Firms offer flood experience tours; Nha Trang to welcome charter flights; Farmers turn to music by night; Malaysia ship to make regular visits

A group of commercial banks, the State Bank of Vietnam and the Saigon Jewelry Company (SJC) have sat together to discuss the plan to set up a 20-ton gold fund to stabilize the gold market.

Company director on tax fraud counts; Village resents building restrictions; Minister promises job to Toyota whistle-blower; Heroin traffickers sentenced to death

A lot of contractors complain that they cannot get payment from project investors, though the construction was completed several years ago. However, they have to “sit down under an abuse” because they want to be free from hardship.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s official visits to the Netherlands, Uzbekistan and Ukraine from Sept. 27 to Oct. 6 have created a strong momentum for fostering cooperation between Vietnam and the three countries,

VietNamNet Bridge – Teenager Ho Huynh Dan Mach will lead the national squad during the International Tennis Federation (ITF)'s Viet Nam International Junior Championships Prudential Cup in southern Bac Lieu Province from tomorrow,

U.S. stocks ended higher for the third straight day on Thursday, with the Dow back to 11,000 plus after decent jobs data and stronger-than-expected retail sales.

VietNamNet Bridge – More criminal apprehension groups will be set up to deal with thieving in Ha Noi, Nguyen Duc Nhanh, director of the city's Police Department, said at a meeting on security control yesterday, Oct 6.

VietNamNet Bridge – Australia made a come back to overcome Viet Nam 4-3 in the opening game of the Asian Football Confederation Women's Under-19 Championship in HCM City.

Lack of sleep is strongly linked to post-natal depression for new mothers, according to an Australian study revealed on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The third meeting of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) opened in Hanoi on October 6.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has decided to cut out some parts from the curriculums for grammar schools. However, students complain that their pressure has not been eased.

While the story about developing Vietnamese brand tablet PCs seems to fall into oblivion, HiPT Mobile has unexpectedly stated that its first tablet PC will hit the market in November 2011.

Whether to allow to build Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A hydropower plants on the Dong Nai River has, once again, become a hot topic when one more environment organization has declared its support for the construction.

Two Vietnamese Companies – Interbrand JSC and Inter Brand Media Co.. Ltd have become the defendants in a lawsuit relating to the intellectual property infringement, in which the plaintiff is a British company.

VietNamNet Bridge – Salary increases this year are much lower than inflation rates, a survey by Mercer, the leading global provider of human resource services and its associate, Talentnet Corporation, has found.

Looking over the economy, not only the petrol market but also many other fields of business lack transparence, for example electricity, securities, etc. Can the Ministry of Finance deal with them like it does with the petrol sector?

Steven Paul Jobs, Apple's co-founder and longtime CEO, and Silicon Valley legend, died at the age of 56 on Wednesday after seven years of fight with cancer.

VietNamNet Bridge – On National Highway 8A, around 500m from Duc Tho town in the central province of Ha Tinh, there are many people selling wild birds. Behind them are harvested fields with bird nets.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese delegation and the South African Department of Environmental Affairs signed an agreement on protecting rhinos on September 28.

VietNamNet Bridge – After the bell signals the lecture time, Buddhist students at the Vietnam Buddhism Institute in Soc Son district, Hanoi, hurriedly go to the lecture hall with books and laptops.

Dissolved foreign-invested enterprises are hurting local banking institutions.

Libya's fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi Thursday said in an audio message that conditions in the North African country are "unbearable now," calling on the Libyans to demonstrate in their millions, according to the Syria-based Arrai television.

The Greek government approved on Thursday plans for oil exploration and drilling in western Greece that could raise up to 25 billion euros (33.57 billion U.S. dollars) in revenues in the next two decades.

The 5,000m world champion Mo Farah of Britain and 800m world champion Mariya Savinova of Russia was named European male and female athlete of the year respectively on Wednesday.