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Twelve teams to compete in Memorial Day cycling tour

VietNamNet Bridge – Twelve men's teams will participate in the Return to Truong Son cycling tour from July 15-20.

First school-based violence prevention project launched

VietNamNet Bridge – A school-based violence prevention project was launched in central Da Nang City on Monday by the Spanish NGO Paz y Desarrollo (PyD) and the central city's Department of Education and Training.

Vietnam ups effort to prevent mysterious Cambodia disease

The Vietnamese Health Ministry’s Preventive Health Department has urged authorities in all localities bordering Cambodia to strengthen their health quarantine systems to prevent penetration of the unidentified disease

Nuclear safety council convenes first session

VietNamNet Bridge – The first working session of Vietnam’s national nuclear safety council kicked off on July 11 in Hanoi.

Guest worker numbers projected to hit target

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is likely to achieve this year's target of sending 90,000 guest workers abroad despite the continuing global economic turbulence, a labour official said.

Poor students granted tuition fee exemption

VietNamNet Bridge – Some of Ha Noi's poorer students will be eligible for tuition fee exemptions from the coming school year.

International AIDS Conference to return to U.S. after 22 years

The 19th International AIDS Conference is set to be held in Washington D.C. on July 22-27, the first time in 22 years the United States will host the conference again.

Workshop talks green growth development

VietNamNet Bridge – Making cities more efficient, eco-friendly and liveable was discussed by 200 Government officials, lawmakers, business leaders and city planners on Tuesday at a workshop in Ha Noi.

Chinese men get heavy sentences for fake gold scam

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi People’s Court yesterday, July 11, opened a trial for two Chinese men, Zhong Tielin and Yang Faqing, who last year sold fake gold antiques and gold ingots to several people, including a lawyer.

Woman whose kidney got mistakenly cut, gets a new one

VietNamNet Bridge – After six months of treatment at the Hue Central Hospital in the ancient capital city of Hue, a Can Tho woman who lost her kidneys in an operation, was transplanted with a new kidney.

“Golden land” and villas left fallow in Hanoi

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of thousands of square meters of land at convenient positions in Hanoi are not used or become football grounds, parking lots or scrap grounds.

One stop shops now favored in Vietnam

More and more one stop shops have been set up in big cities since the day the first shop of this kind appeared on the market one year ago.

Vietnam Idol 2012 set for new record

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Idol 2012's "pre-casting round" has only passed through four cities, but it has already attracted more than 15,000 registrations, and is set to break the 2010 record of 20,000 registrations.

Ngung walks to national record

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thanh Ngung set a new national record in the men's 10,000m walk at the 19th HCM City International Track and Field Championships – Viet Nam Open 2012 yesterday, July 11.

Noodle party helps cool down summer

VietNamNet Bridge – Nobuyo Tajawa and her fellow Japanese expats living in the central city of Hoi An took about two hours to prepare their nagashi soumen (Japanese-style noodle) party on Hoang Van Thu Street yesterday, July 11.

Miss and Mr. Vietnam Continents 2012 announced

Vietnamese-origin Julia Ho, 22, from San Francisco, California and Tuan Anh Pham, 28, from Germany have recently become Miss and Mr. Vietnam Continents, respectively, at the final night of the second annual beauty pageant held in the US on July 10.

More fatal accidents occur on Hanoi’s major bridge

VietNamNet Bridge – In the first half of 2012, six accidents happened on Thang Long Bridge, killing seven people. With 32 broken sites, maximal speed will be restricted at 40km per hour.

Maradona wants to keep coaching UAE team

Diego Maradona said Wednesday he would like to continue to coach Dubai's Al Wasl team, despite the club's Tuesday announcement on his dismissal, according to local media sources.

ASEAN+1 meetings with 10 partners

The ASEAN+1 Foreign Ministers Meetings with 10 ASEAN partners took place in Phnom Penh on July 11.

Domestic fleet content with new regulation on container shipping market

The ships flying the Vietnamese flag now have the golden opportunity to regain the domestic container shipping market which is being controlled by foreign shipping firms.