VietNamNet Bridge – Taiwanese band Semiscon will perform a concert at Ben Thanh Theatre in HCM City tonight, March 8.

VietNamNet Bridge – The electricity price increase is not the biggest worry for manufacturers any more. Regular electricity cuts is what worries them most.

Economist Pham Chi Lan has called for the reconsideration of the price stabilization program, because she believes that the program only benefits enterprises, not consumers, especially the poor.

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The trial against French former President Jacques Chirac opened on Monday afternoon, accusing him of having created "fake jobs" for friends and allies in his Rally For the Republic (RPR) party in 1990s.

U.S. researchers have successfully used certain microbes to produce biofuels, opening a door to developing cheaper "green" energy.

Heavy rain a boon for crops; Former soccer star stabbed by girlfriend; Fog disrupts flights from Cat Bi Airport; Health ministry checks on drug prices nationwide; Man miraculously recovers from VN’s rare surgery      

VietNamNet Bridge – Though earlier this year the government conveyed a message that it will tighten monetary policies to curb inflation, commercial banks were still shocked when they were told to implement tightened policies.

VietNamNet Bridge - Financing disagreements are holding back the development of a crucial port for northern Vietnam.

“While we were dropping an anchor, we saw a high-speed canoe approaching. Somali pirates holding machine-guns got close to the ship, overpowered the captain and other sailors,” Tri, who has just returned home from Somalia, recalled.

The British government on Friday published a tourism strategy that will aims to make Britain one of the top five tourist destination in the world.

Vietnamese French actress Tran Nu Yen Khe is a nominee for the Best Costume Design award with “Norwegian Wood” at the fifth Asian Film Awards, which will take place in Hong Kong in mid-March.

Taiwan vocal band performs in Hai Phong; UNESCO official sees Buddhist Sutra-carved blocks; Vietnamese film days to open; HCM City busts maker of pirated movies, music; Local dance movie to hit American screens

Builders struggle with increasing prices; Electrical appliances stores beef up promotional packs; Bank deposit interest rate to be checked; 151 stated-owned companies to be audited; Timber export tops half a billion dollar    

VietNamNet Bridge – In the next five years, the city will purchase 1,680 new buses with the total funding of VND2 trillion ($100 million), according to a newly-approved plan for 2011-2015.

Cell phones have become smarter in the past years with its function almost matching a computer, and in the smartphone revolution, Apple's iPhone is a latecomer but has become a rising star, Android Google phone is getting the upper hand,

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is set to cement its trade ties with neighbouring Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese enterprises really want to make tablet PCs with Vietnamese brand names, but they admit that it is very difficult. The problem does not lie in technologies, but how to make the products competitive with iPads.

The hikes in electricity and fuel prices on March 1 are causing distress to businesses and ordinary citizens. With prices going up all round as a result, practicsing thrift seems to be the only solution at the moment.

The price increases of gas, electricity, water and essential goods have forced schools to consider raising tuitions. Meanwhile, parents are living in fear because they understand that tuitions will be increasing, sooner or later.

VietNamNet Bridge – Around 3.2 million poor households in the country would be given support totalling VND1.12 trillion (US$53.3 million) from the State budget following the recent increase in electricity price,

HCM City faces labour shortage; ‘Creative business' awards launched; HCM City revises clean water prices in rural areas; HCM City to replace thousands of old buses

A fresh wave of cyber attacks hit major South Korean Web sites, including that of the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae, on Friday, local media reported, citing industrial sources.

New data suggest that the epilepsy drug Topamax (topiramate) and its generic versions increase the risk for the birth defects cleft lip and cleft palate in babies born to women who use the medication during pregnancy, the U.S. Food

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Loc is one of two Vietnamese female scientists who will receive the Kovalevskaia Award 2010 at a ceremony in Ha Noi on March 8, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper has reported.