VietNamNet Bridge – A majority of homosexual students have suffered from communal discrimination and violence, including from their friends and teachers, according to experts addressing a workshop in the capital on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Soil erosion has become rampant in most river banks and river islands in southern Vietnam, with the exception of Long Hoa Island in Tra Vinh Province in the Mekong Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge – Travel firms in HCM City had many times refused to serve groups of foreign travelers because they could not find the tour guides who can speak less common languages and had practice cards.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Quang Ninh-based Tuan Chau Five Star Yacht Joint Stock Company (Paradise Cruise) has just launched a big promotion offering tours costing from only VND7 to VND1.7million (US$85), starting May 15.

The Vietnam Coal and Mineral Group (Vinacomin) has shouted for help, asking for the export tariff reduction to zero percent, or it would die because of the sale prices lower than the production costs.

VietNamNet Bridge – At the heart of HCM City, in Ward 15 of District 8, Ma Lang Hill is home to dozens of people who earn money by cleaning used hessian bags.

VietNamNet Bridge – The ‘Know Your Number' campaign, which aims to address the high rates of undiagnosed hypertension along adult men and women in the over 40 age group, was launched in the central coastal city yesterday, May 17.

VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-five pilots will participate in the International Parasailing Competition, which will be held from May 23 to 27 in the central city of Danang.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Fishing Association on May 16 formally objected to China’s fishing ban in the East Sea from May 16 to August 1, 2012, which includes areas in Vietnamese waters.

VietNamNet Bridge – Game distributors complained that their profits have decreased significantly due to the absence of the big gamers.

VietNamNet Bridge – The third session of the 13th National Assembly will open on May 21, and is expected to approve 13 draft laws and seven resolutions, and comment on six other bills.

The Olympic Flame for the 2012 London Games was welcomed with great enthusiasm in Athens, as it reached the Acropolis hill on Wednesday, finishing its long trip across Greece on the eve of the handover ceremony.

VietNamNet Bridge – At the third stage of the Asia Grand Prix 2012, Vietnamese athletes still performed very well but they could not reach standards to get a card to the Olympics.

A bus carrying nearly 60 passengers broke the banisters of Serepok Bridge on National Highway 14, which connects Dak Lak and Dak Nong provinces in central Vietnam, to fall into the river at night of May 17. Thirty-six people died.

Travel companies are offering huge promotional programmes and discount incentives of upto 30-40 per cent to lure travellers during this difficult economic time.

Vietnam has a trade promotion agency, in charge of running national trade promotion program, aiming to help Vietnamese exporters reach out to the world market. However, the agency remains helpless with “hand and foot bound.”

VietNamNet Bridge – In the past two months, up to 200 children have drowned in Vietnam, causing a big concern among the public.

Facebook Inc. on Wednesday increased its IPO shares by 84 million, totaling 421 million shares in an offering expected on Friday.

The HCM City inter-ministerial inspection delegation has found a series of real estate projects which have turned the land areas reserved for parks and verdure into the land for housing, office buildings and car parking lots.

Why do Hanoian parents all want to send their children to the Giang Vo Experimental School instead of other state owned schools in Hanoi? The answer lies in the “education technology” that the school is following.