Amid rising concern over alleged cyber crime originating from China, the White House will unveil a new plan Wednesday to help US firms thwart the theft of billions of dollars in trade secrets.

The Dong Nai River has been playing a very important role in the development of the HCM City as the southern economic center. Therefore, when the river gets polluted, the economic center has suffered.

 Lance Armstrong said Wednesday that he will not cooperate with the US Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into dope cheats in cycling but would be willing to help other anti-doping inquiries.

Being concerned about the qualification of new IT school graduates, Vietnam now considers setting up new standards for IT skills in an effort to internationalize the quality of Vietnamese IT engineers.

VietNamNet Bridge – V-League champions SHB Da Nang are the favourites to lift the National Super Cup when they meet last year’s National Cup winners Xuan Thanh Sai Gon Cement on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam welcomed 6.8 million international visitors in 2012, bringing in nearly US$7 billion and marking a year-on-year increase of 13.86 per cent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – State employees and agencies are banned from using public vehicles to go to festivals and organising festival visits during working hours.

The government has decided that rice exporters would buy 2 million tons of husky rice from farmers. However, the effort by the government cannot ensure profits for farmers.

Because of petty conflicts in family life, many ruthless fathers used gasoline to burn their children. After a minute of anger in adults, children died unjustly or have to live with the pain of lifelong disability.

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After more than a week enjoying the lunar New Year, thousands of people in Soc Trang province went to the local police bureau to get identity cards before getting back to work in HCM City.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on February 19 announced that it has contracted with TerraTherm Inc. to carry out thermal remediation of dioxin at Da Nang airport in the central city of the same name.

VietNamNet Bridge – The exotic fish species which has the see-through body is now a favorite of Vietnamese ornamental fish breeders. They call the fish as “ghost fish.”

 Internet search king Google's shares pushed past $800 for the first time Tuesday despite a tough new challenge from Microsoft and looming European Union action over alleged privacy violations.

Trung Nguyen, the most famous Vietnamese coffee brand, plans to buy the roasters in the US and open cafes in Seattle, New York and Boston in 2013. The strategy was announced right after the US Starbucks opened its first store in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi Football Club has been transferred to Quang Huy Plastics Company just several weeks before the national football leagues start next month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Huu Phuoc, a National Assembly Deputy from HCM City, has had to apologise for using offensive language in criticising fellow deputy Duong Trung Quoc in a recent blog entry.

VietNamNet Bridge - In the early days of the lunar year, visitors can see a lot of children standing in front of Buddhist temples to beg.

On February 19, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front held a conference to collect opinions on the draft amended Constitution. Many delegated focused analysis of Article 4 of the Constitution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local tech firms are unsure about investing in private public projects (PPP) due to the lack of concrete guidance for their implementation in the ICT sector.