VietNamNet Bridge – A US$155 million hospital waste water treatment project was kicked off yesterday, Dec 12, by the Ministry of Health and financed by the World Bank in Ha Noi.

Big push for Mekong Delta region; Man on Porsche ignores cops, humiliates reporter; Firework displays on for Lunar New Year; Fire burns down plastic company in Bac Ninh

PM welcomes Lao, Palestinian ministers; Chief Judge of Laos visits Vietnam; Transport ministry delegation visits Laos

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Match Play Championship is set to kick off at the Montgomerie Links golf course in Quang Nam Province on December 22.

VietNamNet Bridge - 350 photographers and volunteers participated in a program to shoot portraits of people and deliver to them for free on December 10. Up to 2,500 portraits were taken on the day, featuring faces of Saigonees of all ages.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two weeks before Christmas, streets in the Old Quarter like Hang Ma, Hang Luoc and Luong Van Can are dyed in red by toys and decorative items.

Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent announced Monday that Canada is formally withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol.

Frank Lampard's last-seven-minute penalty propelled Chelsea to a 2-1 victory over Manchester City and handed the Premier League leader their first defeat of the season on Monday.

Vietnam National Academy of Music celebrates 55th anniversary; Hanoi prepares for New Year firework display; Beauty pageant opens for Vietnamese students in China; Police TV channel to explore order issues

Stocks opened the new week in negative territory on both stock exchanges yesterday as investors continued to unload shares on fears of steeper declines.

The tourism sector is looking to cash in on a proposal from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to give Government workers an extra long Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday next January.

The global ratings firm Standard&Poor’s has downgraded the long-run credit rating of three domestic banks BIDV, Vietcombank and Techcombank from BB – to B+.

A recently released survey by Yahoo showed that Vietnam tops Southeast Asian countries in spending on mobile internet services, with an average of $24 per month.

The Pa Co ethnic minority people in Vietnam hold the Ada festival after harvest to thank Heaven and prepare for the next crop.

HCM City is expected to generate 265,000 new jobs next year, 57.7 percent of which are for female workers, said Tran Anh Tuan, deputy director of National Centre of Labour Market Information and Forecasting.

VietNamNet Bridge – Wild animals in the mountainous districts of Mekong Delta An Giang and Kien Giang provinces are facing a serious extinction threat because of local hunters looking for meat to sell at local pubs.

Denying the information about slashing the ceiling deposit interest rate to 13 percent, but the State Bank of Vietnam has affirmed that the interest rate would be lowered in the time to come.

The 13th National Assembly Standing Committee began its 4th session in Hanoi on December 13.

The current performance of the foreign currency market shows that the State bank of Vietnam is trying everything it can so as to fulfill its commitment not to adjust the dong/dollar exchange rate by more than one percent until the end of the year.

Countries meeting in Durban, South Africa, have delivered a breakthrough on the future of the international community's response to climate change, while recognizing the urgent need to raise their collective level of ambition to reduce . . .