VietNamNet Bridge – National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has seen some progress in its much delayed equitisation process with news that the carrier will start preparing the documents for its initial public offering during the next two months.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A change of career in middle age seems risky, especially when leaving a high-profile staff job to run your own business.

Readers have got tired of ad pieces on print papers, while TV watchers would switch to other channels when they see ads. With 28 million users, the Internet has become a new potential ad channel.

A newborn baby has been abandoned twice by his biological parents and adoptive parents because of HIV exposure. He is rescued by the help of thousand people coming out of the cyber world.

VietNamNet Bridge – The International Sea Tourism Fair entitled ‘Sea, Island and Tourism Development’ will take place from June 7-10 in Nha Trang City in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

The chase for records never ceases. The Vinahouse joint-stock company will display the biggest dish of barbecued Cau Mong veal and a bowl of My Quang-Phu Chiem at the Vinahouse Space in the central Quang Nam Province's Dien Ban District

The Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC), a powerful legal entity established to restructure the bad debts, would issue bonds to deal with the debts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The internet helps people from very far-flung areas stay in touch with each other, but it also drives people who live in close proximity apart.

VietNamNet Bridge – Technology startups have been trying to attract the investments from venture capital funds or sell stakes to foreign firms, because they need capital to develop.

VietNamNet Bridge – Best-known for his good-natured TV roles, HCM City actor Huynh Dong recently won two Canh Dieu Vang (Golden Kite) awards for both movie and television performances.

The candidates with foreign university degrees believe that they are superior to those who finish domestic schools. Therefore, they tend to demand high salaries.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In the next 10 years, Nguyen – the Vietnamese surname - is expected to "surpass" Smith to become the most popular last name in cities in Australia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi plans to pilot a test-based recruitment for some high civil servant positions this year under the city's target programme of administrative reform until 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The rural poverty rate is falling very fast. Indeed, farmers are mandatorily out of poverty, but their lives do not get better in fact.

The competition among bottled green tea market is getting stiffer. However, no one can say for sure that the brands with powerful financial capability would be able to crush weaker rivals.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A shop in Hollywood, home of the stars, is a direct line of support for poor heart patients in far away Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Italian magician Erix Logan has scheduled 20 performances in Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh City from May 28 to June 23 during his first tour of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Why can Chinese low quality and toxic products penetrate the Vietnamese market? Because Vietnam still does not have effective barriers to prevent the products.

Almost two-thirds of Europe's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public and most feel discriminated against, an EU report said Friday,

VietNamNet Bridge – The benefits from the titanium exploitation are much smaller than the loses localities incur. Especially, the local people’s lives have been upset by the exploitation.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced a cuisine festival at the Dam Sen Cultural Park in District 11 from May 16 to 19 and a fruit festival at the Suoi Tien Cultural Park

 Market for children’s goods, services exceeds US$5 bil./year; Vinacomin stands firm on bauxite projects; More staff recruited by realty brokerage firms; MVCorp cancels music download fee deal

 VietNamNet Bridge – The shortage of relevant infrastructure facilities combined with the real estate slump has resulted in 60 per cent of villas and townhouses in new urban areas in Hanoi being left unfinished and unused.

VietNamNet Bridge – Award-winning dancer and now choreographer Linh Nga has to balance her passion for performance and teaching with her new role as a mother. She talks to the reporter about her latest production.

To be allowed to exploit sand in the Tien River, in addition to paying compulsory taxes, enterprises had to pay hundreds of millions dong to some officials of the Party Committee of Hong Ngu District.