The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday that lessons from the first bailout program for Greece have been internalized and the current rescue plan is "on track".

 VietNamNet Bridge – The flag hoisting ceremony is performed daily at 6 am in the Ba Dinh Square, in front of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum.

VietNamNet Bridge – The national men’s football squad still tops the Southeast Asian region despite dropping one notch in the world rankings, according to the June announcement of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA).

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s top chess player Le Quang Liem had his first win in the opening match of the 2013 World Blitz and Rapid Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia on June 6.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Three Vietnamese and one Spanish designers put fashionistas into a beautiful world of natural materials at the Ecomia Fashion Show in Ha Noi on Wednesday night to celebrate World Environment Day.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The fire of a gasoline tank injured 12 people, a garage fire burned down over 30 motorcycles, and a house fire killed a woman. These are several fires reported in Hanoi this week.

Vietnamese businesses have shouted for help when their products are threatened by illegal low quality products. CITES Vietnam has called for the security agencies intervention.

When the National Assembly is about to conduct the vote of confidence for senior state officials, a prominent event caused strong "aftershock." It is the speech of PM Nguyen Tan Dung in the opening session of the 12th Shangri La Dialogue.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCMC urges the launch of a campaign called “Five Nations - One Destination” with the participation of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, aiming for a region with a uniform tourist visa

 VietNamNet Bridge - To avoid environmental pollution and bird flu, the HCM City authorities do not allow raising swiftlets in the downtown area and the new urban areas, except for Can Gio District.

 North Korea said Friday it would restore an official hotline with rival South Korea, but pushed back at Seoul's proposal of ministerial-level talks to be held in Seoul next week.

IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the science advisory organization to UNESCO, has confirmed that it has proposed not to grant the “world’s natural heritage” to the Vietnamese Cat Tien National Park.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The hands of famous artists like Prof. Dr. Tran Van Khe, People's Artist Le Thuy, singer Quang Dung, musician Nguyen Anh 9 ... are casted precisely for exhibition and preservation.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila Putina on Thursday announced their divorce.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has affirmed Viet Nam's consistent policy of building a dynamic and competitive market economy in a speech at the 2013 World Economic Forum on East Asia in Myanmar yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The US House Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on June 5 held a hearing on US-Vietnam relations with Representative Steven Chabot in the chair.

Experts all have agreed that it’s necessary to offer big investment incentives to encourage investors to pour money into wind power projects, but they still have not agreed on how big the preferences should be.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies met yesterday, June 6, in the capital to discuss proposed changes to Viet Nam's Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

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