VietNamNet Bridge – Several local newspapers have recently introduced famous gold-inlaid buildings in the world. But Vietnam also has gold-laminated construction works.

Yahoo on Wednesday announced to lay off 2,000 employees, or about 14 percent of the company's workforce.

A lot of foreign invested enterprises have been found as conducting the behavior of “transfer pricing” which have been forced to pay tax arrears. However, the fighting against price transfer has always been a thorny issue.

The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova has voiced concern about the risk posed by fighting around the world heritage site of Timbuktu in northern Mali.

BOT investors hastily return projects to gov’t; Export revenues rise by 23.6 percent in Q1; HCM City seeks solutions for beleaguered firms; Vietnam dollar bonds best in Asia; Chinese farm machinery dominates

Nearly 12,000 businesses stopped operation or got dissolved in the first quarter of the year, the latest report by the Ministry of Planning and Investment show.

VietNamNet Bridge – Although the Government has outlawed the abuse of car horns since July 2010, drivers continue violating the rules.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act into law, that would prevent congressmen and government staffs from insider stock trading based on nonpublic information they collected.

A businessman named Nguyen Duc Luong, who is President and CEO of Truong Linh Housing Development Investment JS Company, used 60 taels of gold ($125,000) to decorate his house in the northern city of Hai Duong.

VietNamNet Bridge - The five-star Grand Plaza Hotel is part of the Grand Plaza shopping mall-hotel complex, investment by Charmvit, a Korean group.

VietNamNet Bridge – Yoko Ishikawa and her husband first visited Hoi An in 2006, but it wasn't until five years later that they decided to settle in the central tourism hub.

VietNamNet Bridge – The jury of the Livre et Mer Festival (Book and the Sea) has announced to present the Grand Prize to Vietnamese writer Bui Ngoc Tan’s “Sea and Kingfisher” novel.

Taio Cruz, an R&B/Dance singer who is widely known through the song “Dynomite” and Kimberly Caldwell, who ranked seventh at the American Idol 2003 are among foreign artists who will perform at the SoundFest on April 14 in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Teen murderer Le Van Luyen and similar cases are the evidences for law-making agencies to amend the law, says Dr. Dinh Xuan Thao, director of the Legislative Institute of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

Antiques on display at Hue Festival; Ivory Coast rock band to perform in Hanoi; Concert hosts world premiere of symphonic poem; Ben Tre Coconut Festival opens; Life Art explores gender in ‘Stranger’

Customs officers nab drug smuggler; 37 killed and injured in car accident; Hanoi youths hold up catchy road safety slogans; Three die, six injured in lorry crash

US$4 bln petrochemical complex to be built soon in Ba Ria-Vung Tau; HCM City: nearly 6,000 businesses dissolved in Q1; Garments become nation's top export; Seafood business debts leaving farmers in the lurch

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City health authorities have urged kindergartens to intensify efforts to prevent the spread of hand-foot-mouth disease at school.

A lot of commercial banks are considering increasing their chartered capital to protect themselves when necessary, from the attempts of the “big fish” taking them over.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will take part in the Asian Nations Chess Cup, organised for the first time in Zao Zhuang, Shandong Province, China.