The National Assembly’s (NA) 13th Legislature’s fourth session was launched on October 22, 2012 looking for solutions to help firm unclog the economy.

A lot of private universities are still awaiting more students, though October is nearly ending, and state owned schools all have started a new academic year.

Businesses have demanded more loans in foreign currencies to prepare for the year-end production season. Meanwhile, banks have reported the sharp falls in the capital mobilized.

Vietnam takes pride of the higher number of PhDs than any other ASEAN country , but its number of scientific research works published on international journals remains modest.

Despite the current big economic difficulties, the mobile phone market has been growing steadily. The national economy has spent billions of dollars to import the luxurious products.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central city's Information and Communications Department has denied reports in local newspapers that some local residents have been accidentally exposed to dioxin.

The UNESCO-recognized world heritage, Hoi An ancient town, in central Viet Nam, has been named for the first time as one of the ten leading tourism cities in Asia, according to Condé Nast Traveler, the world's premier travel magazine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Huynh Van Anh, former coach of the V-League's Hoang Anh Gia Lai team, is aiming to take his new side all the way in this year's Lao National Cup and hopes some Vietnamese recruits can help him in his quest.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has unexpectedly resumed its sale of notes to commercial banks after four months of interruption.

VietNamNet Bridge - The land acquisition process at present does not create opportunity for farmers to benefit from the value of assets created from the conversion of land use purposes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi traffic police are targeting motorbike drivers that illegally travel along a new viaduct on the Ring Road 3.

  VietNamNet Bridge – The one-stop administrative procedure offices of 200 districts throughout Vietnam will be funded to equip computers, touch screens, cameras, etc. totaling VND300 billion ($15 million).

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi artists will restore the original art of xam tau dien (tramway xam singing) in a concert to be held at the Vietnamese Women's Museum from Friday to Sunday. 

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 Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that a component in green tea may help protect against Parkinson's disease, a local news channel reported on Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – What happens when a manager realises his concert hall has been double-booked on New Year's Eve – for two chorus groups made up of all housewives?

More than 140 scientists and managers from science parks, universities and institutes from 20 countries and territories in Asia will gather in HCM City for the 16th Asian Science Park Association annual conference tomorrow, Oct 25.

VietNamNet Bridge – Global beverage giant PepsiCo and Japan’s Suntory Holdings Ltd. have agreed to form a joint-venture in Vietnam. 

People now have to pay a heavy price for titanium ores. Schools, roads and jobs have been exchanged for seriously polluting the environment.

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 Apple Inc will begin to sell an 8-inch version of the iPad on Friday to compete with Amazon.com Inc's Kindle and other smaller tablets, but it set a higher-than-expected price tag of $329 that Wall Street fears could curb demand.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fitch Ratings has withdrawn Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai JSC's (HAGL) long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings of 'B' respectively. The 'B-' rating on its US$75 million notes due 2016 has also been withdrawn.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The artist Nguyen Van Cuong looks to reveal the nuances behind painted faces in his exhibition The Make-up Faces which opened in Ha Noi on Monday.

 UN provides US$2.38 million for gender equality; MAEP honours Major-General Trinh Quoc Khanh; International seminar offers lesson on Viet Nam; Siemens helps optimise healthcare services in Vietnam