Early last week, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered an interest rate cut of one percentage point following reports about a drop in the inflation rate and improved liquidity in the last few months of 2011.

“Being a fisherman at Vam Sat for one day” is the name of an eco-tour that gives travelers interesting experiences on their visit to Can Gio District, HCMC. The tour is served by Vam Sat Ecological Resort.

The Canadian province of British Columbia plans to increase its international student population by 50 percent over the next four years through closer educational cooperation with China.

More than a third of major cities saw property prices fall in February, on a yearly basis, and analysts said the trend will continue amid government curbs.

Transport companies have complained that they have been dragging out their existence because of too many kinds of fees, and that the road maintenance fee would kill them outright.

Dang Nang Long is now director of the Lak Lake Travel Co., an affiliate of the Tourism Company of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak. He owns eight elephants, the largest number of tamed elephants throughout the country.

China's auditing authorities said on Monday that 491 million yuan (77.84 million U.S. dollars) had been embezzled from the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway project.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Transfer pricing” - a technique to optimize profit has been popularly used for a long time worldwide, has not got special attention in Vietnam until recently.

"21 Jump Street" opened in the first place this weekend, garnering 35 million U.S. dollars in ticket receipts as was widely expected. Holdover "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" continued to cast a spell on moviegoers, as it finished in the second place

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There is no need to worry about pork quality, as pigs raised with chemical steroids comprise only 1 per cent of the pork in the market, said a senior official.

VietNamNet Bridge – The purpose of the wildlife rescue is to give treatment, then restore their wild instincts and rehabilitate them. However, it is now difficult to find safe places for them.

VietNamNet Bridge – The copyright of over 40 literary works by 11 Vietnamese writers will be offered for sale abroad from March 2012. It is a piece of good news for Vietnamese writers, though the result is unclear yet.

VietNamNet would like to introduce an analysis about Incentives and salaries in Vietnam’s public sector by Jairo Acuna Alfaro, UNDP's policy advisor on public administration reform.

The decentralization mechanism in foreign direct investment (FDI) management, which was hoped to ease the complicated procedures and created most favorable conditions to foreign investors, has turned out to be a burden on agencies.

VietNamNet Bridge – A number of leading academic experts have voiced strong opposition to a flood-prevention proposal that calls for construction of a sea dyke connecting the coastal regions of Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Tien Giang provinces.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ten stories of women who have migrated from rural to urban settings with the hopes of a better life are narrated in an on-going exhibition at Vietnamese Women's Museum in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – After a dozen of reservoir induced earthquakes over the past year, many cracks have appeared on the major barrage of the Song Tranh 2 Hydro-power Plant’s reservoir in the central province of Quang Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many tourist companies are launching promotions or reducing the price of domestic tours by VND2-3 million (US$95-140), according to travel agencies.

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos was elected as the new leader of the socialist PASOK party on Sunday in internal elections, ahead of the early general polls due later this spring.

The Ministry of Information and Communications will regulate each person to register a maximum of 18 simcards from mobile network operators.

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VietNamNet Bridge - The 42 Vietnamese women “stranded” in a four bed-room house in George Town, Penang State, Malaysia, will be sent to a women's protection center in Kuala Lumpur.

VietNamNet Bridge – A couple who came from Sweden, organized their wedding on the beach of Nha Trang, Vietnam, on March 17.

Vietnam may snatch the title of world's top rice exporter from Thailand this year, saying it aims to match last year's record shipments of 7.2 million tonnes helped by strong demand and a positive outlook for domestic production.