The pressure of the fierce competition in the banking sector and the ongoing bank restructuring process--both cannot lessen the attractiveness of the sector. Money keeps flowing into banks even in their most difficult period.

Greece's new coalition government headed by former European Central Bank Vice President Lucas Papademos was sworn in on Friday, amid hopes to put an end to the country's political turmoil.

The Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) approved VND59.3 trillion ($2.83 billion) for salary increases in the 2012 at a meeting on November 10.

Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora and Vice Interior Minister Felipe Zamora were killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, official sources said.

The European Music Festival 2011 will be held at the Youth Theater in Hanoi and the Ho Chi Minh City Music Conservatory from November 17 – 28.

WB programme to help reduce poverty in Vietnam; Lawmakers pan use of farmlands for industry; Mekong to develop flood-proof housing

More than 300 households on Nhim Island were told to leave the island to protect the water resource of the Dau Tieng reservoir. They did not know that they had to leave to give place for a film studio.

While manufacturers in the world have gone far in the robot industry, Vietnam-made robots still cannot go beyond the laboratories.

The bright and colourful opening ceremony of the 26th Southeast Asia Games (SEA Games 26) took place in Palembang city in the South Sumatra province of Indonesia on the evening of November 11.

HCM City to celebrate Japan-VN Day; Veteran composer to be honoured; Museum honours literature; Work kicks off on VN's largest ever film studio

A mass wedding ceremony, the largest of its kind, was held for 80 couples of workers in Ho Chi Minh City on November 11.

The potential impacts of hydroelectric power projects to be built on the main streams of the Mekong River were assessed at a seminar in Hanoi on November 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Construction is targeting an increase of 100,000sq.m of housing space each year during the 2011-20 period in an effort to meet demands and raise living standards.

VietNamNet Bridge – Canoeist Tran Van Long won Viet Nam its first medal in the C1 1,000m at the 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games yesterday morning, Nov 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoian office worker Tran Thi Bich Ngan wanted to find somewhere to relax at he weekends following a hard five days spent at work.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly declared yesterday that individuals found to be in violation of measurement regulations would be subjected to administrative punishment or face legal action, depending on the severity of the infringement.

Training human resources for the nuclear power sector will be the top priority in Vietnam’s National Nuclear Power Programme until 2020, says Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Dinh Tien.

Viet Nam always attached importance to its relations with the United States as a partner of strategic importance and praised the increased co-operation between the US and regional countries for peace, stability and development,

For the last two months, a man in Ho Chi Minh City has managed to register under his name nearly 40 new businesses as subsidiaries of a Da Nang-based company with dubious operation.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  The capital People's Committee has called on district authorities to halt the issue of licences allowing cars to park on city pavements.