Coal output targeted at 13m tonnes; New border gate economic zone established in Ha Giang; Firm recycles steel slag into construction material; Hyundai-Vinashin faces tax burden; Debt-ridden firms default, bargain away assets  

The Government is applying a series of measures in an attempt to help companies survive the prolonged economic crisis, including adjustments in taxation, interest rates on bank loans, administrative procedures and capital sources.

VietNamNet Bridge – The armies of Vietnam and China should promote dissemination of information on traditional friendship between the two countries and continue to co-ordinate at the multilateral forums,

An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted Chile at 11:50 a.m. Beijing Time Tuesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 1,300 hectares of winter-spring rice in Lak District in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have disappeared, because the local authorities have not repaired a 32m dike which was broken six months ago.

VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the southern province of Binh Duong have conducted inspections on petrol stations, and found that 13 out of the 40 they visited were violating fuel trading regulations.

VietNamNet Bridge – A 15-minute whirlwind blew away the roof and damaged over 60 houses in Hong Hoa commune of Quang Binh province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three people died in a head-on crash between a taxi and a truck in the southern province of Dong Nai in the early morning of April 15.

Weakness in U.S. stocks continued into the third week as an upbeat government report on retail sales was offset by a sell-off in technology stocks including Apple.

VietNamNet Bridge – On April 8, nine people in a family in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau ate poisonous mushroom soup. Two of them died while six are in the hospital.

A lot of well-known big hotels in Vietnam have changed hands recently. However, they would not change their names.

VietNamNet Bridge – 1,000 bronze items of the Dong Son civilization are now exhibited at the History and Revolution Museum of Thua Thien-Hue province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fantastic dance performances by Indonesian artists and Vietnamese students on Saturday at HCM City's Youth Cultural House kicked off a week-long cultural festival in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three high-school students in the northern province of Phu Tho were swept away on April 14, while playing on the bank of the Red River.

VietNamNet Bridge – The ocean sunfish which was netted by a fisherman in the central province of Nghe An on April 9, has been given to the Vietnam Museum of Nature.

The 96th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday in New York's Columbia University with the Philadelphia Inquirer receiving the coveted public service Pulitzer.

VietNamNet Bridge - The traditional New Year of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, Chol-chnam-Thmay was celebrated in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam on April 15.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities have detected a banned chemical named Trifluralin in fish sold at the city’s Binh Dien Wholesale Market.

Japan will lend 60 billion U.S. dollars to the International Monetary Fund to help prevent the European sovereign debt crisis from dragging down the global economy, the Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Singer and actress Nhat Kim Anh won the Favourite TV Series Actress award at the sixth HCM City Television Awards on Saturday by polling more than 16,000 audience votes.