VietNamNet Bridge - The fifth biennial Sea Festival 2011 will be held in Nha Trang from June 11-15 with Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago as highlight.

Fruit exports increase 9% per year; Vietnam Airlines plans IPO; Proposal for two airports to service HCM City; Vietnam to repay $4 bln debt in 2011; Asia Pacific leads property market

VietNamNet Bridge – Historical and legal evidences shows indicate Vietnam’s uncontroversial sovereignty of the Hoang Sa Archipelago (Paracel Islands).

VietNamNet Bridge - State Bank of Viet Nam Governor Nguyen Van Giau, in a press briefing on Friday, urged banks to take seriously the 20-per-cent ceiling for credit growth set for this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - When catch sizes started to decrease last year, many fishermen on the southern island of Hon Nghe in the Gulf of Thailand made the switch to fish farming.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Cinema Administration and Cinema Association on March 4 decided to withdraw "Giao Lo Dinh Menh" (Inferno) directed by Vietnamese American Victor Vu from the list of nominees for the Golden Kite Award 2010.

Vietnamese businessmen do not lack hearts or money, but they still rarely consider lending a hand to support Vietnam’s academic art. As the result, Vietnam’s cultural development has to rely on foreign support.

VietNamNet Bridge - Forest areas in Luc Yen District in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai have suffered significant damage due to illegal foraging for the local speciality - bitter bamboo sprouts.

Dell offers new services to business customers;  VinaPhone kicks off music sharing service; VinaCapital invests in mobile service; IBM enhances information management portfolio

To ease power shortage and boost foreign currency supplies, the Foreign Investment Agency has suggested the Government stimulate capital disbursement from FDI projects that have small energy needs, rather than electricity-hungry heavy industries.

Power turbine to start ahead of schedule; Two teenage sisters rescued from brothel; Protected gorillas in village confiscated; Training provided for rural workers; Disease-causing organisms found in Can Tho’s food

The 3D version of "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" will be released on Feb. 10,  2012, according to Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox.

Ministry releases table of new electrical rates; Farmers abandon tra breeding due to high costs; Paper industry expands capacity;  Banks ordered to prioritise lending for industry, farms; Agricultural exports rise 50%

VietNamNet Bridge - Public universities are stepping up efforts to market themselves to high-school students many of whom will take national admission tests in July.

VietNamNet Bridge - Since the beginning of March, businesses have been stockpiling one million tons of rice at the behest of the Vietnam Food Association (VFF), at a minimum price of VND5,000 per kilogram. 

Formula distributors and producers have announced 20 percent price increases for nearly all kinds of their products. Meanwhile, experts believe that a three or five percent price increase would be enough to bring substantial profit to them.

VietNamNet Bridge - Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai told a workshop in Hanoi on March 4 that the annual budget for climate change had reached trillions of Vietnamese dong (hundreds of millions of USD).

The private economic sector should be the leading economic sector in the economic development. The State should consider the private economic sector an important asset.

VietNamNet Bridge – The law on economizing energy and using energy effectively took effect in the beginning of 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – The story about a girl in Hue who was abandoned at birth and lived as a street child moved the hearts of millions of audience members of the national television station (VTV), but there is a different truth.

Dutch wins championship at PWA windsurfing tournament; Health prevents Pele from visiting Vietnam; First open Binh Duong int’l women cycling tournament to start soon  

Hike in medicine prices causes anxiety; Car hit two police to death; Ca pass clogged with traffic accident for 4 hours; Vietnam’s kidnapped sailors made it home; Breast implant at beauty salon kills woman   

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi’s Central Tropical Hospital said it has treated 848 cases of rubella, or German measles, since mid-January and the number is rising every day.

A federal grand jury in the U. S. state Arizona has indicted accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner on 49 counts in the January rampage that gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others and left six dead.

VietNamNet Bridge – Carrying babies on boats to chase tourist boats to beg for money has become a problem for tourists in Ha Long Bay (Quang Ninh province).