How to retain ADSL subscribers is a difficult question for service providers. The problem is that subscribers nowadays change service providers like they change clothes every day.

It is now clear that the inflation rate for the whole 2010 will be higher than the forecast level. In the last four years, the CPI forecasts have never proved accurate, which raises the problem of the reliability of forecasting and planning.

VietNamNet Bridge – Lately, teenagers and children have been frequenting the Sunday afternoon circus performance of a foreign entertainment group at Ha Noi Botanical Park.

The “double deficit”, i.e. the state budget and trade deficits, which lead to high inflation and put pressure on the dong/dollar exchange rate, are the most important factors why foreign capital still does not flow into Vietnam.

Most visitors to Vietnam need a visa to enter the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono shortened his state visit to Vietnam and returned home on October 27 for post-tsunami and earthquake rescue work.

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies stressed the need for a comprehensive law to combat trafficking, but said the current draft was not detailed enough and would be unfeasible.

VietNamNet Bridge – President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday, Oct 27, presented the 70-year Party membership badge to General Vo Nguyen Giap.

VietNamNet Bridge - A man in Quang Nam Province was rescued last week after a harrowing month he spent living in a cave. Dinh Van Huy allegedly lost his way while fleeing a brutal existence as a gold miner.

Viet Nam's investment and investment-management needs will change as it pursues its next five-year development plan as a middle-income country, experts have said at a conference that opened yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) chairman Nguyen Trong Hy said the transfer price of local footballers is getting far beyond their actual values and thus it is bringing about bad effect to the national football development.

VietNamNet Bridge - Phillip Noyce, director of “The Quiet American,” has been back in Vietnam since October 16 for the first Vietnam International Film Festival, eight years after he first came here to direct the film.

With almost half (47.4 percent) of adult men smoking or getting involved in other uses of tobacco, Vietnam has been put into the group of countries with extremely high smoking rates among men.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam will join hands with other ASEAN member nations to enhance regional connectivity for investors and companies to do business and make contributions to building the ASEAN Economic Community.

Muscleman to defend world title; Colleges vie for football cup; VN rank third in student ping pong; Football tourney tickets go on sale

VietNamNet Bridge - The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and the 7th Meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council Meeting were held in Hanoi Wednesday to finalise preparations for the 17th ASEAN Summit and related summits.

VietNamNet Bridge – International Grand Master Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son sent shockwaves through the chess world at the Cap D'Agde Rapid Chess Tournament in France after beating former world champion Russian Anatoly Karpov in his fifth match

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in coordination with the Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation, organised a seminar in Hanoi on October 27 on regenerating national forests.

The European Commission adopted on Wednesday its strategic priorities for 2011, with a special focus on sustainable recovery.

A new study has found that regular consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with a clear and consistently greater risk of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.

Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner (2003-2007) died on Wednesday of heart attack, local media reported.

Volcano eruption in Central Java of Indonesia on Tuesday has killed 29 people and forced 40,475 others flee homes, officials said on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Transparency International (TI) on October 26 released its 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Vietnam ranks 116th out of 178 countries and territories, with 2.7/10 points.

Rescuers have recovered 272 bodies as of Wednesday afternoon after a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's West Sumatra province Monday night.

VietNamNet Bridge – A watercolor and ink exhibition featuring 55 paintings by artist Tran Van Hai is now on at the City Exhibition House in HCMC’s District 1.