VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam is aiming to improve the quality of its forest and their productivity during the next five years.

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign-invested projects have disbursed US$420 million so far this month, a year-on-year increase of 5 per cent, the Ministry of Planning and Investment's Foreign Investment Agency said.

Auditors have uncovered VND13.774 trillion (US$706 million) in financial wrongdoings at state organizations in 132 audits in 2010, according to the State Audit Office of Vietnam which also said it would scrutinize Vinashin and EVN this year.

A lot of banks failed to implement their plan to list shares on the bourse in 2010 due to the gloomy stock market. However, they believe that they will succeed with the new plans in 2011.

Steel producers foresee that 2011 will be a very difficult year for them especially because they have to pay high interest rates for loans, and face electricity cuts.

With overly high lending interest rates at 18-20 percent per annum, real estate developers have turned their back on the market.

Associate Professor Dr of Science Vu Dinh Hoa has been well known in Vietnam as the first student who won the silver medal at the mathematics Olympiad in 1974.

Several measures have been applied to ease the overloading of airports during Tet . However, passengers have been warned that the overloading will be unavoidable.

HCM City’s residents, travel firms and local authorities all have agreed that it is necessary to develop waterway tourism. However, they still do not know what and how to develop.

Land-related corruption has become widespread and Vietnamese people are familiar with it like with floods after downpours in Hanoi, said director of the Center for Public Research and Development Dang Ngoc Dinh.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 2011 national tourism year will focus on promoting tourism in the south central coast region, it was announced at a press conference held in Ha Noi yesterday, Jan 25.

Now when wild peach trees are becoming scarce and their prices are escalating, hunting for ornamental peach has become a hard work. VietNamNet reports.

VietNamNet Bridge – Cyclists from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand will take part in a four-day Viet Nam cycling race to Cambodia to mark the latter's New Year Festival in April.

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VietNamNet Bridge – A baby girl surprised her neighbors in Tam Lanh commune, Phu Ninh district, the central province of Quang Nam by uttering he first words at two months old.

VietNamNet Bridge – The lack of investment and land shortages in different areas have stymied HCM City's plans to build and upgrade green parks, officials say.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the first three weeks of this year, 26 people tested positive for A/H1N1 influenza, according to the Ministry of Health's Preventive Health Department.

VietNamNet Bridge – Greater gender equality, especially among National Assembly deputies, will be promoted at all political levels in the future.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Centre for Protection of Labour's Health and Working Environment under the Department of Health this year will conduct tighter inspections of labour safety and hygiene as well as health care for company workers . . .

VietNamNet Bridge – Monthly allowances for the elderly will be increased beginning in March, according to a Government decision.

Global financial stability was still not assured and significant policy challenges remained to be addressed even nearly four years after the onset of the severe financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign ministers from ASEAN member countries and China gathered in China's capital of Kunming yesterday, Jan 25, to discuss measures to expand relations in various fields.

VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 100 of 197 local farmers in HCM City's Can Gio District received their first compensation payout from Vedan Viet Nam early this week for losses caused by the firm's polluting Thi Vai River.

VietNamNet Bridge – Inspectors from the Viet Nam Environment Administration have found that many industrial parks in southern Binh Duong Province have been discharging untreated waste water into the environment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vetinarians looking into the death of a rare Javan rhinoceros in Cat Tien National Park have said it died from gun shot wounds.