The rocket for Pyongyang's planned satellite launch later this month has been installed on the launch pad, Xinhua correspondents saw at the launch site Sunday.

The U.S. unemployment rate edged down 0.1 percentage point to 8.2 percent in March, with job growth stalled, refreshing worries that the current economic growth may not be strong enough to bring sustained labor market improvement.

Japan now has over 214,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing industry without overseas investments. This situation offers Vietnam opportunities to attract these firms to develop the feeble supporting industry at home.

A delegation from the Viet Nam Administration of Forestry is inspecting deforestation in central Quang Nam Province following instruction from Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai.

Japanese investors are marching towards Vietnam. Not only accounting for 90 percent of the total foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country; Japanese have been penetrating the Vietnamese market through merger and acquisition (M&A) deals.

At least 30 people were killed when a powerful car bomb hit the Gwari area of northern Nigeria's Kaduna State on Sunday morning with deaths reported, a police source has disclosed.

A gas explosion occurred at a boarding house in An Phu ward, Thuan An Town, Binh Duong province, killing one and leaving 12 others with serious burns.

The banking sector requires a high degree of transparency and professionalism, which attaches special importance to improving the quality of human resources for the system.

Fragments of a defunct Russian military communications satellite, Molniya-1T, fell into the Pacific Ocean Saturday night, according to local media reports.

The death of some “big guys” in the fisheries sector in Can Tho and Soc Trang provinces has sounded an alarm about the financial situation imbalance, which may lead to the bankruptcy of a lot of seafood companies and fish farmers as well.

The U.S. dollar climbed against major currencies this week as concerns about the European debt crisis again weighed on the euro and upbeat U.S. job data helped restore investors' confidence in the U.S. economy.

VietNamNet Bridge – A meeting attended by representatives from nearly 150 foreign direct investment enterprises to solve difficulties in foreign labour administration was held in HCM City on Thursday.

With vast gardens of green coconut trees, Ben Tre Province is considered the “capital” of coconuts in Vietnam. For the local people, coconut trees have a special place in their cultural life as well as the economic development process.

The Vietnamese tourism authority, buoyed by the rapid growth in Russian tourist arrivals in the last two years, has drawn up an ambitious plan to treble the number of Russian visitors to the country to 300,000 in 2014 from the 2011 figure.

Domestic coffee businesses continue hit snags as farmers still speculate products and sell them based on rumours.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Minh Quang, including other senior officials, yesterday answered public questions about land use polices and the environmental effects of production on the Government website www.chinhphu.vn.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam always gives top priority to consolidating and strengthening special ties of friendship and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, considering the relationship an invaluable asset for future generations.

If still following the current urban development programs, HCM City will move in a rut just like Bangkok City’s flooding, experts warn.

Ba Ria-Vung Tau is the only place in southern Vietnam and Southeast Asia as a whole that hosts the greyhound racing events.