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Vietnamese willing to pay for new expensive services

Many unfamiliar services have been launched into the market and are expensive in comparison with the average income of Vietnamese. However, many consumers are willing to pay for them.

No excuse for bad decisions made by senior officials

Ho Xuan Hung, adviser to the National New Style Rural Development Programme, told newspaper Nong thon Ngay nay about some key factors leading to the VND10 trillion debt incurred during programme implementation.

Objectives and guiding viewpoints of international integration through 2020

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has promulgated an Overall strategy for international integration through 2020, vision to 2030 which states objectives and viewpoints of international integration.

Quang Ninh to repossess resettlement housing improperly used

 VietNamNet Bridge – All houses under the resettlement programme in the northern Quang Ninh Province's Ha Long City which are being used for the wrong purpose will be repossessed.

Vietnam’s poverty rate expected to drop below 5% by year-end

 VietNamNet Bridge – The poverty rate is projected to fall below 5% by the end of the year, according to a report to the National Assembly on the implementation of national target programmes that aim to improve people’s living standards.

Paid Christmas escorts trending among young Vietnamese

Paid Christmas escorts trending among young Vietnamese; Vietnam aims to modernise 20% of rural communes in 2015; Japan FM honours Vietnam’s Japan Alumni Chairman; Health care service charges to be reconsidered

Con Co Island – a floating green pearl

 VietNamNet Bridge – Located not far from the coast of Quang Tri Province, the small island of Con Co has its own long and interesting history.

VN struggles to retain scientists

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam needs to provide adequate salaries for young scientists in order to keep them motivated and develop the next generation of researchers,

Huge gap remains in living standards

 VietNamNet Bridge – The gap in people’s living standards between urban and rural areas and the rich and the poor remains huge, a seminar heard in Hanoi on March 4.

Vietnam welcomes recommendations on human rights policies

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomes the constructive comments and recommendations of UN member countries on its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report in the second cycle, a leading Vietnamese diplomat has said.

HCM City per capita income to top $4,500

VietNamNet Bridge – The ongoing global economic turmoil will not prevent HCM City from turning in an impressive economic performance with a per capita income of US$4,513 this year.

Urban growth sparks environmental headache

VietNamNet Bridge – After more than three decades living in a degraded 36-sq.m tenement house, elderly Nguyen Thi Hoa and her family are delighted to have moved to a newly built flat in Tu Liem District's My Dinh urban apartment block,

Three's a crowd for many VN families

 VietNamNet Bridge – No-one in Huu Nghi Hospital in Ha Noi knew that nurse Nguyen Anh Lan was pregnant until she gave birth to her third child early this year.

PM eyes 6 percent of GDP growth in 2014

VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has issued a directive urging ministries, sectors, local authorities and State-owned corporations to build socio-economic development plans and State budget estimates for 2014

Vietnamese spend $7-8 billion on foreign services

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese spend $1.5 billion dollars to receive training at foreign universities, $2 billion to have healthcare abroad and $3.5 billion on outbound tours.

How big is the Vietnamese branded goods market? (Part 2)

More and more well known brands have set their foot in Vietnam not because of the high revenue the market now can bring, but because of the market potentials they believe would turn into reality in the future.