VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese singers won both the gold prize for folk music and silver prize for pop music at the 2nd ASEAN Television Golden Voice Festival, which closed in HCM City on January 8.

VietNamNet Bridge - The industrial sector welcomed in the New Year by inaugurating a series of big energy projects.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam targets to reach total export turnover of about $78.8 billion in 2011, up over 10 percent from 2010, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

VietNamNet Bridge - Outgoing US Ambassador Michael W. Michalak who will end his tenure and leave Vietnam later this month after three years in the Southeast Asian country addressed a farewell press conference on January 6 in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City will set up a chain of shops selling organic food this year under a pilot food management project that is awaiting the Government's approval.

Ministry asks steel firms to cut costs; PVN halts $1b in bond sales overseas; PepsiCo launches $250m plant; Joint venture to build herbicide plant; Ministry calls for less public investment; Coffee exports down in 2010

 Despite Vietnam can product raw rubber, local rubber makers still have to import raw rubber from abroad to deal with domestic material shortfalls as the Vietnam Rubber Group’s “unprofessional operation”, the firms blamed. 

In order to reduce the big trade gap, Vietnam needs to reduce the trade gap with China. But how can Vietnam do that if it still continues relying on cross-border exports?

VietNamNet Bridge - The pristine turquoise waters of Mai Nha Isle are the perfect escape for city dwellers.

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 - 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 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 – 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.

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 – 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.

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 - 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.