As anticipated, enterprises are seriously lacking workers after Tet, because laborers do not return after the Tet holiday. Production enterprises have been taking special measures to attract laborers.

US tycoon Sheldon Adelson said that his Las Vegas Sands is willing to build luxurious integrated resorts (IR) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City at a combined investment capital of US$5-6 billion.

VietNamNet Bridge - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat on February 6 sent an urgent telegraph to provinces and cities across the country, asking them to take drastic measures against the recurrence of bird flu.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Vietnamese Communist Party Le Hong Anh held a working session on February 7 with key cadres from the Central Commission for Communication and Education.

Vietnam’s retail market is becoming less attractive, with its global ranking downgrade to 23rd place in the 2011 Global Retail Development Index (GRDI) released by A.T. Kearney.

The Tien River, which runs through several provinces in the Mekong Delta, has been severely contaminated, with some pollutants exceeding the limits by up to 1,000 times, seriously affecting the life and health of local people, authorities reported.

The non-performing loans (NPL) and bad debt ratio have been increasing, which experts believe would badly affect the business results of banks in 2012.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese artists joined their counterparts from the Republic of Korea in a concert in Ha Noi on Monday to mark the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

VietNamNet Bridge – Stories about the daily lives and unique cultures of seven ethnic groups are being recorded through thousands of images as part of the PhotoVoice project.

VietNamNet Bridge – Police of the northern port city of Hai Phong have determined those who were involved in demolishing the house and assets of Doan Van Vuon and Doan Van Quy in the land revocation in Tien Lang district, Hai Phong.

The death toll from the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that shaked central Philippine province of Negros Oriental on Monday rose to 52, local officials said Tuesday.

At least 11 factory workers, mostly women, were killed when a three-storey building of a medicine factory collapsed due to a blast in eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, rescue teams and health officials said.

The digital product market did not obtain the expected high growth rate in 2011, but the sales of mobile phones and laptops – the two key categories of digital products – still could thrive with the growth rate of 20 percent. How about 2012?

The preferences together with the drastic measures to be applied by state management agencies would help encourage the tendency of green design, energy saving and environment protection for nowadays, when more and more high rise buildings arise.

A new UN report on Monday said that almost 2,000 communities across Africa abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) last year, prompting calls for a renewed global push to end this harmful practice once and for all.

Brunei and Vietnam should make greater efforts to enhance bilateral cooperation in the future, said Brunei Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah.

Since February 1, the afternoon learning shift of high schools finishes at 7 pm instead of 5 pm. The change has made general schools worried stiff, because they would have to pay for a series of additional expenses.

The dollar price has unexpectedly decreased in recent days. Experts believe that with the current big gap of 10 percent in the dong and dollar interest rates, it is not likely to see the dong depreciate.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the plan to preserve and turn the Thang Long Royal Citadel in Hanoi into an outdoor museum.

The Vietnamese youth are becoming increasingly absorbed with the modern-day art of kirigami (the creation of 3D paper artworks).