Deputy PM meets with AIDS co-ordinator; Bamboo shoots with no certificates detected; Labour exchange deal with Saudis firm; Road accident kills 3, injures 8 in Lao Cai

The deforestation has not been stopped as promised by local authorities and forest ranger units. Vietnam’s forest coverage has dropped to less than 40 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge – Holiday-makers will have a chance to experience the daily life of local people in My Son Village, Duy Phu Commune, Duy Xuyen District, central Quang Nam Province through a new community tourism model.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Photographer Nguyen A has presented his new 800-page photo book featuring the images and life stories of 400 Vietnamese people who have made great contributions to society.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communication has announced that the number of foreign television programmes requiring Vietnamese subtitles has been cut from four to two, following a decision by the Prime Minister.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hospital fees in Ha Noi are expected to rise by about five times from August 1 this year if the proposal from the municipal Health Department is given the nod by the city's People's Council.

Vietnam’s rice exports have got stuck with the high inventory of 2 million tons of winter-spring rice by the end of the second quarter. Meanwhile, it is going to harvest 3.5 million tons of the summer-autumn rice.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is urgently seeking ways of sustaining its marine economy as climate change warms and raises sea levels - and, together with massive pollution, continues to destroy the nation's 110,000 hectares of coral reefs.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The thermometer of 1.16 m long, 0.31 m wide, is said to be the treasure of the elite in the resort city of Da Lat (Lam Dong Province) in the 40s.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Visitors will be free to visit Hoi An Ancient Town and the My Son temples (Quang Nam provinces) during the Festival that will take place from June 21 to 26.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Da Nang FC’s midfielder Quoc Anh received the award at the Vietnam Golden Ball 2012 award ceremony held in HCM City last night, May 7.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has sent a request to the Prime Minister asking for a reduction of 50 percent on Value Added Tax and 50 percent on Income Tax for this year, to help businesses

With the low pricing policy, Chinese telecom group Huawei has taken firm steps to conquer the Vietnamese market.

"I do not like drinking because drinking only bring about diseases. But in this position, receiving guests is also business," explained Mrs. Cut Thi Nguyen, deputy chair of Ky Son district, Nghe An province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cities and provinces from north to south Viet Nam have been selected as destinations for a gameshow titled Mission being shot by Italy's RAI TV.

 Vietnam People’s Navy honoured; Prime Minister receives WB Vice President; UNDP-funded project promotes legislative information exchange; PM to visit Russia, Belarus

 US police descended on an unremarkable home in a working class neighborhood of Cleveland after three women who had been missing for around a decade were rescued from kidnappers.

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The Vietnam History Science Association has honored 206 general school students who got high prizes at the national history competition.

Vietcombank, one of the biggest commercial banks in Vietnam, has pioneered in slashing the deposit interest rate to 6 percent per annum. Other banks have unanimously reduced the lending interest rates.

 Three people died and several others were missing in the water in the port of Genoa on Wednesday, after a container ship smashed into a control tower in a night-time accident.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Investment capital has continued to flow into the information technology (IT) sector via mergers and acquisitions after a number of M&A transactions were announced over the past four months.

VietNamNet Bridge – Travel firms have complained that cruise tourists have few opportunities to spend money in Viet Nam since there are very few points of sales serving the visitors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The famed Munich Chamber Choir will hold their first-ever concert in Asia at the Ha Noi Opera House on Thursday to kick off Europe Day 2013 in Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Those foreign-invested enterprises that failed to renew their expired investment certificates before July 1, 2011 may be saved from dissolution as the Government decides to remove such a requirement.