Ha Noi's unemployment rate has nearly doubled in the last two years and is forecast to be even higher this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – The votive object market is heating up as the Land Genie and Kitchen God Day and the Lunar New Year are nearing. People now tend to buy hi-tech products to offer to their ancestors this year.

Senior leaders pay New Year visits; NA Chairman meets Mexican legislators; Ireland, Vietnam to cooperate in youth education; Bar Association urged to sharpen capacity; Vietnam highly values UNICEF’s assistance  

Search engine giant Google has officially picked CleverAds Joint Stock Co as its Google AdWords Premier SME Partner – its first high-level partner in Vietnam.

The National Finance Supervision Council has released the report on the economic prospect in 2012-2013, designing three economic scenarios for 2012.

The Emir of the State of Qatar, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, will pay an official visit to Vietnam on January 16-17, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Vietnam is not experiencing a banking crisis, despite a quick increase in non-performing loans recently and plans to restructure the troubled sector, the central bank governor, Nguyen Van Binh, said on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – This year HCM City will need nearly VND47 trillion ($2.3 billion) to implement key projects, such as the urban rail route No. 1, the Saigon 2 bridge, ten bridges on Provincial Road 9, etc.

Ten Vietnamese crewmembers who are in the custody of Thai authorities after their ship sank due to a collision with a royal Thai Navy boat will be tried for allegedly violating Thailand’s territorial waters, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry said.

The year 2012 is believed to be one more difficult year of the national economy. Therefore, where to inject money in proves to be an inextricable question for many investors.

VietNamNet Bridge – Since domestic tours are getting more and more expensive, Vietnamese travelers now tend to go abroad on Tet holiday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The plan on turning Vietnam into an information technology (IT) power was kicked off last year. However, nothing important has been done so far.

VietNamNet Bridge – It is not the ‘fashion’ but it is no longer unusual for rich men on the Vietnamese stock market to own a football club.

A five-kilometre long illegal road has been constructed in order to facilitate the destruction of a protected forest in Quang Ngai Province’s Bac Tra My District.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to rapidly settle the TV right dispute between VFF, AVG Group and VPF to quickly serve football fans of the Super League 2012.

Scientists announced the discovery of the most distant galaxy cluster ever seen in the early universe at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society held in Austin, Texas.

It’s now the time for universities to sprint to look for more lecturers to meet the new requirements of the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).

Protection of citizens will continue to be one of the important tasks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in 2012, said MoFA spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi at the ministry’s regular meeting in Hanoi on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The high tax rate of 40,000 dong per kilo on nylon bags has prompted seafood export processing companies to think of importing bags.

VietNamNet Bridge – An advanced electronic customs clearance procedure system has been experimentally implemented for inbound and outbound cargo ships at the HCM City Port from Wednesday,