It's circa 2050 and shoppers are stopping off at Ikea to buy fine wine made in Sweden.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese top chess player Le Quang Liem gets additional 7.8 Elo points after the HDBank 2013 international chess tournament and has returned to the 30th place in the world rankings.

Chess GM Quang Liem back to top 30; Viet Nam remain 30th in FIFA women's world rankings; Ha Noi international badminton event underway; Local fighters to compete at Hong Kong karate open

VietNamNet Bridge – The national women’s football team ranks second in Southeast Asia after Thailand in the latest FIFA rankings for the first quarter of this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese American director Victor Vu, who is widely known for his film “Blood Letter”, is making a short film on the subject science fiction in Vietnam.

Giant hailstones pummel Lao Cai; Pilot skills testing system launched; Heroin trafficker faces death sentence; Mekong Delta to have prenatal, newborn screening; Ten outstanding young people honoured

VietNamNet Bridge – The Central Anti-Corruption Steering Committee convened for the second time in Ha Noi yesterday, March 26, headed by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

 Book gives Italian slant on Viet Nam; Jade statue of King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong displayed in Hue; Performing arts competition promotes traditional culture and national identity; Experts warn Hoa Chau Citadel is suffering deterioration

  Viet Nam strengthens wide-ranging ties with Qatar; Indian and Vietnamese Communist parties convene; Journalists give opinions to Constitution amendments; Vietnam journalist delegation welcomed in Laos

The country's referee circle has been shaken by the information that Mr. Dang Thanh Ha, a member of the referee committee of the Vietnam Professional Football JSC (VPF) is accused of embezzlement.

 Italy's financial sector has stabilized but the continued slow growth remains a major threat to its banks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday.

Ship owners have put their old ships on sale to get money to stop loss. However, it’s very difficult to find buyers at this moment, when even ship demolishing companies also refuse with a shake of the head.

VietNamNet Bridge - While singers who live by scandals and lip-sync are paid highly; there are instrumentalists accept dirt-cheap remuneration to live and die with the job.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s pay television market could face fierce competition with the proposed entrance of newcomers.

 The Cypriot government gave assurances on Tuesday that the Bank of Cyprus will not be wound down, after several hundred bank employees demonstrated in protest at the appointment of an administrator to run the bank.

The market has cooled after a long hot development period. The owners of rotary hotpot shops now have to get by on vouchers, while trying to sell their lines.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Phan Chau Trinh Culture Foundation has announced awards for outstanding people in the fields of culture and education, translation, research and Vietnamese studies.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has attributed the stagnation of the tourism industry to the lack of money to run tourism promotion campaigns.

Emily Whitehead is kind of a big deal. At age seven, she is the only child to have beaten back leukemia with the help of a new treatment that turned her own immune cells into targeted cancer killers.

There were the “billionaires’ islets” in Mekong Delta, where farmers got rich with their catfish farming.