VietNamNet Bridge – Lao Airlines on Tuesday officially launched direct flights from Laos’ Pakse to Danang nearly one year after piloting flights to the central coastal city,

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Public Security has discovered the biggest-ever online gambling den in Vietnam and arrested eight people, including five in Ho Chi Minh City and three in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – The three people who caught and brutally slaughtered three shanked langurs have been sentenced to 12-28 months in prison by the Sa Thay District People's Court in Kon Tum province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The total number of unemployed people in HCM City is expected to remain steady at about 150,000 throughout 2013, according to the City Centre for Job Placement.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Several schools in HCM City have leased their land for shops and parking, facing protests from parents.  

The number of Vietnamese businesses have been decreasing sharply in recent years, according to official reports by state management agencies.

If seeing prostitution as a profession and licensing the establishment of “red light districts,” it will certainly cause many implications, not only for those who participate in this sector, but also cause negative consequences for society.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hue Traditional Crafts Festival in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue will be launched from April 27 to May 1 and aims to highlight the local traditional crafts of various communities in the province.   

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport and relevant State agencies needed to mobilise social funding for transport projects, as the current funding available for the transport sector this year stood at only VND20 trillion

 VietNamNet Bridge – Coach Le Huynh Duc will not be taking the driving seat of the national team after a meeting with the Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) general secretary Ngo Le Bang.

It is highly possible that the State Bank of Vietnam would not make commitments on a fixed maximum depreciation of the local currency in 2013, but a flexible exchange rate policy would be pursued.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As the scorching months of summer slid by, sticky and humid in the Center of Vietnam, I looked forward to cooler temperatures and the relief of the monsoon rains.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A brand new book by Australian author Pam Scott, recounting about her many experiences living in Ha Noi, has been released by The Gioi (World) Publishers.

Industrial factories, workshops have been located in rural areas, bringing money and helping improve the living standards of local residents. However, they have to pay penalty for the money they receive today: more and more people die of cancer.

The Competition Administration Department (CAD), an arm of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), which conducted a survey on 10 business fields, has found out that oligopoly exists in six of them.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training--Nguyen Vinh Hien on January 8, 2013, said the ministry is considering to add “business” into the general school curriculum after 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As of January, 1, 2012, Viet Nam had around 342,000 enterprises, a 2.7 time rise against 2007, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO)’s census on economic and administrative units

The current policy on VAT incentives turns out to maltreat software firms, while the corporate income tax incentives have been benefiting foreign firms. Meanwhile, there has been no personal income tax for software workers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Jaime Zuniga came to HCM City in 2008 to work for one of the largest shipping and logistics companies in the world AP Moller-Maersk Group.

Vietnam will put greater effort into decentralisation model’s feasibility and effectiveness by strengthening state agencies’ coordination and management in a bid to improve the quality of foreign direct investment inflows to the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A flower festival will be in bloom at the Viet Nam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts from January 30 to February 5 to welcome the Lunar New Year.

Seafood and rice exporters face difficult first quarter; Mekong Delta has least FDI projects in Vietnam; Desperate firms call for government lifeline; Banking graduates face unemployment; Skills and experience prioritised, not degrees

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viettel has proposed that the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) increase the charges for foreign calls to Viet Nam from the current rate of 4.1 cents per minute to 6 cents.

 Thursday marked a bloody day for Pakistan as four blasts rocked the country, leaving at least 116 people killed and 235 others injured.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Vinh Hien, Deputy Minister of Education and Training, called for higher priority in the field of education and training in the midland and northern mountainous provinces.