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VietNamNet Bridge – The Da nang authorities have released public information about ticket prices and ticket selling addresses for the upcoming international firework festival 2012 in the city.

Viet Nam had the right to levy taxes on all transactions involving sales made in the country, including online advertising services provided by Google and Facebook, said deputy director of the Ministry of Finance's Tax Policy Department.

VietNamNet Bridge – People who were working on high floors of buildings in Hanoi and HCM City felt shaking from furniture at nearly 4pm this afternoon, April 11.

Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was elected as first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at a party conference here Wednesday, official news agency KCNA reported.

An 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday, sending residents around the region dashing out of their homes and offices in fear.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi Department of Transportation’s inspectors kicked of a large-scale inspection over the city’s taxi firms on April 10, says chief inspector Nguyen Hoang Giap.

The Vietnamese national disability swimming squad on Monday concluded their participations at the British International Disability Swimming Championships in Sheffield, bringing home eight tickets to attend the 2012 London Paralympic Games.

VietNamNet Bridge – A mine exploded on the afternoon of April 9, killing one and injuring another in Tuy Phong district in the central province of Binh Thuan.

The Vietnam Craft Village Association has repeatedly warned about the decline of famous craft villages. Some villages stay alive, but cannot sell products due to the market narrowing. Others have shut down their production or laid off workers.

The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) yesterday cut the deposit interest rates by 1 per cent for one-month and longer-term deposits, bringing the rate down to 12 per cent per annum effective from today.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s sports sector is urgently preparing for the 2012 London Olympics, by sending its top athletes to a lot of international sport events.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam, is located on an active fault zone, which can cause earthquakes anytime, scientists from the Geo-physics Institute said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Athlete Tran Tuan Quynh returned home on April 10 to get a visa to Hong Kong for the Asian qualifier round of the Olympics 2012.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many people in HCM City did not know that the city would be hit by the first storm of 2012, Pakhar--so they still were on the road when the storm came.

Britain's gold medalists at the London Olympics will be offered no cash incentive by the British Olympic Association and the UK government, reports said here on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mr Do Trong Hung, in Hai Hau district, Nam Dinh Province, has asked the local authorities’ urgent assistance after some men placed two caskets in front of the door of his house.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese enterprises, which have been bent with the high tax, capital shortage, high interest rate and market fluctuation burdens, now face a serious human resource crisis.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fires at the Nong Son coal mine in the central province of Quang Nam has blazed up after several years of smoldering underground.

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