VietNamNet Bridge - The Viet Nam's south will need between VND 7 and 8 trillion (US$350-400million) each year by 2015 for developing transmission networks to meet the increasing demand.

“Bóng ma học đường” delves into issues faced by teens with relation to family, love, and school violenceThree eagerly awaited Tet releases -- “Thien su 99”, “Bong ma hoc duong,” and “Co dau dai chien” -- all star hot actors and actresses.

VietNamNet captured the Kitchen God festival in Hanoi, which felt on January 26.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Vietnam’s point of view is not receiving foreign unskilled workers,” said Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam protests China’s provision of the online mapping service named Map World, which shows the nine-dotted line in the East Sea, said Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga on January 26.

A bronze-made statue of the Mitreya Buddha of 10m high and 80 tons in weight has been recognized as the biggest statue of its kind in Vietnam by the Vietnam Record Book Center (Vietkings).

The Consumer Price Index this month increased strongly by 1.74 per cent against December mainly due to food price hikes, ranking second after the record growth of 2.38 per cent in January 2008, the General Statistics Office reported yesterday.

Chickens at a poultry farm in Japan' s southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima have tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, local government officials said Wednesday.

It is no secret that Beijing is a particularly dry place to live compared with many other capital cities, especially in winter.

VietNamNet Bridge – In over a week, nearly 100 schoolgirls of the Son Thanh Junior and High School in Tay Hoa district, the central province of Phu Yen fainted.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 10-hectare Thanh Long Sports Center in HCM City will be sold to a banker, a manager of the sports center said on January 23.

Oil giant earns $2.1b in January; World Bank arm buys into Vietnam state-owned bank; Stable fertiliser prices predicted; US firm to build solar cell plant in HCM City; Liberty ranks best in business performance

The Ministry of Finance has turned down a proposal by the Viet Nam Gold Traders Association to reduce the export tax of gold and gold jewelry, announcing yesterday that the current tax rate of 10 per cent would remain in effect.

VietNamNet Bridge - Computer viruses will continue to thrive in Viet Nam this year as internet-users ignore the consequences of installing fake software online, the Bach Khoa Anti-virus centre said in their "2010 Virus Review".

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.