Local residents in Binh Duong province complain they have to live together with the smoke from incinerators.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The highest fine for food safety and hygiene violations will be increased threefold, according to a new decree issued by the Government.

BKAV, the best-known network security solution provider in Vietnam, has reported that 9.8 million messages are sent to mobile phone subscribers every day. Meanwhile, mobile network operators say the figure is unreliable.

State owned economic groups, considered the motive force of the national economy, have also complained about difficulties, while repeatedly begging for the preferences from the State.

VietNamNet Bridge – Science subjects have been taught in English at many general schools in big cities, where students can start learning English very soon and have good basic English skills.

Away from home, people from the poor countryside of Nam Dinh, Thai Binh and Thanh Hoa go to Ha Noi for a living. From one and two people, gradually the villages of migrant laborers have been formed amid the capital city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) provinces should focus on improving the lives of their ethnic minority communities as a crucial step to reinvigorating the faltering tourism sector in the region, experts say.

Ho Thi Bui, a 24-year-old member of the Pa Ko ethnic group in the central province of Quang Tri, had never touched a camera before she joined a short training course as part of project to help ethnic people document their lives in photographs.

Debt-ridden Greece is expected to get two more years to meet its fiscal target, although the country still has to wait for its desperately-needed financial aid, Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker said late Monday. 

Nguyen To Tranh, former Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vinh Long Province has been prosecuted for "intentionally breaking the State provisions" and "irresponsibility causing serious consequences."

VietNamNet Bridge – A tropical depression has just formed in the East Sea and it is moving towards the southern coast of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) this year does not offer a reward for the national football squad at the AFF Cup 2012.

Related to the “kissing” scandal between HCM City’s singer Dam Vinh Hung and two Buddhist monks, the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism summoned the singer to Hanoi and decided to impose VND5 million fine on him.

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VietNamNet Bridge - Website Global Beauties has reported that Miss Vietnam World 2010 Diem Huong will represent Vietnam at the Miss Universe 2012 pageant in Las Vegas (USA) this December.

A Cray supercomputer at the US government's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was named Monday the world's fastest, overtaking an IBM supercomputer at another American research center. 

The Dragonfly Theatre's original adaptation of Antoine de Saint Exupery's novella The Little Prince in English with Vietnamese supertitles was an eye-catching and magical experience for those who attended the play last week

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sixteen wild animals, all listed in the Vietnamese Red Book of endangered species, were rescued from household cages in HCM City in a joint effort by authorities and journalists last Saturday.

VietNamNet Bridge - The pictures of culture, beliefs and daily life of some ethnic minority groups in many parts of the country at the photo exhibition "Our Culture, Dialogue in Open Space" were taken by ethnic minority people.

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