VietNamNet Bridge - Stock market IT security remains a problem as the websites of securities firms continue to be hacked and fraudulent transactions occur, according to experts.

Mobifone issues new policy on subscribers; Satellite television launches PC channel; VinaPhone records high growth 

Vietnamese shrimps’ success and challenges; Vietnam-India trade turnover reaches nearly US$2.6 billion; Food, beverage sector expands; Seafood processors waste energy, says study; Investors take to VN property  

Research has shown that an artificial pancreas could prevent the potentially fatal complications that can affect diabetic mothers-to-be, according to BBC reports.

A lot of businesses have incurred big losses due to the dong/dollar exchange rate fluctuations.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 1000 singers from Asian countries will participate in the first international choir competition in the ancient town of Hoi An from March 16-20.

VietNamNet Bridge – Students from the smallest ethnic minority groups at all education levels will be exempted from education fees beginning in March this year following a recently issued Government decree.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ha Noi Market Watch has warned customers city-wide about substandard foods which have increasingly been uncovered prior to Tet (Lunar New Year).

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) Vice Chair Nguyen Lan Trung on January 29 talked to VietNamNet about the meeting between the VFF, the National Coaching Council and the national football squad’s coach Henrique Calisto on January 27.

VietNamNet Bridge - Businesspeople are often interested in unique and strange tours with high-quality services as they don’t have much time on relaxing.

VietNamNet Bridge - As they catch the last bus home for the Tet holidays, migrant labourers like Huan, a porter at Ha Noi's Long Bien Market, dream of sitting around at the family dinner on New Year's Eve.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Prime Minister has requested cabinet members and localities intensify management over the market to ensure prices are stable, especially during the traditional New Year (Tet) festival.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam borrowed an additional $1 billion in 2010, raising its total foreign debt to $29 billion, according to the Ministry of Finance.

VietNamNet Bridge - District and commune leaders will be held responsible if firecrackers and flaming sky lanterns are detected in their localities during Tet.

About 800 overseas Vietnamese from different countries and territories yesterday gathered at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel to join the 2011 Homeland Spring programme to welcome the traditional lunar New Year festival, the Year of the Cat.

VietNamNet Bridge – The lotus is honored by artisans at the Spring Flower and Drinking for Tet Festival and the Exhibition to collect people’s opinion about national flower, national costumes and national wine in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Workers are trying their best to decorate Nguyen Hue Road and turn it into the flower street.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of people in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi began visiting the annual spring flower festival that opened Wednesday.

Lunar New Year (Tet holiday) is the chance for rich people to show their wealth through displaying unusual things at home. Besides unique ornamental trees and ornamental fish, some people buy special ceramic items to display.

The HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza) has said it will compel all those factories emitting smoke at industrial parks (IP) and export processing zones (EPZ) to build treatment facilities by the year-end.

VietNamNet Bridge - The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Belgium has removed Vietnamese tra fish from the WWF’s red guidebook in 2010-2011, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) said on January 29. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Joining associations will help wood processing plants effectively address current impediments derived from material and labour scarcity.

VietNamNet Bridge – The deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Directorate of Forestry, Ha Cong Tuan, spoke to Dai Doan Ket (Great Unity) newspaper about illegal logging activities.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam plans to test the Wolbachia bacterium's effectiveness in eradicating mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus.

VietNamNet Bridge – The special garden of a veteran surprised many people. In a small alley on Au Co Road, Tay Ho District, Hanoi, hundreds of bonsais are displayed.