VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City realty sector received most foreign direct investment (FDI) channeled in the city last year.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked the Transport Ministry not to approve a plan by Vietnam Airlines to establish an aviation joint stock company serving businesspeople.

AVG, the holder of the broadcasting rights of the top professional football league in Vietnam – the V-League – has not reached agreements with other broadcasters to share the event copyright.

After the success of “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps”, Shia LaBeouf, the leading actor in the blockbuster “Transformers”, will cooperate with famous director Oliver Stone in a new movie about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968.

VietNamNet Bridge – The competition in the banking sector has become fiercer than ever, as banks have been rushing to increase their chartered capital. Does it mean that there will be no more room for small banks?

VietNamNet Bridge - Ever since the Duong Lam Village was listed as “ancient” and thus subject to preservation, locals have been complaining they cannot renovate houses nor construct tall buildings.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly Standing Committee on January 6 decided to organize the election to the 13th National Assembly and People’s Councils on Sunday, May 22.

Though Vietnamese private firms are slightly less optimistic about business outlook in 2011, 62 percent compared to 72 percent a year ago, the country still ranked 16th in business optimism in a recent survey over 39 economies worldwide.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese foreign spokeswoman told the press Thursday that Vietnam always creates favorable conditions for foreign diplomats to work in Vietnam in line with international law.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the age when an inch of land is worth as much as an inch of gold, cemeteries are also used to serve the living.

VietNamNet Bridge – Police of the northern port city of Hai Phong \have arrested a man who confessed to kill and dismember a woman whose body was found on January 7.

As the lunar New Year approaches, gas, sugar, cigarette, foreign wines, cloth, food, etc. from Cambodia have been streaming into Vietnam through border gates in southwestern provinces.  

VietNamNet Bridge - The Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate has ranked Vietnam fourth among emerging markets behind Brazil, China, and India.

VietNamNet Bridge - After five months of tightening control over online games, HCM City authorities have banned 20 games, said an official during yesterday’s conference on online games management.

UK operator’s 3rd Vietnam hotel set to open; Viet Nam to increase exports to Egypt; Sharp rise in unofficial exports of pigs to China; Real estate group gets down to business

Poor people, especially rural people, are drinking no-brand alcohol which they believe to be rice alcohol but they don’t know that they are consuming fake alcohol which is very harmful for your health. VietNamNet reports.

VietNamNet Bridge - “Đờn ca tài tử” -- a fading genre of folk music mainly developed and spread in the south of Vietnam from the last century -- will be submitted to UNESCO by March, 2011 for recognition as an Intangible Cultural Heritage.

VietNamNet Bridge - Five of the commercial banks in Vietnam either have established or are preparing for expanding overseas, mostly in Southeast Asian countries.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Airlines announced Wednesday it would increase further flights on major domestic routes in January to meet the surge in demand for upcoming Tet (the lunar New Year) which falls on February 2, 2011.

HCM City grants $10.3 million unemployment benefits to residents; Catering plants pose health risks; Journalist handcuffed for allegedly assaulting cop; Hanoi gift clock out of order; Reclaiming public properties drags on in city    

Digital libraries gain popularity; International seminar on amateur music to be held in HCM City; Hanoi receives 215 objects excavated from Thang Long Citadel; Award-winning documentary to be screened      

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese taxpayers are complaining the current personal income tax is too high compared to rising inflation, citing unreasonable tax on stipends and too low a deduction for dependents.

Dr. Tran Hoang Ngan, member of the National Advisory Council for Monetary Policies, said that to curb CPI at 7% in 2011, it is necessary to tighten spending to reduce the budget deficit and control trade gap.

A dozen of workers devoted themselves to beautify the Long Bien Bridge, a historical relic of Hanoi, in the coldest spell of the year.  

A project to restore the O Quan Chuong (Quan Chuong Gate) in Hanoi’s Old Quarters saw its first phase accomplished on January 4.