VietNamNet Bridge - The Construction Ministry has proposed an increase in housing subsidies as a part of employee wages with an aim to help them resolve difficulties in accessing cheap accommodation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Joe Jackson, 82, the father of the King of Pop Michael Jackson, arrived in Vietnam February 11 to attend the ground-breaking ceremony of a five-star hotel project in the southern province of Long An.

VietNamNet Bridge - Physical education at all levels in Vietnam has been notorious for cultivating in students a hatred for sports with its rigid grading system, joyless drill and limited offerings.

Shoemakers build on success; In-bound tourists up 20 percent during Tet; Sales boom in imported electronics; Portfolio investors likely to return; Tuna exports keep growing

VietNamNet Bridge - Vo Hong Quan, a vocal music student at the Virty-sur-Seine Music College, was crowned Miss Spring 2011 at a beauty contest for Vietnamese students in France on February 12

VietNamNet Bridge - The State Capital Investment Corp (SCIC) is looking to divest 281 enterprises and to sell the entire State stake in 170 local enterprises, General Director Lai Van Dao told a recent meeting.

With quality improvement, Vietnam’s exports of dragon fruit have increased dramatically. Meanwhile, rambutan is prepared to re-enter the US after the lifting of the ban on the Vietnamese fruit, expected to take place this month.

VietNamNet Bridge - A Wednesday article by Live Science magazine reporting that Vietnam recorded unusually high numbers of shark attacks in 2010 is unreliable, said a local expert.

Local food traders at a meeting in HCMC on Thursday reached a consensus that there should be no rush to export rice in the first few months of the year to ensure maximum benefits for the country.

Thousands of people are flocking to Vietnam’s first university – Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) in the early of the lunar year to pray for an auspicious year. Many of them scatter small change everywhere, a kind of “pollution” at this solemn place.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thi Cam villagers in Tu Liem district, Hanoi on the 8th day of the lunar year (February 10) met at the yard of the village temple in the rice cooking festival.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Justice Ha Hung Cuong told a HCM City-based newspaper that the time is ripe to amend the Constitution and under the principle of jurisdiction, the Constitution must be written in a different way.

VietNamNet Bridge – The sixth day of the lunar year (February 8) is considered a good day for opening shops to begin a new year of business. This was the day for unicorn dance troupes in HCM City to demonstrate their skill to bring lucks for shops.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has a bountiful variety of fruits but has yet to adopt modern technological methods to cultivate fruits for export.

Over half of listed companies on the nation's stock exchanges have released their financial statements for last year, and over a dozen firms on the HCM City Stock Exchange reported losses in the fourth quarter.

Outbreak of scarlet fever and measles in North Vietnam; Man nabbed for immigrating people to Hong Kong; Woman gives birth on taxi; Truck overturns killing four; 35 passengers were rescued in Phu Yen bus crash     

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s kitesurfing team, the KINN team will head off by bus on Friday to compete at Pranburi, Thailand for round four of the Kiteboard Tour Asia (KTA) championships.

VietNamNet Bridge – Gau Tao festival is the most important traditional festival of Mong ethnic people in Pha Long in the northern mountain province of Lao Cai.

SCIC to divest 281 firms; Deposit interest rates to decline; New power plants to generate 2,198 MW; Gold mining to start in border province; Diageo buys into local distiller; HaNoi sets sights high for e-customs

VietNamNet Bridge - A group of Vietnamese, French and German scientists announced their discovery of a new species of stream snake in Vietnam, named Opisthotropis cucae.

Confidence and outlook among European businesses in Vietnam has increased given good indicators for Vietnam’s economy in 2011, the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) said on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Artisan Tran Huu Nhon is known as a gifted goldsmith and the one who holds the secrets of the jewelry making technique called “dau”.

Tickets for Backstreet Boys Concert Tour “This is Us” in Vietnam will be available officially from February 12 with prices ranging from VND500,000 (US$25) to VND2 million, according to the tour’s organizer Water Buffalo Productions.

Professor David Dapice, a senior economist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, talks with VietNamNet about economic reforms in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – A unique competition for cats in Vietnam took place in late January 2011 in Chuong My district, Hanoi to honor the cat that can kill the largest number of rats, the enemy of crops.