HCM City hosts 4th ornamental tree festival 2010; Promoting and preserving Southern amateur music; Vietnam Fashion Fair opens; Artworks on country’s sea and islands go on show; Award given to novel on Lam Son uprising  

VietNamNet Bridge - The local information and communications technology (ICT) hardware industry should invest more in research and development (R&D) to increase competitive capacity and seize more market share, experts have said.

One kilo of gold to make one Sim card; HAGL to sell $200 mln bonds in Singapore; Gold changes little; Oil import taxes cut again as prices rise; Central Highlands gets first bonded warehouse; Ministry hikes rates on State-subsidized loans  

VietNamNet captures the beauty of special pine trees in HCM City one day before the Christmas.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) will postpone the official inauguration of its US$3 billion Dung Quat Oil Refinery by two weeks to January 6.

As the doors of commercial banks are shut tight these days and banks have become more selective in providing loans, small businesses have no other choice than borrowing at exorbitant high interest rates on the black market.

VietNamNet Bridge – The smallest inborn baby in Vietnam – Hoang Thi Man, 700gr at birth – left hospital on December 20 in the happiness of her family and doctors of the Hanoi-based Bach Mai hospital.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese Bkis Bkav Home Plus has surpassed over 50 products to enter the world’s top ten anti-virus software, according to the UK Virus Bulletin magazine.

Scores of foreign investors coveting Vietnam’s tea industry have provided some words of wisdom to ameliorate the country’s tea quality globally.

VietNamNet Bridge - Children born in Vietnam to Vietnamese mothers and foreign fathers will be granted Vietnamese citizenship and supplied birth certificates, assured a judicial official from the Ministry of Justice.

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of wholly-foreign owned retailers in Vietnam remains limited after the Southeast country opened the distribution and retail market under its World Trade Organization commitments in January 2008. 

VietNamNet Bridge – At the end of the year or the wedding season, we would like to invite you to attend a traditional wedding ceremony of Dao quan trang ethnic minority group in Yen Bai a northern mountainous province in Vietnam.

2010 was a year with many “storms” in the gold market. Local newspapers have summarized the most outstanding figures.

VietNamNet Bridge - As jingle bells start chiming, Mövenpick’s hotels in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are packing holiday hampers and putting the final touches on a series of holiday menus.

VietNamNet Bridge – The atmosphere of Christmas is covering the capital city. Hanoi is beautiful and sparkling with Christmas trees and lights.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry said that Vietnam regrets the Swedish government’s decision to close its embassy in Hanoi next year but Vietnam hopes that the two countries will continue strengthening bilateral cooperation.

A lot of new policies set up in 2010 by the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) has had big impacts on the telecom market.

VietNamNet Bridge – Wearing a beard and red clothes, this Santa Claus drives a motorbike to deliver gifts to kids from the morning until midnight.

VietNamNet Bridge - With just a few days to go for Christmas and then New Year, festive cheer is blanketing the nation.

Relevant authorities in Vietnam are finding it hard to help HIV/AIDS-infected children go to schools despite great efforts to thwart public prejudice.

The apricot and peach prices are believed to be higher than during Tet 2010; however, it is still too early to say how high the prices will be because everything still depends on the gods.

Telecom companies have kicked off their plan to apply 4G/LTE technology right after they get the license from the Ministry of Information and Communication MIC.

VietNamNet Bridge – Young lecturers complain that the current system does not encourage them to conduct scientific research.

Experts say there are still many things private airlines need to learn in order to fly.