VietNamNet Bridge – The 3rd annual Belgian-Vietnamese Comic Festival will take place in Hanoi from June 1 to 10 on the occasion of International Children's Day.

Dominated by three telecom giants, Viettel, VinaPhone and MobiFone, the Vietnamese mobile market had over 116 million subscriptions at the end of 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's men's chess team have won a gold medal in the blitz event at the ongoing Asian Team Chess Championships in China.

Quang Binh takes soft drinks from shelves; Hanoi CPI up 0.16 percent in May; Flooding to appear in northern region; Vietnamese people association opens office in RoK

A group of acrobatic primates living, and swinging from tree branches, in Vietnam are not faring so well, with three of the six species inching closer to extinction, finds a new report, released on May 21, on these primates called crested gibbons.

The People's Committee of HCM City has asked the Prime Minister to instruct the Ministry of Transport to revoke licences that allow the Hiep Phuoc Maritime and Investment Joint-Stock Company to dredge river beds

VietNamNet Bridge – An artist hailing from the northern province of Nam Dinh evokes beauty, nostalgia and a sense of sadness for disappearing scenes and traditions in an exhibition now open in HCM City.

Private spaceflight company SpaceX will try to launch its Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, U.S. space agency NASA announced Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign invested sea port developers have got bogged down in a competition of reducing loading and unloading fees to scramble for clients, thus facing the risks of incurring heavy losses.

VietNamNet would like to introduce a series of articles about the presidential election in the US, by G. Calvin Mackenzie, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of Government at Colby College  and currently a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – When asked what they are taught in the career guidance curriculum, most of 10th graders kept… quiet. No answer could be given by 11th and 12th graders as well.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism has proposed to the government a new decree under which scantily-clad stage entertainers could be banned from performance for a period of between three and six months.

VietNamNet Bridge – The warning about the heavy price people would have to pay for the rapid industrial production development was given many years ago. However, no improvement in the living environment has been made so far.

VietNamNet Bridge – Lex Nederlof of the Netherland's CCN team won the third stage of the International Cycling to the Northern Delta Tournament yesterday, May 21.

The HCM City government has approved of the drug addiction treatment plan using Methadone with around VND80 billion to be set aside to treat 14,000 drug addicts in the 2012-2015 period.

President bids farewell to Hungarian Ambassador; VUFO receives Ho Chi Minh memorabilia from India delegation; Viet Nam, Ukraine trade unions discuss ways to cement ties

VietNamNet Bridge – Six labourers are dead and four injured after an unexpected explosion at a quarry in Lai Xuan Commune, Thuy Nguyen District in the northern port city of Hai Phong at 10am yesterday, May 21.

Nearly 40 years after the end of the war in Vietnam, for the first time an old wartime bomb shelter of Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi Hotel opens to the public today, almost one year after its discovery.

VietNamNet Bridge – The fourth forum on natural resources and cultural preservation, towards the sustainable development of the Mekong Delta, took place in the southern province of Dong Thap on May 21.

In a government report on the implementation of the socio-economic plan for 2011, the government observed signs of declining economic growth, with many enterprises declaring themselves bankrupt.