Exhibition on daily life in HCM City;  US veteran-poet hopes to heal war wounds with poems;  A guitar players record;  Vietnam culture day opens in Copenhagen; ‘Youth Aspiration’ to mark Youth Union’s anniversary

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced on Monday the launch of a nationwide program for the prevention of breast and cervical cancer.

While enterprises have to struggle hard to get the profit of 10% for their investment deals, small shopkeepers on pavements can earn the profit. The pavements in the central area of Hanoi are considered the “goose that laid the golden eggs”.

Some universities have announced increases in tuition fees for the 2011 academic year. The costs of learning have become too expensive in Vietnam.

External power source had been connected to all the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Kyodo News reported late Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Businesses and experts have proposed that the government should reduce corporate income tax in order to ease the burden on businesses in this difficult period.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Trong Thai, vice office chief of the National Committee for Traffic Safety, spoke to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper about traffic safety and the threat of increasing numbers of road deaths.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Finance has said it would recommend that businesses found to be evading taxes by repeated declaration of losses have their licenses revoked.

VietNamNet Bridge – Following the unexpected success story of ABTel with its Q-Mobile brand, many other enterprises have jumped on the bandwagon and are trying to develop Vietnamese mobile phones.

VietNamNet Bridge – District authorities in HCM City have taken many measures to ensure social welfare after the Government passed Resolution 11 last month to curb inflation and stabilise the economy.

VietNamNet Bridge – Four Vietnamese tourist companies - La Palanche Voyages, Luxury Travel, Vietnam Originale and Cle Voyage - joined in the 2011 Le Monde à Paris (MAP) International Tourism Fair from March 17-20.

A new device is being developed by American engineers to ease pain of blood sugar testing in diabetics, according to foreign media report last week.

Steel prices to continue rising; Ministry urges protections for consumers; Banks ordered to provide public forex services; M&A deals thrive despite market slump; Villages urged to prevent illegal logging

VietNamNet Bridge – Rural towns were never attractive clients in the eyes of commercial banks before. However, everything has changed.

‘Gold’ statue just made of copper; Daughter drops out, gives mother ‘graduation certificate’;  Two arrested for growing marijuana; Not paying debts, man breaks creditor's arm, leg; Man arrested for demolishing 86 tombs

VietNamNet Bridge – The newest production of Ha Noi based Youth Theatre will be presented tonight, March 23, to raise funds for victims of the earthquake in Japan.

VietNamNet Bridge – Black and golden brown hues dominate the lacquer works of veteran painter Ngo Thanh Nhan as he portrays the beauty of natural landscapes and rural women in the highlands.

VietNamNet Bridge – On March 20, the Xa Tac worshiping ceremony was organized in the ancient capital city of Hue to pray for good weather, peace and prosperity for Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Trade barriers, rising production costs and competition from China will make this year a challenging one for Vietnamese exporters to the US market, a senior official said on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Well-off people who pretend to be poor so that they can buy or rent a low-income apartment will have to surrender the dwelling and pay stiff fines if they are caught.

Loud explosions and heavy anti-aircraft gunfire were heard in the Libyan capital city of Tripoli at around 9:00 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Monday as the third round of Western-led airstrikes started.

VietNamNet Bridge – Every afternoon, hundreds of people rush to the field along the National Highway 22 in Hoc Mon district, HCM City, to fly kites.

VietNamNet Bridge – Chairman of Bac Kan Province People's Committee Hoang Ngoc Duong voiced concern over the erosion on the Ba Be Lake banks during an interview with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

Experts have mooted an increase in the compulsory reserve ratio on foreign currency deposits, believing that the solution would help ease the foreign currency speculation and dollarization, thus making the finance market healthier.

Israeli warplanes carried out seven intensive airstrikes on posts belonging to Islamic Hamas movement' s armed wing al-Qassam Brigades, injuring at least 17 people, medics in Gaza said.