US auto giant Ford said Thursday it will invest $773 million to expand factories across its home state of Michigan, generating 2,350 new jobs, part of a plan to add 12,000 jobs by 2015.

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The development of modern distribution channels in HCM City has slowed down in the economic downturn. However, the growth seems to be robust in new areas.

VietNamNet Bridge – Last year, prolonged unstable macroeconomic policies made the panorama of the Vietnamese economy quite bleak for foreign businesses.

Vietnamese students have more learning subjects and receive bigger volumes of knowledge everyday than the students from any other countries. However, they don’t have basic knowledge about history, nature and the things around them.

VietNamNet Bridge - Near the Doan Mon Gate, archaeologists have excavated more relics of the Ly, Tran, Le and Nguyen Dynasties that are overlaid on top of each other.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Construction has passed a circular governing the minimum proportion of unbaked brick used in buildings, aiming to boost the production and consumption of green building materials.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 80 per cent of helmets sold at markets are substandard and would not protect a rider's head in an accident, a conference heard on Dec 26.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) would strictly control mobile phone and SMS services next year, said deputy minister of Information and Communications Le Nam Thang. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Thua Thien–Hue has adopted a programme on developing new services in the ancient imperial city of Hue, aiming to attract more tourists to the world heritage site.

The biggest blunder made by Mai Linh, Thai Hoa, TNG or HQC, the giants in their business fields, was that they were burning to make investments to expand business. The overly hot development has made them lose control and fall into the default.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi plans to build eight large-scale abattoirs to meet the demands of consumers by 2015, the municipal People's Committee said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Visitors to the Museum of Ethnology can learn about traditional festivals in Val-de-Marne, a province neighbouring the French capital, and Yen Bai, a northern mountainous province of Viet Nam,

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 VietNamNet Bridge – It has been estimated that international visitors to Viet Nam numbered over 6,647,700, representing a rise of 9.5 per cent over last year, according the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 Obesity rates among small children may finally be on the decline after more than tripling in the United States the past 30 years, a new study indicated.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The annual vote to select the ten best athletes and five best coaches of 2012 will be held tomorrow, Dec 28, in Ha Noi, Da Nang and HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Securities company operations will be strengthened from January 15 under new regulations circulated by the Ministry of Finance and prompted by scandals surrounding securities companies.

When the ceiling deposit rate fell to 8 percent, the interest rate on the open market also reduced to 7 percent/year. Immediately, transactions on the open market operations (OMO) strongly increase. vious 6 weeks.

VietNamNet Bridge - The deal signed today, December 27, between Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ and Vietinbank can become a record M&A transaction in the financial sector of Vietnam when the investment value is up to $743 million.

VietNamNet Bridge – The selection of the Athlete of the Year 2012 has started and it is said to be the competition between gymnast Phan Thi Ha Thanh and senior gunner Hoang Xuan Vinh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Pangolins have become hot products because it is rumored that pangolins can help improve men’s sexual ability.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Priority should be given to the reinforcement of macro-economic stability in 2013, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said at a two-day video conference on ways to fulfil tasks for the next year