VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People’s Committee last week gave a green light to a metro station near Hoan Kiem Lake, inciting a heated discussion on the potential impacts on one of the most sacred areas of the city.

Vietnamese telecom groups have succeeded in raising the charges on international incoming calls from US2.6 cents to US6.1 cents. However, they have disagreed about the market share allocation.

Thirty percent of the math knowledge students receive at general schools proves to be useless for the students who do not continue following math studies at universities.

A lot of venture investment funds have been set up in Vietnam. However, due to many reasons, the venture funds still cannot make adventurous investments as per their nature.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Any individual or organisation that does not have their names included in the registration procedures of vehicles they own will be subject to fines from July 1,

‘Ca Mau’s water land’ by Ly Cao Tan, Le Cong Uan and Pham Thai Hoang is opening at HCMC Association of Fine Arts, displaying works on landscapes and people of the Mekong Delta Province of Ca Mau.

Than lan trinh nu (Leiolepis ngovantri sp. nov. Grismer & Grismer), a newly discovered reptile species, is believed to be the material to make a miracle drug good to gentlemen.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government is drafting a decree on sanctioning administration violations of copyright and related rights.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The mysterious disease that afflicted hundreds of people in Quang Ngai Province seven months ago has returned, with seven residents of the province’s Ba To District

 VietNamNet Bridge – Located in the northern province of Quang Ninh, Bai Tu Long National Park comprises 40 islands, either earth or limestone, scattering across three communes, Ha Long, Van Yen

VietNamNet Bridge - April is the peak time for thousands of people in the mountain districts of Tay Tra and Tra Bong in the central province of Quang Ngai to busily harvest, process and sell cinnamon.

Despite the economic recession and the gloomy stock market, the shares of consumer goods enterprises have always been attractive in the eyes of foreign investors.

"Vietnam’s sovereignty over the sea and the islands, especially the Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelagos must be powerfully shown in the Constitution," said Mr. Tran Ngoc Dinh, from the Hanoi Law University.

VietNamNet Bridge - Most of the anti-dumping lawsuits targeting the labor and environmental resources intensive industries. These are the "holes" vulnerable to trade defense measures for piercing.

 Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a very close approach to Mars in October 2014, U.S. space agency NASA announced Tuesday in a statement.

SBV: It’s not time to import gold; Vietnam’s 36 mil. motorbikes by 2020; VNA uses large aircraft for Myanmar; When Air Mekong resumes services unknown; Dong Nai leads in FDI attraction

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Golden Kite Awards seem unattractive to both producers and audiences lately and have faced criticisms after nominating two unreleased movies.

The Ministry of Information and Communications on March 4 issued a circular requiring tighter management on the service quality of mobile phones, fixed line telephones and ADSL internet.

Whether the domestic gold price decreases to come closer to the world price depends on the amount of gold the State Bank would put into circulation and the people’s confidence on the bank’s policies.

VietNamNet Bridge – PM Nguyen Tan Dung on March 4, officially allowed the State Bank of Viet Nam to trade gold bars in efforts to stabilise the local gold market and to stock gold bullion for the State foreign exchange reserve.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam faces a high risk of bird flu outbreaks due to unfavourable weather conditions, which reduce animals’ natural resistance, as well as the development of new poultry flocks after Tet,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The annual Kovalevskaya awards 2012 honouring outstanding female scientists were presented at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 4.

  Quang Nam war massacre marked commemorated in Quang Nam; Australia, Vietnam cooperate on AO/dioxin victims’ struggle for justice; Vietnamese killed in fishing ship fire in South Africa

VietNamNet Bridge – With total investment of $100 million, the Van Phu urban area in Ha Dong district, Hanoi has hundreds of villas but just a few of them are in use.

VietNamNet Bridge – A conference was held in HCM City recently to collect experts’ opinion on chapter 9 of the draft amendment to the Constitution 1992 on “local government.”