How to handle with the debts incurred by Ficombank, TinNghia Bank and SCB is the question that has been raised after the information about the merging of the three banks was released.

The Ha Noi People’s Council is set to maintain the city’s economic growth of 10-10.5 per cent for the year ahead.

Several Vietnamese enterprises are expanding into foreign countries, including Africa, Middle East and Latin American, because the domestic market has become saturated.

The Ha Noi Declaration on ASEAN Sustainable Connectivity on minerals was adopted at the end of the third ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Minerals, which opened in the capital city yesterday.

Twenty-four tennis players, including eight women, seeded from 9th to 16th in the national ratings, are competing in the VFM Cup tournament that opened in Danang on December 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – Half of 450 abattoirs inspected by health authorities recently have been declared below the required standard for meat hygiene.

Tens of parents have spent hundreds of millions of dong a year to bring their children to a school advertised as international school. However, they have been exceedingly astonished that the school is just a Vietnamese people founded school.

VietNamNet Bridge – The most important match of the year – the Super Cup Vietnam – will be held on December 17, at the stadium of Vinh City, Nghe An province.

A lot of new regulations have been issued with an aim to keep a tighter control over the imports-exports and goods circulation. However, it is the new regulations which have caused big losses to businesses.

Apple on Thursday released iTunes Rewind 2011 and App Store Rewind 2011, its annual lists of top selling music, TV shows, movies and apps for the year.

VietNamNet Bridge – They bike, run, climb and boat. They are ex-hausted, but all of them feel happy after an adventure tour in the Van Long Nature Reserve in Ninh Bình Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – The limits imposed on taxi growth in HCM City have apparently backfired, with taxis from other localities plying their trade here to meet burgeoning demand.

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has said it is considering dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean as it is running out of space to store the radioactive waste.

VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-five years after Vietnam implemented the open-door policy, many people cannot forget memory about the so-called “Thoi bao cap”, when they bought everything not by money, but coupons.

VietNamNet Bridge - The process of diplomatic and economic-trade relation normalizations between the U.S and Vietnam has been witnessing the participation of many people in different circumstances and through different ways.

Property projects grind to a halt; Puny service charges leaves port short; Carlsberg buys out popular Hue brewer; Weak logistics sector retards development; Delta needs to rethink its exports; Serviced apartment market looks bright

VietNamNet Bridge – The ancient royal city of Hue will host the 2012 National Marathon Championship on March 26.

The Family Festival Kermesse 2011; Artist Talk with Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen; Singing in the Childhood World; Exhibition “1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8″; Custom Made – Festive Craft Fair; Film Screening in Dec at IDECAF; Photography Exhibition with Yan Lerval

Two people were dead after a shooting Thursday at the Blacksburg, VA. campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). The police tend to believe the shooter has died.

After a tense meeting, the Hanoi People’s Council on December 8, approved Hanoi authorities’ proposal to increase the car registration fee to 20 percent and the license-number fee by ten times, to VND20 million around ($1,000).

Some sports officials on December 7, received text messages from an unknown number which said that the Vietnam Football Federation’s (VFF) Chairman and Secretary General had agreed to resign at the guidance of their superior.

At least 20 patients suffocated to death and about 20 others still trapped in a massive fire that broke out Friday morning at a major hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.

VietNamNet Bridge – Training courses offered by pedagogy universities to existing primary-school teachers have shown good results, with improved quality of teaching and management, according to an education official.

VietNamNet Bridge - The HCM City Police Department’s newly-issued ban of traffic policemen from carrying over VND100,000 (US$4.7) while on duty has stirred up a controversy.

Hanoi to host night of Korean opera; Int’l workshop on culture management; Comic drawing art workshop in town; Ha to have debut live concert; Photo contest highlights beauty of Vietnam contemporary architecture