As predicted, after Beeline, a small network operator, launched the “billionaire service package”--a new war in the mobile call charges has been kicked off.

Marketing and sales executives will top the list of human resources needs next year, according to HCM City Centre of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information.

NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung’s official visits to the European Parliament (EP), Belgium and the UK from Dec. 4-11 were of great significance, realising the country’s socio-economic development orientations.

The real stories about the challenges faced by enterprises and authorities in the fight against fake products were brought up at a seminar in HCMC late last week on the drawnout struggle against counterfeits and trade fraud.

Sharpshooters Ha Minh Thanh, Tran Quoc Cuong and Hoang Xuan Vinh will be a formidable force at the upcoming Asian Shooting Championship in Doha, Qatar, on January 11.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s fashion industry is integrating into the world. Many foreign models have developed their careers in Vietnam. VietNamNet would like to portray some of them.

The death toll of a suicide bombing on a shrine in Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday has risen to 80, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday.

Retailers still can see big opportunities in the Vietnamese home appliance market after a hot development period. Therefore, they still move ahead with the plans to expand retail chains, even though the market is gloomy at this moment.

Ministry mulls banning A83 gasoline production; Market hits three-month high; Rice exports reach US$3.29 billion; Indochina Airlines license not yet revoked; Merger proposed for airport management corporations; Coffee export earns 2.3 billion USD

Besides the industrial manufacturing sector as a key investment area, the retail sector in the southern province of Binh Duong has emerged as a new magnet for foreign companies.

Australian scientists from University of Sydney on Saturday announced they have developed a vaccine to help halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease of humans in a joint race.

Vietnamese rice traders are growing more concerned about a lack of export contracts for next year as few deals have been clinched with importers, said a leading food trader at a meeting on Monday.

Viet Nam’s first-ever professional basketball team is aiming high when it will compete for the first time in the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) competition in January.

State-owned firms’ divestments for banking sector have generated industry insiders’ diverse sentiments.

The winner of the annual Vietnamese children’s singing contest Do Re Mi 2011, eight-year-old Do Tri Dung, will perform in Melbourne, Australia, alongside Australian artists in a music gala to celebrate the holiday season.

Trieu Thi Ha, 19, an ethnic Nung girl from the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang, has become Miss Ethnic Vietnam 2011.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, her compatriot Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's women's rights activist Tawakkul Karman collected the 2011 Nobel peace prize here on Saturday.

Korean and Vietnamese speaking contest launched in HCM City; National Young Fine Arts Festival concludes; Writers Association celebrates anniversary; Prizes for poster contest announced; Int'l artists to feature Vietnam FAME festival  

The global economy will recover slowly though growth will accelerate from this year’s rate, while Viet Nam’s export performance will improve, analysts have said.

The Government will soon release a decree to tighten management and increase economic effectiveness of economic zones (EZ), industrial zones (IZ) and industrial clusters (IC), a senior official has said.