VietNamNet Bridge - Private investors are keen to jump onto the public-private partnership investment bandwagon, but local authorities are failing to do their part.

VietNamNet Bridge – Today the Governor of the State Bank of Viet Nam, Nguyen Van Giau and the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Haruhiko Kuroda, signed a US$1.38 billion financial assistance deal set . . .

Apple Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has updated its iMac all-in-one desktop, adding Intel's next generation quad-core processors, Thunderbolt data ports and a new HD camera.

The land plots in the Can Gio District in the suburbs of HCM City are being hunted by investors, who plan to make a “double investment”. 

Fast-growing Asian economies can not afford to fall into the middle income trap when seeking to move from resource-driven growth that is dependent on cheap labor and capital to growth based on high productivity and innovation,

Children who regularly have meals with their families tend to enjoy better health and have a considerably lower risk of obesity, an article in Monday's issue of Pediatrics said.

Intel Corp. on Wednesday announced that it will mass-manufacture chips using new transistors featuring a three-dimensional (3-D) structure, calling it a technical breakthrough in microprocessors.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 90 dishes used by the Nguyen Dynasty, the last feudal dynasty in Vietnam, were introduced at the Ta Vu house inside the Hue royal citadel from April 28 to May 3.

Setting up an enterprise in Vietnam has been giving business people headaches for years, gobbling up mounds of paper and gallons of ink.

The world's water consumption will increase by 40 percent over the next two decades and efforts to meet this demand must increase radically, the secretary-general of the 5th World Water Forum said here on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Transport Development Consultative Centre director Le Thu Huyen discussed the direction of transportation policy with the newspaper Khoa hoc & Doi song (Science & Life).

As traditional Chinese medicine (known as TCM in Europe) becomes increasingly popular worldwide and has gradually been regarded as a useful component to Western medical treatments, Denmark is no stranger to such trends.

Cambodian and Thai military commanders on Wednesday agreed to a ceasefire again, Lt Gen Chhum Socheat, the spokesman for Cambodian Ministry of Defense, said Wednesday.

Chrysler Group LLC announced Tuesday that its U.S. sales jumped 22 percent in April, which is its best April sale since 2008, as truck and car sales each notched double-digit increases.

Design key to lifting garment exports; Supermarkets baulk at high supplier prices; Indian investors keen on Vietnam; Cement consumption continues to grow; Vietravel, Cambodian airline jointly offer budget tour

The Government subsidy program aims to encourage local enterprises to boost production of high-quality Vietnamese goods. However, inadequacies in affording tax incentives have hindered production of domestically made goods.

In the past, foreign invested and private run enterprises always complained that they had fewer opportunities than state-owned enterprises to access business premises, however, the situation has become quite different.

VietNamNet Bridge – Italian painter Richard San Marzano and a painting collector have launched a prize for self-portraits by Vietnamese artists worth VND100 million ($5,000).

Vietnamese rockers win favour at ASEAN fest; Ambassador meets UNESCO and Francophonie leaders; Dep Fashion Show wins Asian fashion award; Hanoi life shown in exhibition at Versailles

Olympic 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop has said he would quit the 1,500m event if he could not break the 3 minutes 30 seconds barrier this season.

VietNamNet Bridge – The local authorities in southern Binh Phuoc Province launched inspections to prevent petrol station operators speculating in fuel, following shortages over the long weekend.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tourists and local people enjoyed a special unicorn and dragon dance show on the street of the ancient capital city of Hue on May 1.

VietNamNet Bridge - Tourism centers across of the country such as Danang, Quang Ninh, Binh Thuan and Dalat have been flooded with tourists on Reunification Day and International Labor Day holidays.

‘Russian Night’ featuring masterpieces by Piotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov and Modest Mussorgsky under the baton of two conductors Tran Nhat Minh and Nguyen Anh Son will take place at HCMC Opera House on Saturday.

VietNamNet Bridge - The UNESCO Representative in Vietnam on April 29 presented the title of World Biosphere Reserve to the Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve in the central province of Nghe An.