Though investors can see clearly that the demand for children’s leisure centers is very high, and that the market has great potentials to develop, they still keep hesitant to inject money in the field.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam finished seventh out of 10, with nine points at the third Women's World Chess Team Championship in Turkey.

VietNamNet Bridge – South Korean music trio F-sharp will join Vietnamese singers in a Friendship Melody music show tonight, Dec 29, at the Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theatre, 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street in Ha Noi.

A latest report from the Conference Board on Tuesday showed confidence among U.S. consumers rose to the highest level in eight months in December, suggesting American consumers were more upbeat about the economic outlook

VietNamNet Bridge – Incorrect labels were a feature of two thirds of inspected electrical products, according to Ministry of Science and Technology's chief inspector Tran Minh Dung.

Vietnam, Laos and Thailand have agreed to boost geo-economic axis cooperation in their triangle development area.

China started to run its own satellite positioning system, Beidou, on Tuesday as the country climbed the global tech ladder and challenged the monopoly of the West.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Sai Gon River and other rivers in HCM City have become more polluted because of increasing levels of waste-water from household and industrial waste.

VietNamNet Bridge – Senior songwriter Vo Thien Thanh is carrying out a so-called “Valentine song of the century” project with 24 Vietnamese pop stars. The song will come out on the night of the Valentine Day 2012.

A second city in East China's Fujian province will require those buying emergency contraceptive pills to show identification, Xiamen Daily reported on Wednesday.

A lot of investors who undertake transport projects under the mode of BOT are facing the risk of incurring loss because the lending interest rates are very high, while it is very difficult to access loan sources.

VietNamNet Bridge – In temperature of 10 degree Celsius, children in the needy commune of Lung Chinh in Meo Vac district, the northern mountain province of Ha Giang, wear very thin clothes, plastic sandals. Their faces and hands are chapped.

Phan Thi Ha Thanh's bronze medal in the vault at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Competition and her qualification for the London Olympics has been selected as "a remarkable event of the year"

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday that babies born in the city in 2009 have the record high life expectancy of 80.6 years, an increase of nearly three years since 2000.

VietNamNet Bridge – Chairman of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) Nguyen Trong Hy believes that the federation will have a new Secretary General within one month, to replace Tran Quoc Tuan.

Vietnamese products centre promoted in Berlin; Hitachi Transport to launch logistics business in Vietnam; HCM City automakers to form park; Vietnam’s exports earn nearly US$95 bil this year; 45 best made-in-Vietnam products awarded  

The country’s state-owned enterprises (SOE) will be put into four categories by 2015, and prohibited from investing in non-core sectors, according to the draft on the SOE restructuring developed by the Ministry of Finance.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese contestant ranked 15th at the Miss Tourism Queen International pageant in China, which closed on December 27. The beauty queen is Kantapat Peeradachainarin from Thailand.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 27, announced the top ten tourism and culture events of the year.

Making wrong decisions in the two first rounds of the National Cup, referees Kieu Viet Hung and Nguyen Quoc Hung will have no chance at the V-League 2012, which has been re-named as Super League, Vietnam’s top professional football event.