• Last Vietnamese in Libya to return home on March 9

    Last Vietnamese in Libya to return home on March 9

    07/03/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge - At around 1 o’clock in the morning of March 9 (Vietnam time), a Vietnam Airlines aircraft will leave Tunisia’s Djerba airport with the last of the Vietnamese workers evacuated from Libya....

  • Lesson from Thailand with Mekong dams

    Lesson from Thailand with Mekong dams

    05/03/2011 05:00

    The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on March 3 warned investors in dam construction projects in the Mekong River to learn the lesson from the dam on Mun River in Thailand, a failure in terms of economic, environmental and social impacts. The Thai...

  • EU center-right leaders meet in Helsinki to prepare for Eurozone Summit

    EU center-right leaders meet in Helsinki to prepare for Eurozone Summit

    05/03/2011 05:00

    A special summit of center-right EU leaders of the European People’s Party (EPP) was held in Helsinki, the capital of Finland on Friday evening, preparing for the Eurozone Summit on March 11. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (C),...

  • House passes bill to avert government shutdown 

    01/03/2011 05:00

    President Barack Obama responds to a question during a news conference at the White House in Washington February 15, 2011. The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to extend government funding for two more weeks, a move that...

  • Exclusive: Yahoo in talks to exit Japan: sources 

    01/03/2011 05:00

    A website of Yahoo Japan Corp is seen on a computer screen in Tokyo August 19, 2009. Yahoo Inc is in advanced talks to exit its joint venture in Japan with Softbank Corp, a move that could lead it to focus on reaching a decision on...

  • Legendary US pin-up Jane Russell dies: family 

    28/02/2011 05:00

    An original poster from the 1943 movie “The Outlaw” starring pin-up icon Jane Russell. Legendary screen siren and GI pin-up Jane Russell has died aged 89, the head of a child advocacy group she was involved with said, citing...

  • Madoff: ‘I made a lot of money’ for victims 

    28/02/2011 05:00

    Bernard Madoff arrives at Manhattan Federal court in 2009. Bernard Madoff, in prison for the biggest pyramid scheme fraud in Wall Street history, says that in reality he made a lot of people rich and that he suffered alone....

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