the stakes at a loss one day.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ly Son island district in Quang Ngai province in central Vietnam, is very famous for its specialty – garlic, which is compared to “natural antibiotic.”

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez enjoys a substantial 15 percent lead over opposition candidate Henrique Capriles in the run-up to the Oct. 7 election, survey results showed Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam plan to play up to 10 friendly matches in preparation for the Asean Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup later this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Wafaa Fardani, a young French painter, has opened her exhibition at a small restaurant in Hanoi. Fardani has lived in Vietnam for five years and the exhibition shows her interesting angles about Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vovinam, Vietnam’s traditional martial art, will be included in the list of sports for competition at the 27th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) to be held in Myanmar in 2013.

VietNamNet Bridge – Scientists of the Nha Trang Oceanography Institute have confirmed that the fish that attacked swimmers in Quy Nhon were sharks.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Football Federation is considering to hire a foreign technical director for the national football team, said the federation chairman Nguyen Trong Hy.

VietNamNet Bridge – International grandmaster Le Quang Liem clinched the first win on July 16 after suffering two consecutive defeats at the ACP Golden Classic, an international chess tournament in the Netherlands.

A series of cultural activities themed ‘Traditional crafts and contemporary arts’ have kicked off in ancient towns in Hanoi.

Tan Loc, Ngoc Anh and Ngoc Khai join dance troupe Arabesque to present a contemporary dance Suong Som (Early Dew) at 8 p.m. at HCMC Opera House on July 25 and 26.

VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese artists will demonstrate a traditional sword performance at the Japanese Bridge in the annual Hoi An-Japan Cultural Festival next month.

Clashes and skirmishes continued Monday for the second straight day in a number of southern neighborhoods of Syria's capital Damascus, witnesses and media reports say.

VietNamNet Bridge – Amateurs throwing heart and soul into their performances impressed judges more than trained counterparts from art and music schools at the Viet Nam Idol reality show auditions for the northern region.

VietNamNet Bridge – An artwork by the late Vietnamese painter Bui Xuan Phai is to go up for auction in Singapore on July 28.