Enterprises believe the business climate will be difficult again this year and most of them are content to just survive rather than expand.

The Hanoi Industry and Trade Department is seeking the approval by the city’s authorities for its plan to encourage Hanoians to travel on bicycles to help ease the environment pollution.

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 Millionaire businessman Horacio Cartes of the opposition Colorado Party, a political neophyte, has won Paraguay's presidential election, electoral officials said.

 A strong earthquake that struck the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan this weekend has killed 186 people, sent nearly 8,200 to hospitals and created a dire dearth of drinking water,

 Tens of thousands of runners flowed through the British capital Sunday in the London Marathon, after a solemn 30-second silence at the start for the victims of the bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon barely a week ago.

Curiosity has been raised when Highlands Coffee still keeps quiet, while the US Starbucks has entered Vietnam with noisy media campaigns and Trung Nguyen has triggered a war of words with the US giant.

Co Loa Studios, nearly 20km north of Ha Noi's centre, were built in 1960 and quickly became the home of Vietnamese cinema, through both times of peace and war.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese will soon be officially taught at primary and secondary schools in California, USA.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Top Vietnamese cellist Ngo Hoang Quan talks with Luong Thu Huong about his love for music and his career, which has taken him from Japan to Macedonia.

The Vietnam Tourism Association has petitioned the Prime Minister for a mechanism to issue visas at a number of border gates and to continue exempting visas for visitors from seven key markets of the local tourism industry.

 VietNamNet Bridge – High animal-feed prices are causing financial losses for husbandry households and farms, especially those that raise poultry, pigs and tra fish.

The increasingly high number of mobile devices in use and the rapid setback of the traditional marketing methods have both paved the way for the development of mobile marketing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport is working on a project to upgrade National Highway 1A by 2016 and install 21 toll stations along its 1,700km length.

Fixes key to boosting FDI; Nation still a tasty target; Land clearance slows power line project; Market heats up for domestic pepper exports; HCM City sees a leap in pledged FDI

VietNamNet Bridge – Collecting or making animal skeletons has attracted many young people because it is uncommon and the collected items are different from each other.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On April 4, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular No38/2013/TT-BTC amending preferential import duty rates applicable to some commodities,

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a workshop on selecting Vietnam’s national ceremonial costumes, garnering diverse opinions from experts and researchers in the fields of history, art and culture.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local information technology (IT) companies are racing to launch new products to claim their shares in the cloud computing market.

VietNamNet Bridge – Goods and farm produce exchanges still cannot attract businessmen over the last years, even though they are believed to be the inevitable goods transaction mode in the modern times.

Reports from cities and provinces revealed that during the first quarter of the year the number of applicants for unemployment insurance declined to over 91,300 people, a decrease of nearly 22 per cent year-on-year.

District 1 is brilliant at night with skylines buildings, while the District 2 riverside is deserted, dilapidated though land for the urban project which is expected be the most beautiful in Southeast Asia has been cleared.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The nation's gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to grow by 4.8 per cent during the second quarter of the year, lower than the previous quarter.

VietNamNet Bridge – At the age of 24, Nguyen Thanh Binh’s talent is recognized by prestigious music awards.

VietNamNet Bridge – As a beautiful uninhabited island, Hon Seo Island in Binh Dinh Province is an ideal destination for those who want to explore the sea and island, see colourful pebbles on the beach,