VietNamNet Bridge – An increasing number of locally made series are being aired on national TV networks, but audiences are displeased with the quality of the offerings and the broadcast schedules.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is considering amending the current regulations on enrolling students for universities and junior colleges, hoping that the new regulations will help attract more foreign students.

VietNamNet Bridge – Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Deputy Minister of Defense, talked with VietNamNet about the success of defense foreign affairs in 2010.

VietNamNet Bridge – This year Tet bonus for male football players is only VND10 million ($500). For other sports, Tet bonus is dependent on the achievements of athletes in 2010.

Experts have warned that foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) in Vietnam now prefer importing goods to sell domestically instead of setting up production bases in the country.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam has successfully sent flower seeds into space for scientific research.

In Hanoi and HCM City in 2010, 1.47 percent of interviewees in Hanoi and 3.77 percent in HCM City said they didn’t go to hospital for examination because they didn’t have money.

VietNamNet Bridge - Urban noise is proving a major headache for residents, and responsible agencies have not found strict enough measures to deal with noise pollution.

VietNamNet Bridge – The reporter of Viet Nam News sits down with one of the country's most famous nature photographers, Nguyen Van Phuoc, to talk about art, people, nature and his work.

VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged ministries, sectors and grass-root authorities to provide an adequate power supply for business production and increased residential demand.

Dolphins are known to be intelligent, good natured mammals. So scientists in southern Israel are studying them to learn about their keen senses, their organizational pack behavior and protective nature.

Businesses suffer from a chronic capital shortage. However, the problems seems more serious in 2011, as commercial banks plan to tighten credit.

VietNamNet Bridge – Dale Poter, 58, took off his sneakers and walked bare foot on the road in Tra Que village in the ancient town of Hoi An, in the central province of Quang Nam, to go to the field to planting vegetable.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has forecast upbeat exports of several of the country's key agricultural products in 2011, following last year's bumper crop.

VietNamNet Bridge – President of the European Patent Office Benoit Battistelli had a talk with Viet Nam News on the sideline of the Heads of Intellectual Property Offices Conference about co-operation in this field.

Price stabilization program for 2011; Ha Noi IZs urged to offer investment incentives; Cement exports tipped to expand; Seafood firms take 30 spots on list of top 500 companies; Agriculture, aquaculture and forestry exports increase

VietNamNet Bridge – Well-paid local football stars are increasingly looking to the investment sector as a way of supplementing their incomes.

In times when the fine line between publicity mongering by celebrities and morbid curiosity about personal lives of celebrities are crossed freely and frequently, it is not surprising that celebrity weddings are a hot topic.

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign manufacturers are seeing new credit barriers to develop investment projects in Vietnam, which could reduce net capital inflows this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Meandering through lush forests and tapering mountains ranges, the Suoi Ngoc (Pearl Stream) in Hanoi’s Thach That District invites visitors to lose themselves in the natural splendor of its environs.

In 2010, the real estate price in Hanoi increased by 30 percent. In some areas the land prices increased by 100 percent or more. Experts say there are latent risks in Hanoi’s real estate market.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in Vinh Chau district, the southern province of Soc Trang, are harvesting violet onion to supply the market at the lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

VietNamNet Bridge - The US consul in Ho Chi Minh City, Le Thanh An, is an ethnic Vietnamese who will celebrate his first Tet in his homeland for 45 years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Piles of telecom cables have been left on the roads of Bach Mai and Truong Dinh, Hanoi for a long time. They have become traps for passers-by.

VietNamNet Bridge – The number of people taking medical examinations for parasitic diseases has increased since last June, says Dinh Xuan Sinh, head of the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases' Viet-Anh Infectious Disease Ward.