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Vietnam moves out of top 100 FIFA rankings

VietNamNet Bridge - The national football team of Vietnam has dropped down by 22 places to stand at 120th position in the FIFA rankings in July, getting out of the top 100.

VFA to collect rice, market to be reheated

The information that the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has been assigned by the government to buy one million tons of the summer-autumn crop for storage from the second half of July has helped raise the rice prices.

Chinese reports on Spratly incident not true

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam News Agency affirms that Chinese media reports on four Chinese marine surveillance ships “blocking” and “chasing” Vietnamese Marine Police ships in the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago, are totally untrue.

Five dead during German hostage confrontation

Five people were dead during the confrontation between an armed kidnapper and the police in Karlsruhe, southwest Germany on Wednesday.

Hanoi’s Ceramic Road becomes cultivated area

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ceramic Road is a big work to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi capital. This is also a world Guinness record. However, some people have taken advantage of the road to plant vegetables.

Precious fishes found at Tham river valley

Tham river valley is not the biggest one in the region, while it opens to other valleys and rivers. However, this is the only place that the two species of precious fish – ca ro Tong Truong and ca trau tien vua.

Undiagnosed disease kills 61 Cambodian children, investigation underway

Cambodia's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) are currently conducting an active investigation of an unknown disease in Cambodia, which has killed 61 Cambodian young children since April,

Vietnam hopes to improve race by decoding the genome

If reasonable investments are made, Vietnam would be able to decode the genome of about 100 Vietnamese people by 2015.

Vietnamese businesses still struggle to find the way to live

The Vietnamese enterprises in the business fields dominated by foreigners, have still been struggling to survive. And they need the support from the State.

Vietnamese schools proclaim themselves international schools

According to the HCM City Education and Training Department, by the end of the last year, 27 international schools had been established and put under the department’s control.

Ignore the drizzle and picnic in style to Ta Ngao Waterfall

People say coming to the Central Highlands city of Bao Loc at this time of the year must be depressing with the constant drizzle and chilly weather making people feel sad and down.

Google shuts down five products

Google on Tuesday announced to shut down five products which are not core to its business.

Binh Phuoc: funeral spreads banknotes

VietNamNet Bridge – At 8am of July 2, a convoy of hearses spread VND1,000 banknotes and votive papers on a 15km road in Binh Phuoc province.

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Oil import taxes up, petrol prices down; Forum aims to boost trade with Portugal; Property developer saves cash; FDI disbursement stable despite lower pledged capital; A paradoxical result of real estate market

Vietnam Airlines set for major restructure

The Ministry of Transport has submitted a proposal to Prime Minister for approval to restructure national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines into a national group in the next eight years.

Japan-Vietnam cooperation for the benefit of Asia

VietNamNet Bridge – Japan wishes to cooperate with Vietnam for the sake of peace, stability and development in the region.

Rumormonger arrested in Dong Thap

VietNamNet Bridge – Police of the southern province of Dong Thap have arrested a man for spreading false rumors of someone who kidnapped children to take their internal organs for sale.

Neonatal units cut infant deaths

VietNamNet Bridge – Seeing 11-month-old toddler Bui Thi Anh, nobody would think she was born weighing 1.8kg when her mother was only seven months pregnant.

Police raid sea turtle slaughterhouse in south

VietNamNet Bridge – On July 3, police in the southern province of Dong Nai raided a residential home in Trang Bom District and caught a group of people in the process of butchering 43 sea turtles.

Town chairman dismissed for taking a rake-off of cleaning worker

VietNamNet Bridge – Chairman Huynh Van To of Ganh Hao town in the southern province of Bac Lieu has been dismissed for appropriating part of payment of cleaning workers and committing financial violations.