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Vietnamese travelers now the targeted clients for foreign travel firms

The increasingly high number of Vietnamese travelers going abroad year after year has helped Vietnam list its name into the list of the key markets of many countries, such as Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea.

Vietnamese made goods, services declared reliable

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 100 products and services developed by Vietnamese businesses were honoured as reliable and trustworthy this year in a ceremony held yesterday, Dec 25.

Kim Jong Un hailed as great leader as his father: DPRK media

Official media of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Sunday that Kim Jong Un is the Korean people's leader as great as his father Kim Jong Il.

Protective forest turns into private farm

Nearly 10 hectares of the protective forest in the area belonging to the two hamlets of Thanh Loc and Tan An in Ngoc Thanh commune of Vinh Phuc province have been destroyed by a private business.

ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 26/12

Minh Huong wins best actress title at Russian film festival; Local rock tour concludes in Ho Chi Minh City; Private war museum marks fourth birthday; Hanoi circus to perform belly dance; Spring flower festival arouses love for sea and island    

Short circuit in battery, possible cause of motorbike explosions

Police under the Ministry of Public Security has so far concluded the possible cause of the recent motorbike and car explosions to be short circuit of battery wires.

Man jailed for making fireworks after blast

VietNamNet Bridge – Doan Van Dung, a 32-year-old man who was alleged of illegally producing fireworks and causing a large explosion on Saturday afternoon in northern Thai Binh Province, was temporarily jailed and prosecuted on the same day.

At least 25 killed in Nigeria's Abuja church bombing

At least 25 bodies had been recovered from Abuja Christmas day bomb blast scene, said Xinhua's reporter on Sunday in the Nigerian capital city.

Poachers hack wild elephant to death

VietNamNet Bridge – A wild elephant was found hacked to death with its tusk cut off in the southern province of Dong Nai last Friday, local authorities have said.

Vietnamese student receives UN award

Nguyen Sieu Hanh, in his final year as a student of the Business Administration Department at the Belgian United Business Institute, has received the World Summit Youth Award.

VN tops mobile Net spending

A survey conducted by Yahoo! on the use of internet via smart phones and other mobile devices in Southeast Asia found that consumers in Vietnam spent on average US$24 a month accessing the internet while on the move.

Gov't eyes telco mergers

The Government will strictly manage telecoms businesses and allow ailing and small-scale businesses in the sector to carry out mergers and acquisitions in line with the market economy.

2011: a rewarding year for athletes

2011 marked a milestone for several Vietnamese athletes who their pocketed biggest-ever rewards for their successes at major tournaments, such as the Southeast Asian Games, Asian, and world championships.

Hanoi makes drastic changes to parking rules

Ha Noi authorities have defined a series of norms to follow for the re-arrangement of the public parking system to ensure it is suitable with the city's socio-economic development and facilitates traffic order.

MOT kicks off plan to organize container transport by rail

Transport and logistics companies will benefit from the Ministry of Transport’s plan to organize the carrying of containers by rail.

Hanoi’s ‘pavement beer’ lures foreigners

VietNamNet Bridge – Tasting ‘bia hoi’ (keg beer) with fried nem chua (fermented pork roll), chili sauce, roasted peanuts and contemplate the Hanoi old quarter in the late afternoon is the hobby of many foreigners.

Shanghai to require real-name tweeting registration

Shanghai is going to require real-name tweeting registration on Monday, following similar moves adopted by other big cities such as Beijing and Guangzhou, municipal authorities said Sunday.

Boat capsizes, five feared dead

Five are feared dead or missing after a boat carrying 34 people, mostly soldiers, capsized and sank in heavy seas off Cua Dai beach in the central province of Quang Nam on December 25.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 26/12

EVN urged to cut costs, divest non-core investments; Motorcycle sales slump this holiday season; Kiev-HCM City direct air route opens; US$187 million to build traffic control centre; HAGL to build project in Myanmar  

Huge wave sweeps away houses in southern Thailand, people evacuated

Five meter waves hit three sub- districts in Thailand's southern Chumpon province's Langsuan district on Sunday noon, destroying several houses, bungalows and restaurants and forcing local residents to flee their homes.