The outdated teaching methods explain why Vietnamese people, despite spending a lot of time and money, still cannot speak English well.

The gold and dollar prices have been increasing continuously, threatening businesses. Especially, the weaker dong does not benefit exporters, even making their business worse.

Though Galaxy Tab has been advertised as the redoubtable rival of Apple iPad, Vietnamese interest in this product remains very low.

A veterinary center to treat both wild and tame elephants and a breeding-research center will be set up under a VND 61 billion (US $3.1 million) conservation project approved by the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

President Triet off to APEC's Japan meeting; PM to attend G-20 Summit in S Korea; Viet Nam, Palestine strengthen solidarity; Fund to protect Vietnamese abroad approved; Vietnam attaches importance to agricultural and rural development

PM Dung promotes national maths strategy; Vietnam aims for sustainable development; Seventh National Physics Conference opens in Hanoi; Fund to protect Vietnamese abroad approved; Fishing boats seized by border guards

The send-off ceremony of the Vietnamese sport delegation to the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China took place at the Army Theatre in Hanoi on November 7. Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan and some celebrities attended the event.

VietNamNet Bridge – A HCM city official has stressed the need for identifying the responsibility of individuals and agencies for traffic accidents caused by road depressions and potholes.

VietNamNet Bridge – More investors from the U.S. are expected to enter Vietnam’s service sector after the year 2012 when the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is concluded, giving stronger leverage to the local economy . . .

Vinacomin is planning to raise the coal prices applied to big consumers such as electricity, fertilizer, paper and cement producers, once again making the consumers worried stiff.

Twenty beauties from the USA, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Singapore, etc. and host Vietnam spent their entire morning to see how rubbish is treated at the $100 million Da Phuoc garbage dump in HCM City on November 8.

VietNamNet Bridge – Interest rates, both borrowing and lending, are no longer leashed under new moves by the Government to contain inflation, which means enterprises will have to face higher capital costs . . .

After the talks with Vietnamese young film makers in Hanoi on November 8, Lars Henrik Gass, director of Germany’s Oberhausen International Short Film Festival received some Vietnamese independent short films for the upcoming festival.

VietNamNet Bridge – Germany, in its largest development package to Viet Nam yet, has committed nearly 300 million euros (US$420 million) for the 2011-12 period.

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies yesterday, Nov 8, discussed a resolution to reduce agricultural land usage taxes from 2011-20.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City university officials have urged city leaders to reconsider their plans to shift universities to the city's outskirts, warning the shift will make it too inconvenient for students and cost too much money to build . . .

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Department of Education and Training is planning to pilot the installation of camera systems allowing parents to keep watch over their children at the city's kindergarten classrooms in the last two months of this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vestiges of prehistoric human settlements and two historic seaports have been discovered by archeologists in Bai Tu Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

VietNamNet Bridge – A series of cultural events will be held in an Open Academy project to encourage Vietnamese and German artists to work in collaboration in different activities.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's under-23s cruised past Bahrain 3-1 in their first match in the Asian Games yesterday, Nov 8.

Volleyballer to be VN's flag-bearer; Viet Nam to host futsal tournament; Thang's injury adds to football team's woes

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Finance Deputy Minister Tran Xuan Ha told the 17th APEC Finance Ministerial Meeting in Kyoto, Japan, that Vietnam would contribute $10 million to the ASEAN infrastructural fund.

VietNamNet Bridge – Shooting has been always a focus for Viet Nam in regional sport events. At the forthcoming 16th Asian Games (ASIAD) the team has been tasked with snatching a gold medal.

Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday, it has made progress in understanding the cause of the engine failure that forced a Qantas A380 jet to make an emergency landing after a mid-air engine explosion on Thursday.

Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday extended rally and managed to stand above psychological mark 1,400 U.S. dollars, settling at all-time high 1403.2 dollars amid bullish sentiment.