VietNamNet Bridge – Boat people have been a part of life in many South-east Asian countries for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. Their distrust of land dwellers is often a shared emotion,

 VietNamNet Bridge – According to the state-owned shipbuilding company Vinashin’s plan to restructure and revamp, the company intends to keep only a workforce of 8,000 workers and lays off nearly 14,000 others.

 VietNamNet Bridge - American band Far East Movement will perform in Ho Chi Minh City in the program of the same name on the night of September 22 at the Fuse Bar, 138 Le Lai, Pham Ngu Lao Ward, District 1.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam National Satellite Center (VNSC) has sent 11 officers to Japan for training in aerospace technology at five universities in Japan under the Vietnam Aerospace Center Project.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many banks are hoping to offload their bad debts on the new asset management company after the central bank removed a major hurdle to selling their bad debts to the new asset management company,

 VietNamNet Bridge - Along with cuisines of various regions in Vietnam, Chinese cuisines with unique characteristics contribute to the multicolored culinary painting of Saigon.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tra Vinh has a big community of Khmer people so it is also the home to cultural treasures of the Khmer, including the system of more than 140 temples.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s number one bartender Le Thanh Tung, 25, is hoping to inspire the next generation by lecturing at the Tourism School in HCMC and bartending clubs.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade, and Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) have warned of severe shortage of power during the next dry season as existing hydropower plants are now old and new ones have still not been constructed.

 Tax incentives likely for tech-savvy enterprises; Vinh Long courts investors to back $1.1b project plan; Auto sales August surge bodes well for yearly target; Healthy appetite for animal feed raw material imports

 VietNamNet Bridge – Eight years after it was licensed, the project to develop Binh Tien Tourist Park in Cong Hai Commune in Ninh Thuan Province's Thuan Bac District has made no progress. No facility has been built on the land where 72 families live.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The restructure plan of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) is expected to launch in September, in which MobiFone will likely be separated from the group.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Bill English has said the New Zealand government will continue providing official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam at a steady level.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two American dancers from the “So you think you can dance” programme are due to be in Vietnam on September 17.

State owned enterprises (SOEs) which have been heavily criticized for the ineffective operation, would be put under the management of a committee or a specific ministry instead of the governing ministries as currently.

 Vietnam beat Hong Kong at the Davis Cup‘s BNP Paribas Asia/Oceania Zone Group III on September 15, qualifying for Group II of next year’s event.

 A troop banquet ceremony honoring the Hoang Sa Fleet which patrols Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelagoes on Ly Son Island in the central province of Quang Ngai will be revived in Hanoi this November.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tropical depression on September 17 strengthened into a storm which is moving towards the central coast of Vietnam, according to national weather experts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Entertainers of HCM City's leading drama troupe, IDECAF, believe that both young and old alike can enjoy musical dramas created for children.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A collaborative film between Viet Nam and Japan about famous 20th-century Vietnamese nationalist Phan Boi Chau, will be broadcast in both countries on September 29.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City's swimmers had struck gold many times over at the national swimming championships by the time the five-day competition came to a close yesterday (Sept 16) in Ha Noi.

 US scientists may have found a new way to produce clean energy by way of dirty water, according to a new study out Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In general, service providers will ease the service fees step by step to attract more users. However, this is not the thing happening in the Vietnamese 3G market.

Asian countries are widely known as the largest workshops of the world, especially of the famous Western fashion brands.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The State Bank of Vietnam has decided to allow enterprises to import gold to make jewelries domestically, a long awaiting decision to help ease the thirst for materials.