The local airports, which have low operation frequencies, have been a heavy burden on ground service providers.

Lacking energy and wishing to develop clean energy sources, Vietnam has become the attractive destination for foreign clean energy investors.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People's Court yesterday, Sep 25, sentenced a former IT expert at a bank to seven years in jail for stealing money by hacking into his bank's computers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Sea and island resources are being used for immediate benefits that do not ensure stable development, according to tourism experts.

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Saturday they would try their best to back strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth of all members.

VietNamNet Bridge – After being found causing pollution that damages local residents and businesses, the Tan Rai bauxite plant in Lam Dong Province blamed it on “a few workers’ shortcomings,”

Nguyen Hoang Thien and Nikola Milojevic battled it out in the final match of the China Junior 15 – Xiamen 2011 Tennis Championship on Saturday in Xiamen city but the Vietnamese player proved no match for his Serbian opponent.

Up to 30 per cent of domestic enterprises as well as 8 per cent of foreign-invested firms plan to expand operations in Viet Nam, investing US$17.2 million and $21.7 million, respectively.

VietNamNet Bridge – The hand-foot-mouth disease spread rapidly in central and southern provinces last week, forcing many pre-schools to close down as a precaution.

VietNamNet Bridge – Haitang, the fourth tropical storm this year, is forecast to continue to intensify, bringing heavy rain to the central region and northern parts of the Central Highlands during the next few days.

The private Cuu Long Film Studio is working on a historical film about a national hero who led village militia to fight the French colonisers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.

Dioxin contamination at Da Nang Airport would be remediated by 2015, co-chair of the Joint Advisory Committee on Agent Orange Le Ke Son said at yesterday's press conference as the committee concluded its sixth meeting.

Viet Nam's trade deficit in the first nine months of the year reaches US$6.84 billion, equal to 9.7 per cent of the total export turnover, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has reported.

VietNamNet Bridge - On September 24, a century-old tree unexpectedly uprooted and fell on a group of foreign tourists who were waiting for their turn to get on the chutes at the Datanla Waterfall tourist site in Da Lat city, Lam Dong province.

An airplane of Nepal's Buddha Air crashed at Kotdanda of Lalitpur Sunday morning, leaving all the 19 passengers on board dead, local police said.

The Ministry of Home Affairs will propose an increase in the minimum wage for public servants and members of the armed forces to help ensure they can meet basic living needs.

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What will the Government do in order to awake the 500 tons of gold worth more than 20 billion dollars, now lying among people, and turn the gold into a national resource?

Vietnam’s first nuclear power may be unable to start running in 2020 as scheduled, said Dr. Tran Dai Phuc, a senior Vietnamese French nuclear expert who is teaching Vietnam’s key nuclear engineers.

A decommissioned U.S. science satellite fell back to Earth but its precise re-entry time and location remained unknown, the U.S. space agency NASA said Saturday.