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VietNamNet Bridge – The nets used to catch the turtle were bought from the regular market so the turtle easily broke the nets to slip away.

South Korean actor Hyun Bin and actress Song Hye-kyo officially announced that they had broken up in January, their agencies said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – New regulations relating to gold management are being considered by the State bank of Vietnam, including the possible narrowing of the bar gold market. Gold companies now have to think about their business in the future.

The visit to Vietnam by Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo Mendez will bring the two countries’ ties to a new height to meet their people’s aspiration, the Vietnamese state leader has said.

VietNamNet Bridge – There is a wave of foreign investors hunting for Vietnamese securities companies. Analysts believe that now is the right time to buy securities companies because the companies are cheap.

VietNamNet Bridge – The wholesale market of Phu Hau opens from 1-6 am to supply goods for markets in the central city of Hue and neighboring districts. Most of workers at the market are women.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam continues to accrue accolades for its hotels as North America magazine Travel + Leisure has named three to its list of ‘World’s Best Hotel Values’ in the March 2011 issue.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Saigon College of Art Culture and Tourism haS been found as applying so many odd regulations that a lot of lecturers have quit the school, thus making students suffer.

VietNamNet Bridge – Producers of ‘ghost money' used in the burning of votive offerings will not be allowed to use the content, image, patterns and colours of real Vietnamese and foreign currencies

VietNamNet Bridge - Supply is declining since water levels are dwindling due to a drought while demand will rise in the ongoing dry season.

VietNamNet Bridge – These gemstone blocks are the most unique in Vietnam and their prices are estimated at thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of US dollars.

VietNamNet Bridge – The latest fashion designs for the Spring-Summer 2011 were introduced at the Vietnam Designers House in HCM City on March 3. Below are some of the designs.

VietNamNet Bridge - The hotel business are set to be booming this year as many new hotels will make debut, while existing ones build more rooms to meet up the surging demand. 

iven the information that the State Bank of Vietnam will soon release new regulations on restricting the subjects who can borrow foreign currencies, commercial banks believe that the dollar deposit interest rates may go down a little in a few days.

"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson said she is taking a rest from her courses at Brown University to concentrate on her film career, according to a message she posted on her website.

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Van Lang said that if there is a better environment, technological enterprises can serve as the foundation and the driving force for the service sector to develop.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mobile malls selling goods at normal prices and stable property taxes on houses rented by workers are among several measures that HCM City has taken to help the latter deal with inflationary conditions.

U.S. stocks rebounded on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average achieving three-digit gains as oil prices eased from its fresh multi-year high, soothing concerns that surging oil could hurt economic recovery.

Google on Tuesday released a new stable version of its Chrome web browser, which the company said is speedier, simpler and safer.

BP Chief Executive Robert Dudley on Tuesday apologized his company's oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico and urged the world oil industry to take actions to avert similar devastating deepwater disasters.

VietNamNet Bridge – About 175 athletes from all over Viet Nam will descend on the Central Highland province of Dac Nong on March 27 for the 52nd National Half Marathon Races, an organising committee spokesperson said yesterday.

International expert to train HCM City's badminton coaches; Up to 1,000 martial artists take part in youth taekwondo champs; Long An take top prize at volleyball championships

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi T&T table tennis club have strengthened their squad by signing two top players, Tran Tuan Quynh and Phan Huy Hoang from Ha Noi, on five-year contracts, team coach Vu Manh Cuong said yesterday, March 8.

VietNamNet Bridge – Song Hong Joint Stock Corporation yesterday began work on a VND503 billion (US$25 million) scheme to improve drainage – and the environment – in channels opening into the To Lich, Hoang Liet, Lu and Set rivers