Banks have hurriedly made public their credit growth rate quotas for 2012; because this is an effective way to declare that they are good banks.

VietNamNet Bridge – People in Quynh My commune of Quynh Luu district, the central province of Nghe An, are very surprised about the fact that a cock of a local woman laid a small egg.

VietNamNet Bridge – Pre-schools in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are in serious need of major investments to improve their poor facilities and deal with a severe teacher shortage.

VietNamNet Bridge – ASEAN senior defence officials are meeting in Phnom Penh to draft a declaration on increasing defence cooperation towards the realisation of the ASEAN Political Security Community by 2015.

Greece avoided the nightmare scenario of a possible default as early as next month and was granted a second chance to tackle the debt crisis with the strong support of European counterparts,

The “Strategic Environmental Assessment of proposed hydropower projects on the Mekong River’s mainstream” made by an expert team, including a Vietnamese consultant, has been selected for the international award “2012 Cooperative Initiative”.

Plastic surgeries do make you look much younger, according to a new study published in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.

VietNamNet Bridge – The national swimming and diving championships, the opening water sports tournament of the year, will take place in March in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Social network attracts 12 million members; PM asks for strong fight against bird flu; Japan wants to receive 10,000 Vietnamese workers a year; Nghe An struggles with unxploded ordnance clearance

VietNamNet Bridge – Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh will take part in the England Open Badminton Championships from March 6-11.

Mong Mi comes to life through her art; Painting exhibition on Tran Dang Khoa poems held in France; Modest photo wins coffee prize; Hue Festival tickets on sale; Hanoi to present French piano-drum duo; Writer Masatsugu Ono comes to town  

The projects on developing casino and amusement complexes all are worth billions of dollars and cover hundreds of hectares of land. Meanwhile, the casinos which have been operating on the trial basis do not show the necessity of casinos in Vietnam.

There remains a four-hectare mangrove forest which is home to thousands of various birds in Vinh Xuan Hamlet, Nha Trang City. The owner of the salinity-intruded forest is Nguyen Van Hung, 49, a poor farmer.

The delta that produces 85 per cent of Vietnam's rice exports is under threatened by reduced flows of the Mekong River, a leading water expert for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Having just married, the only female volleyball player in Vietnam, Ira – Le Kim Nhung, has returned to his team – Vietsovpetro – to prepare for the new season.

Le Hung Dung, chairman of the Vietnam Export Import Bank (Eximbank), has sent a document to the chiefs of Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Sacombank) to call for a reelection of the latter’s boards of directors and inspectors.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Fine Arts Museum are presenting a debut exhibition by artist Mong My and a duo exhibition by artists Nguyen Than and Kyem.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first Vietnam-Australia National Defence and Diplomacy Strategic Dialogue was held in Canberra, Australia, on February 21.

VietNamNet Bridge – The municipal People's Committee has decided to impose VND30 million (US$1,420) fines on 11 fuel dealers who were caught selling substandard gasoline.

VietNamNet Bridge – There were more occupational accidents but fewer related deaths in 2011, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MoLISA).