Vietnam finished in twelfth place with one gold and one bronze medal at the 15th Asian Junior Athletic Championships, which concluded on June 12 after four days of competition in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc today, June 15, affirmed that the economy has overcome difficulties and has started to recover.

The French film, which won eight nominations and The Best Actor award in Cesar Awards 2012, will be screened in Vietnam for the first time in mid June.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is trying to restore the ‘Zeng’ weaving craft of minority groups in its A Luoi mountain district to preserve the traditional craft and generate jobs for locals.

Vietnam has not been named in the latest list of most attractive retail markets according to a recent report from A. T. Kearney, a US-based global management consulting firm.

The number of snub-nosed monkeys, an endangered species, in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang has grown to over 100, said Hoang Van Tue, head of the management board of the Khau Ca Species and Habitat Conservation Centre.

Viral song clip links Vietnam, Euro 2012 histories; Aurora trio to perform free in Ha Noi; Domestic violence victims take to the theater; Brazilian guitar master to perform in Ha Noi

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 100 bears at the Bear Rescue Centre were condemned to almost certain death until Animals Asia Foundation established a Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao national park, the northern province of Vinh Phuc.

Meeting with the big barriers in the EU market, Vietnamese tra export companies tend to head for the US market. However, analysts have warned that this may lead to the overly hot development in the exports to the market.

A suicide car bomb tore through a bus station early Thursday in a suburban area of the Syrian capital Damascus, leaving 14 people injured and a nearby security complex damaged, witnesses and the state-run SANA news agency said.

VietNamNet Bridge – A thousand research works have been published on Vietnamese folk arts and culture by 446 artists, during the first phase of the ‘Publication and Promotion of Vietnamese Ethnic Group Folk Culture and Arts’ project (2008-2012).

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has made great progress in endorsing rights to freedom of belief and religion, according to the political advisor to the European Union Mission to Vietnam, Juan-Jose Almagro Herrador.

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of forged websites and blogs have appeared on Internet with fraudulence purposes, which have discredit many institutions and individuals, thus making the environment become unsafe.

The tourism industry is in dire need of tour guides fluent in Russian to cater to the rising number of Russian tourists to visit Vietnam in the coming time.

VietNamNet Bridge – The surveys on the English teaching ability conducted in some big cities and provinces showed that the number of teachers meeting the required standards is incredibly low.

HCM City’s dwellers sighed with relief when hundreds of brick kilns were relocated out of the residential quarters. However, a new worry has arisen when a series of coal production and trade establishments have mushroomed.

VietNamNet Bridge – The ad market is being dominated by foreigners. Vietnamese firms have been earning their living by acting as the second class agents and collecting “small change” every day.

Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) announced Tuesday successful results from its initial clinical trials of a vaccine against schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever because snails can serve as carriers.

Interest cap prompts rate war; Diesel-electric buses to be emission free; Vietnamese brands being bought by foreign companies; Vietnam halts export of five vegetables to EU market; Input shrimp cost exceeds export price

VietNamNet Bridge – Chinese contractors have been trying every possible way to refuse Vietnamese laborers, while bringing Chinese unskilled workers to Vietnam to undertake simple jobs.