VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi authorities have asked for stricter punishment to help crack down on construction projects which have violated the city’s construction regulations.

VietNamNet Bridge – Modern ballet ‘Dream Puzzles’ will grace HCMC Opera House at 8 p.m. on July 9 with the HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theater under script and chorography of Nguyen Phuc Hai and Nguyen Phuc Hung.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnam National Assembly leader has asked the US to soon recognise Vietnam’s market economy status and grant the Generalised System of Preferences (GPS) to the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Travel guide book Lonely Planet recently listed banh mi as one of the most lip-smacking street foods around the world.

VietNamNet Bridge – Violinist Dinh Thi Doan Hoa, cellist Tran Thu Van and pianist Dao Trong Tuyen will perform classical works by famous composers at a concert in Hanoi on July 21. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese pianist Mai Charissa Tran Ringrose will join four talented students from the Vietnam National Academy of Music (VNAM) to perform at the French Cultural Centre, L’Espace, in Hanoi, on July 5. 

Reigning champions Spain roared into the Euro 2012 final here on Wednesday, beating Portugal 4-2 on penalties after 0-0 for both regular and extra time.

VietNamNet Bridge – Featuring 23 outstanding marksmen, the Army team has dominated the National Best Sharpshooter Championships which ended in Hanoi on June 27. 

Eximbank has shocked other bankers and businesses when announcing the credit program which offers to lend to businesses at the surprisingly low interest rate of 7 percent per annum.

VietNamNet Bridge – Millions of workers and people assessed to be living near the poverty line have not joined health insurance schemes three years after a law aiming at universal healthcare by 2015 was passed,

Doctors at the Children Hospital in the central city of Da Nang managed to save the life of a 10-year-old girl who was stung by bees and had to have almost 100 bee-stings removed from her body.

VietNamNet Bridge – Family members nationwide are getting a dose of knowledge of how to deal with family issues and life skills to improve relationships between parents and children.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s invitation for international bids is an illegal activity of no value, which seriously violates the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and does not comply with international oil and gas practices.

VietNamNet Bridge – A typhoon named Doksuri is quickly entering the East Sea and will make strong wind and waves from this afternoon, June 28.

Though the Ministry of Construction and local authorities have many times vowed to eliminate brick kilns in their localities, no considerable progress has been made in the last many years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and the European Union (EU) signed a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) in Brussels on June 27, opening a new chapter in bilateral relations.

A Hanoi based import-export company, when seeking candidates for some posts at the company, has specified that it would not accept the graduates of the Foreign Trade University (FTU), one of the most reputable schools in Vietnam.

VTV, VTC and HTV would follow the common standards to be set up for digital terrestrial television. If so, users would not have to buy other transceivers-receivers in case they want to use the services of other service providers.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese and Cambodian forestry administrations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost co-operation in the capital yesterday, June 27.

The UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) said that it is "alarmed" by the recent attacks on the pro-government al-Ekhbariah TV that left seven people killed, calling on all parties to protect the journalists as noncombatants,