Though commercial banks have continuously raised deposit interest rates, the banking system cannot mobilize more capital from the public. The money just transfers from one bank to another.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 2010 Vietnam Land Talent Awards Ceremony was held in Hanoi on November 21 to honour nine information technology products, a series of medical research, and two scientists.

State owned economic groups and general corporations are now considered the “motivating force” of the national economy. However, the national economy cannot continue based only on set rails.

The fact that Professor Ngo Bao Chau has received the gift from the Government – an apartment worth $600,000 – has immediately become a matter of controversy.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre has forecast more rain in the central region under the influence of a new cold spell moving south.

The successive information about the new moves of casino projects recently has raised the question if there are any changes in the policies relating to the sensitive business field.

VietNamNet Bridge – Almost 100 children delivered an emphatic plea for inclusion in society's decision making in Ha Noi during the weekend.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of industrial parks have sprung up around the country but most of them lack facilities for environmental protection and workers' housing.

The CDMA mobile service provider S-Fone has confirmed that it is seeking the partners to sell stakes after South Korean SK Telecom withdrew from the Business Cooperation Contract (BCC).

VietNamNet Bridge – Polluting brick kilns are continuing to operate in Soc Son District despite the fact their toxic smoke caused the death of three people last Monday and has been killing livestock over a long period.

An open environment will nurture art and make the nation proud of its prominent artists, said Huynh Buu Son, a and well known Vietnamese businessman.

VietNamNet Bridge – Learning in their own language had proven the most effective for minority children, a seminar to plan policies to improve their education was told in Ha Noi yesterday, Nov 21.

VietNamNet Bridge – An album of revolutionary music released recently in Ha Noi has both critics and fans singing its praise.

The sickly stock market has been testing stock investors’ patience for many months. Other stock markets have recovered but when will Vietnam’s stock market bounce back?

VietNamNet Bridge – While Viet Nam's hopes of winning an Asian Games gold medal are slowly diminishing, Vu Thi Huong and Le Ngoc Phuong provided a silver lining by qualifying for the semi-finals of the women's 100m yesterday in Guangzhou.

VietNamNet Bridge – For this year's Long Bien Bridge Festival, the 108-year-old construction, was decorated in the style of an ascending dragon, pertaining to the capital's former name, Thang Long.

A Boeing 767 passenger plane landed safely on Sunday at New York's John F. Kennedy airport after experiencing engine trouble.

All 29 trapped miners were pulled out of the flooded coal mine pit alive at around 1: 18 p.m. Monday, one day after the accident happened at 11 a.m. Sunday.

The head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov, said here on Sunday that the launch of an unmanned lander to one of the moon of Mars, Phobos, was scheduled for October 2011.

Four-year search for diagnosis ends as family finally given hope.

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on Sunday night confirmed the European Union (EU) has agreed to the Irish government's request for a financial aid package from the EU and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Contestants planted trees at the Vinpearl Da Nang resort in Da Nang City and Cat Trang Doc Let tourism site in Khanh Hoa province on November 21 to release the message “Each of us plants one tree, the world will have 7 billion trees”.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ngoc Thach from Vietnam won the Best in evening gown and entered the top ten contestants of the Miss Model of the World 2010 competition in China.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s Luu Thi Diem Huong won the Miss Bikini title of Miss Earth 2010 pageant in the central province of Phu Yen on November 20. Her bonus prize is $1000.

VietNamNet Bridge – After consulting with doctors, coach Henrique Calisto permitted striker Le Cong Vinh to withdraw from the Vietnamese football team to care for his knee injury.