VietNamNet Bridge – Police have fined nearly 4600 motorbike drivers for not wearing helmets in the past week, and seized more than 1000 motorbikes. Notably, 75 percent of violators are youngsters.

Climate change could prolong toxic algal outbreaks by 2040 or sooner, posing a health threat to humans, a new study suggests.

Vietnam car sales jump 48 pct y/y in Jan: Industry; AirAsia X connects Vietnam with Paris; Tien Giang province withdraws misused beach; Vietnam raises refinance rate 200 bps to 11 pct; Budget carrier offers cheap tickets to Danang

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign direct investment disbursement is expected to rise sharply this year as many foreign investors push big projects in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Chua Ba festival in the southern province of Binh Duong draws millions of visitors in the first lunar month. This is the business season for fake monks.

Explaining the continued gold price increases in mid February 2011, analysts say the gold price in the world has been escalating, while the demand in the domestic market increased sharply after the central bank devaluated the dong by 9.3%.

Tran Du Lich, former Head of the HCM City Economics Institute, emphasized that the priority for 2011 is reducing the total demand in the national economy in order in order to curb the inflation.

VietNamNet Bridge - The National Public Administrative Reform Project (Project 30 in short) has gained three significant achievements, said USAID Representative Francis A.Donovan.

A lot of students in Hanoi applaud the decision to relocate their universities to the suburb areas of the city, while others say they cannot understand why the schools need to move to other places.

VietNamNet Bridge – The dollar price increase has made real estate investors anxious and real estate developers worried sick. Meanwhile, the house prices are predicted to increase sharply in 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge - An ultimatum has been given to three environmental polluters at southern Tan Phu Trung Industrial Park.

Some readers and an Indian chef have told Tuoi Tre that the variety of rice a reader suspected contained rubber because it seemed strangely elastic is actually basmati, a very popular variety in India and Pakistan.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the warm weather, thousands of visitors flocked to the stadium in Hai Luu commune in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on February 19 to witness the finals of the buffalo fighting festival.

The train is coming, but this motorbike neglects the signal lamp and tries to pass Thi Cau bridge (linking Bac Giang and Bac Ninh provinces). A traffic jam occurs up to two kilometers long because everyone tries to pass the bridge.

VietNamNet Bridge – Long before the Oscar-nominated film The Social Network, Facebook and other internet networks had already become as much an addiction as a habit for many younger Vietnamese, triggering a battle for market share

VietNamNet Bridge – The 4th blood donation festival named “Pink Spring” held by the Central Institute for Hematology and Blood Transfusion at Hanoi’s My Dinh National Stadium on February 20 attracted several thousand young people.

Viettel, VinaPhone and MobiFone, the three biggest mobile service providers in Vietnam, have admitted to the tendency of post-paid subscribers becoming to pre-paid subscribers, though they declined to reveal the number of subscribers.

VietNamNet Bridge – To cope with a severe shortage of parking lots, a total of 570 ha will be earmarked for developing bus stations, parking lots for buses, taxis and cars, goods-transit centres and customs clearance warehouses,

VietNamNet Bridge – Cows are being discouraged to graze on rubbish dumps in a number of provinces, because of the health risks involved.

VietNamNet Bridge – City officials are alarmed about food processors' excessive use of industrial chemicals to make products look fresh, clean or white.

Provisions sent to stranded crew; Eight injured in a workplace accident; Thousands turn out for blood drive; US fines exporters of damaged computers; Logos, ads may appear on invoices

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Hanh Anh Thu of Dong Nai Province decided to apply to the HCM City University of Science's Environment Faculty after she and her classmates received advice from experts during the Student Enrollment Day event

German, French, Vietnamese dancers stage Faces; Photograph exhibition on cultural life opens; Nha Trang ranks second as best pageant host city; 40,000 maps of Hoi An given free to tourists

VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition presenting the work of French embroidery artist Lionel Descostes has opened at L'Espace, the French cultural centre in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Cai luong (reformed theatre) artist Kim Tu Long will mark the 30th anniversary of his career with a live performance in HCM City this week.