VietNamNet Bridge - Increases in the consumer price index cooled in January in two of Viet Nam's biggest cities.

Experts believe that the progress in farm produce exports in 2010 will continue in 2011, especially when the world market is showing good signs for seafood, coffee and rubber products.

Vietnam will surely surmount all challenges that may arise to make bigger accomplishments on the path to becoming a modern industrialised country by 2020 as planned, said President Nguyen Minh Triet.  

To make IT and communication one of the three breakthroughs in the socio-economic development in the next 5-10 years, the education system needs to be reformed the guests of VietNamNet’s Vietnam Economic Forum said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Sales of automobiles manufactured or assembled in Vietnam fell 6 percent last year to 112,224 units, the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association said.

The boy band that was nominated for Grammy and whose albums were the best sellers in the last two decades will perform in Vietnam for the first time this March.  

Former Second Division footballer Tran Thanh Truong, who was struck by lightning while playing a match in 2008 and has become partially paralyzed, will get a compensation of just VND69 million (US$3,450), authorities announced yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - A Javan rhinoceros that was found dead in the Cat Tien National Park last April may have died of infection after being shot in its leg, the World Wildlife Fund said Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoians have begun to purchasing votive paper products to burn for the Kitchen God Festival (ong Tao) on lunar December 23, which will fall on January 26.

VietNamNet Bridge - “The 11th National Party Congress has successfully completed all programmes as planned,” said newly-elected Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in his closing speech on January 19.

VietNamNet Bridge - The 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has received warm applause from international experts and reporters over the past ten days.

Once again, the people who live near Hanoi’s oldest bridge – Long Bien became the center of a multinational art project.

The 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) adopted its Resolution at the closing session on January 19.

The Singaporean Football Federation Chair Zainudin Nordin proposed that Southeast Asian countries co-host the World Cup 2030 but the Vietnam Football Federation’s Secretary General Tran Quoc Tuan says that Vietnam cannot co-host the World Cup.

In a half hour, the newly-elected Party Secretary General of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong answered over ten questions from six local and foreign journalists at the international press conference

Vietnamese farmers are now accustomed with the Internet and begin selling their farm produce online.

The project on processing and exporting puffer, in which Vietnamese farmers and enterprises once put high hopes, may fail completely since the foreign partner suddenly stopped importing.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Policy makers and experts are applying measures to reduce the influence of the dollar on the national economy.

Both the mobile virtual network operators Dong Duong Telecom and VTC still cannot officially provide services, even though they received operation licenses more than one year ago.

Existing for the last 20 years, non-state universities don’t look much different than they did when they first opened in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Tien Minh opened his new year with a victory in the first round of the Proton Malaysia Open Super Series in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, Jan 19.

VietNamNet Bridge – Administrative hassles have hampered the progress of a social housing programme to provide accommodation to low-income earners in HCM City, industry insiders say.

VietNamNet Bridge – The relations between businesses and the media must be improved through frequent dialogues, delegates said at a media relations conference in HCM City yesterday, Jan 19.

A school police officer on Wednesday was shot and wounded on the campus of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, local media reported.

A week after storms devastated part of Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil, the death count reached 742, local authorities said Wednesday.