The National Programme for Energy Efficiency and Conservation will need around VND1 trillion (US$48 million) to save between five and eight per cent of the nation's total energy consumption by 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – It is a chilly winter morning and darkness covers everything. Drops of rain can be heard falling from the roof. While most people are still curled up in warm blankets, three youths rush to the Saturday market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh will make a working visit to the US from February 7-18.

“Exhausted liquidity”, “faint confidence” are the true words to describe the current situation of the stock market.

A series of complicated legal disputes involving Shiseido Cosmetics Vietnam, its local partner Thuy Loc Company Ltd and some investors in their retail network has resulted in the shutdown of 40 retail outlets, leaving 200 employees without jobs.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's largest internet security firm BKAV today said police had seized the perpetrator who hacked into its website, paralysing it since last Friday.

 $4 million project helps diagnose TB; Gratis language classes at city pagoda; Ha Noi okays road upgrade, expansion; HCM City's ageing bridges ‘a threat'

The White House said on Monday that President Barack Obama has ordered the freezing of Iran's property under U.S. jurisdiction, including that of the country's central bank, as the U.S. and its allies are pressing hard over

US Ex-Im Bank to prioritize credit for Vietnamese SMEs; Stocks gain on improved market value; Bad debts hit record high; Poor Tet sales leave firms with stockpiles; Shrimp exporters secured of material

Small and medium carriers in Hanoi complain that the demand is too low in the first month of the Lunar New Year in comparison with the previous years, though it is now the festival season.

The death toll from the maganitude 6. 7 earthquake that jolted the central Philippine province of Negros Oriental on Monday rose to 52, local officials said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is listed amongst the top ten countries with the worst air pollution in the world, according to the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) released during this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam table tennis players were ousted from the Southeast Asian zone qualifiers for the London Olympic after losing to Singaporean rivals in the quarter-finals in Thailand yesterday, Feb 6.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam would take tough measures against violators of food safety law, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said

Some commercial banks which are holding big amounts of gold, have proposed to allow them to export gold in order to improve the liquidity.

VietNamNet Bridge – A large number of dead fish have washed up with rubbish in the famed Ho Xuan Huong Lake of Da Lat’s tourist hotspot in the central highlands’ province, Lam Dong.

VietNamNet Bridge – President Truong Tan Sang on Feb. 5 received foreign poets who are in Vietnam to attend the first Asia-Pacific Poetry Festival.

VietNamNet Bridge – The movie Lost in Paradise by director Vu Ngoc Dang will be screened at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival which will take place from February 9-19.

VietNamNet Bridge – About 40,000 households in the southwestern area of Ha Noi are expected to regain their water supply again today after a water pipe from the Da River in northern Hoa Binh Province broke,

VietNamNet Bridge – Police in the central coastal province of Phu Yen have unearthed a plot led by an allegedly reactionary political organisation.

He is called the “fungus doctor” because he remembers exactly the appearance, characteristics and uses of every fungus species.

A lot of parents now need someone to help them pick up children from schools, because the changes in the working time do not allow them to do that themselves. The demand has brought new job opportunities to university students.

The TLC West Lake Joint Stock Company has officially opened the Ho Tay (West Lake) electric car tourism route for visitors to discover the history, culture and beauty of the 18-km long lake.

Vietnam’s top chess player, Le Quang Liem (Elo 2,714) has left for the 2012 Aeroflot Open Chess Tournament in Russia.

Vietnam and Thailand have agreed to accelerate the implementation of their reached agreements and bring two-way trade to more than US$7 billion in 2012.