Vietnam’s exports sees impressive growth rate because it set low targets

Twelve universities in the inner city of Hanoi have been “ordered” to relocate to new places. This means that the schools will leave attractively located land plots , considered the “open-cast gold mines”.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Mobile phone subscribers are not only disturbed by advertisement SMSs, but also when a they are woken up at night just because service providers inform them that the money left in their accounts is 28,000 dong.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new year dawns, once again raising hope in people throughout the world – and particularly in Viet Nam in this Year of the Cat.

VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in HCM City and neighbouring Binh Duong Province have continued urgent measures to prevent criminals from scattering nails along highways as a means of charging exorbitant fees to repair flat tyres.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foot-and-mouth disease reappeared in 17 cities and provinces nationwide after being contained for three weeks, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite a spectacular loss against Ivan Cheparinov of Bulgaria in the penultimate round yesterday evening, Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem won the Russian International Chess Festival Aeroflot Open in Moscow

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 50 windsurfers from 12 countries will take part in the 12th Fun Cup windsurfing competition tomorrow at Mui Ne in the central coastal province of Binh Thuan.

Ski resort in Jilin province offers huge crowd-free slopes, breathtaking scenery and natural snow, Alexis Hooi finds.

Vietnam’s development definitely depends much on Vietnamese intellectuals. Tuoi tre Tan Mao magazine published Professor Ngo Bao Chau’s reflection on this subject, as well as the views of other researchers/scholars and young people.

Delta seafood firm processes for export; Quality to lift sales of dragon fruit; Profits from coffee exports increase by 13%; Fuel wholesale traders to get more money; Regulations aim to boost stock liquidity

The cholera death toll in Haiti rose to 4,549, Haitian Health authorities said on Wednesday.

The U.S. Federal Reserve expressed slightly more optimistic expectation of the U.S. economy, saying the recovery "was on a firmer footing", but high unemployment remains a key challenge of the country.

Despite calls from Egypt's ruling supreme council of the armed forces to end strikes and demonstrations that are damaging the efforts for economic recovery, strikes continued Wednesday in some parts of the country,

Though all state owned economic groups complain that selling at the prices below the production costs has made them incur heavy losses, it turns out they are in fact profitable.

Beijing Municipal Government Wednesday issued new rules limiting the number of homes each family can buy as the government steps up efforts to cool the property market.

Arsenal come from 1-0 down to defeat Barcelona 2-1 at Emirates in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League last 16 round encounter on Wednesday.

Declaring love to their girlfriends with thousands of roses or kissing and cuddling right on teeming streets -pictures of such scenes can be seen on many Chinese websites. Educators worry that such behavior has been imported to Vietnam.  

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong announced to retire from professional cycling on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked relevant agencies to rapidly complete and publish the latest climate change and rising sea level scenarios for likely affected localities.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has asked the Ministry of Education and Training to fully implement new tasks for this year, especially the second semester of the 2010-2011 academic year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Film studios are working on a raft of new projects, including comedy, action, and horror films, that are slated for release this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 500 performers will parade through HCM City's District 5 tonight to celebrate the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ten journalists from six ASEAN countries won prizes at Siemens' inaugural Green Technology Journalism Awards gala in Singapore yesterday, Feb 16.

VietNamNet Bridge – People's procuracies should be involved in preparing law suits for civil court trials to make them fairer and objective, the Chairwoman of the NA Committee of Judiciary, Le Thi Thu Ba, said here yesterday, Feb 16.