Tablet PCs now not only can undertake office jobs for office workers, but can also help serve customers at café and restaurants.

VietNamNet Bridge – The indoor football team will be busy next year with a full schedule that will see them compete in three international tournaments beginning in February.

Vietnamese universities fail to attract the most excellent and the richest students, because they choose to go studying abroad when feeling disappointed about the domestic university education.

While businesses feel worried that they may fail to fulfill the yearly business plan in the big economic difficulties, they have heard another shocking news: the electricity price increases from December 20.

VietNamNet Bridge – Gymnasts Do Thi Ngan Thuong and Pham Phuoc Hung will have their eyes set on the remaining spots at the 2012 London Olympics as they compete in the qualifying event in England on January 10-13.

VietNamNet Bridge – Significant outcomes have been attained in curbing population boom in Viet Nam, with 18.5 million people lower than estimated by 2010, according to health officials yesterday, Dec 20.

VietNamNet Bridge – President of the Senate of Thailand Teeradej Meepien will be making an official visit to Viet Nam.

The United States, Japan and India held their first trilateral dialogue here on Monday over a "wide range" of regional and global issues of common interest.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ratified two international protocols as measures to prevent and fight organised crimes across national borders more effectively.

VietNamNet Bridge – Drivers and assistants of HCM City's inter-provincial busses allegedly involved in transporting smuggled goods have been suspended from work for further investigation.

Barcelona smashed Santos 4-0 in the Club World Cup final on Sunday in Yokohoma, wining the tournament for the second time, first in 2009, with Messi striking twice and winning the Golden Ball Award.

A strange disease has hit inhabitants of the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, near Kumasi, 270 km north of the capital, claiming two lives, health officials said here on Monday.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has reaffirmed Vietnam’s strong support for cooperation in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) towards integration, prosperity and sustainable development.

Current minimum wage is still far from meeting rising costs and the spiraling inflation rate, admitted, Pham Thi Hai Chuyen, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affair (Molisa).

Vietnam finished the 6th ASEAN ParaGames whose closing ceremony was held yesterday night in Solo, Indonesia at the fourth place with 44 gold medals, trailing to Thailand, the host Indonesia and Malaysia.

Local authorities have been rushing to attract foreign direct investment FDI by offering high investment incentives to investors. However, experts have pointed out that tax incentives are not the only thing that can be used to attract investors.

VietNamNet Bridge – One week before Christmas, churches, high-rise buildings and shops in Hanoi are striking by colored lights.

Eurozone countries on Monday have agreed to channel 150 billion euros (about 195 billion U.S. dollars) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to boost a firewall against the debt crisis, with Britain refusing to join hands.

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A Vietnamese delegation led by Politburo member Le Hong Anh paid tribute to Kim Jong-il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) at the DPRK Embassy in Hanoi on Dec. 20.