Traditional craft villages festival in Oct

VietNamNet Bridge – A festival featuring the tourism products of traditional craft villages of Ha Noi and Red River Delta provinces will take place from October 12 – 18, according to the Municipal People’s Committee.

HCM City to launch new stock indices

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Stock Exchange announced that next year it would deploy five new indices, named the VNMidcap, VNSmallcap, VN100, VN-Industry and VNAllshares.

Live music trend shakes up sleepy districts

 VietNamNet Bridge – While city people often head to karaoke lounges to blow off steam, those living in the rural area in the southern province of Phu Yen rely on their own voices.

Power market’s low competition

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s competitive power generation market has attracted less than expected registrants after operating for over a year.

Seven attractive destinations in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge - Beautiful beaches, year-round green tropical parks, mighty rivers, unique fishing villages, special culinary characteristics ... are always the force of gravity of Vietnam in the eyes of foreign travelers.

Hunting rats in Southern Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the southern province of Dong Thap, many farmers regard the rats in their fields as a valuable source of protein and additional income during the time between crops.

Son Dong fine arts village, home of artisans

Son Dong Village in Hanoi’s outlying Hoai Duc District is known as a dynamic craft village with enduring vitality, where talented artisans breathe fresh air into their products and enthusiastically promote their brand to the world.

Cat amongst the pigeons

VietNamNet Bridge – Inspectors from the HCM City Department of Health recently appeared without notice at the Apollo Clinic in District 1 to inspect operations. The clinic was reported to be using a team of unqualified Chinese doctors.

Book sheds new light on Viet Nam's military mastermind

VietNamNet Bridge – Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen Vo Nguyen Giap is considered the most complete research by a foreigner about the life and cause of Viet Nam's most talented general of the 20th century.

Newborn baby ineligibly named board chairman

VietNamNet Bridge – Dai Nam Joint Stock Company’s chairman Huynh Uy Dung and his wife have just announced their one-year-old child as the new board chairman in an unprecedented move, which has swiftly met rejections by law experts as illegal.

Vietnam sees great opportunity from semiconductor industry

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts believe that it’s now the right time for Vietnam to join the global IC production chain, a golden opportunity to approach to high technologies.

Bad debt settlement: do it yourself

Even though the State Bank has released the two important legal documents which guide the bad debt purchases, analysts still don’t think the Vietnam Asset Management Company  would be useful for the debt settlement.

Restoring order in shrimp material export: An urgent need

 VietNamNet Bridge – Massive Chinese buy-ups of pre-processed shrimp for export and processing at home have left the processing and export market in disarray.

Music man's soup and sounds hit right note

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though he is the descendent of a poor farming' family in Nhue Duong Commune in the northern province of Hung Yen, Cao Ky Kinh's affinity for music was predestined.

Hanoi opens more information kiosks to serve foreign tourists

 VietNamNet Bridge - The information desks at the main tourist sites in Hanoi will receive complaints and feedback of visitors.

Embezzlers jailed for 103 years

 Eight people were sentenced to a total of 103 years in prison in southern Vinh Long Province's court yesterday for embezzlement involving the making and repair of cultural and historical relics.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 29/9

 VFA lowers rice export target; Local lending grows by 5.83%; Local firms lack knowledge of TPP trade agreement; Lax management blamed for uncontrollable imported milk prices

HCMC to have first Bus Rapid Transit by 2018

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first modern Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line in Ho Chi Minh City on the Vo Van Kiet-Mai Chi Tho Highway is expected to be ready by mid-2018.

Foreigners sell toothpaste at below production costs?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Domestic manufacturers have accused foreign brands of dumping toothpaste products in the market in a long term plan to kill domestic brands.

Rice farmers head for pastures new

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is famous for being the land of rice. However, an increasing number of struggling farmers are going against the grain and selling their land to search for new and more profitable work.

Students strive to keep folk songs alive

 VietNamNet Bridge – A high school in Thai Nguyen Province has been teaching its young pupils the art of traditional then singing in a bid to preserve the genre and pass the baton to a new generation of artisans.

“White gold” plants encroach on forest’s territory

The rubber growing area in Vietnam has far exceeded the rubber plantation development program. While the socio-economic effects of the plants called as “white gold” remain unclear, thousands of hectares of natural forests have fallen down.

International sailboats coming to Nha Trang

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 20 international sailboats will compete at the Hong Kong to Vietnam Race 2013 starting in Hong Kong and ending in Nha Trang City in Khanh Hoa Province on a 656 nautical mile route.

Vietnam aims to win 76 gold medals at 2013 SEA Games

Head of the Vietnam sports delegation to the 27th Southeast Asian Games (27th SEA Games) – Mr. Lam Quang Thanh, says that Vietnam expects to win 76 gold medals from 29 sports at this event, which will be held in Myanmar later this year.

Street cable sketcher wired for success

 VietNamNet Bridge – Forty-year-old artist Nguyen Ngoc Dan has spent the last decade obsessively drawing and painting Viet Nam's maze of overhead wires, telegraph poles, loud speakers and traffic lights.