Five years ago, Vietnamese banks kicked off the campaign of marching toward foreign markets. However, the achievements gained in the last five years remain modest.

VietNamNet Bridge – "Devised theatre" will be introduced to the country for the first time through a performance of Stranger in the capital today and tomorrow.

London 2012 organisers have announced changes to the Olympic mountain bike course, after feedback from competitors in last year's test event, the BBC said here on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong, met with officials, parliamentarians, local dignitaries, lecturers and students in the US State of Utah as part of his visit from March 30 to April 1.

VietNamNet Bridge – The recent research works all show that the landslide occurs in many areas of HCM City--which are sinking when the sea water rises.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though Vietnamese enterprises know well that renovating technology is the issue of vital importance, they still cannot do that because preferential loans remain unreachable.

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) agreed Wednesday on a draft protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products after four years of negotiations.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City vows to basically fulfill the task of universalizing preschool education for five-year-old children by the end of 2012. Meanwhile, there are still too many things to be done by that time.

At least four people were killed and 15 others injured in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Thursday morning, reported local Urdu TV channel ARY.

VietNamNet Bridge – Dao Khi or the Monkey Island in Lan Ha Bay of Hai Phong city is a favorite destination on weekends or holidays. Visitors are eager to go there to have bath or have party with monkeys.

A spoon with a "white crystal- like substance on it" and remnants of a "white powdery substance" were found in the hotel room where Whitney Houston died nearly two months ago, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said

The chamber music concert and performance of contemporary dance “Dream Puzzles” will be held by the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre (HSBO) at 8pm of April 9 at the HCM City Opera House.

Listed businesses and banks plan to mobilize 2.35 billion dollars worth of capital by issuing international bonds this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Crocias langbianbis, a rare and endemic species of bird of Vietnam has been discovered in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum.

VietNamNet Bridge – Several local newspapers have recently introduced famous gold-inlaid buildings in the world. But Vietnam also has gold-laminated construction works.

Yahoo on Wednesday announced to lay off 2,000 employees, or about 14 percent of the company's workforce.

A lot of foreign invested enterprises have been found as conducting the behavior of “transfer pricing” which have been forced to pay tax arrears. However, the fighting against price transfer has always been a thorny issue.

The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova has voiced concern about the risk posed by fighting around the world heritage site of Timbuktu in northern Mali.

BOT investors hastily return projects to gov’t; Export revenues rise by 23.6 percent in Q1; HCM City seeks solutions for beleaguered firms; Vietnam dollar bonds best in Asia; Chinese farm machinery dominates

Nearly 12,000 businesses stopped operation or got dissolved in the first quarter of the year, the latest report by the Ministry of Planning and Investment show.

VietNamNet Bridge – Although the Government has outlawed the abuse of car horns since July 2010, drivers continue violating the rules.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act into law, that would prevent congressmen and government staffs from insider stock trading based on nonpublic information they collected.

A businessman named Nguyen Duc Luong, who is President and CEO of Truong Linh Housing Development Investment JS Company, used 60 taels of gold ($125,000) to decorate his house in the northern city of Hai Duong.

VietNamNet Bridge - The five-star Grand Plaza Hotel is part of the Grand Plaza shopping mall-hotel complex, investment by Charmvit, a Korean group.

VietNamNet Bridge – Yoko Ishikawa and her husband first visited Hoi An in 2006, but it wasn't until five years later that they decided to settle in the central tourism hub.