The gold and non-dollar deposit interest rates have been escalating in recent days, signaling a new interest rate race among banks. Experts have warned that the race will distort the monetary market and raise new risks for the banking system.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Performing Art Agency has permitted Phan Thi Mo, who was in the top five the Miss Vietnam World 2010 pageant, to participate in Miss Earth 2011. Mo will go to the Philippines today, November 24.

VietNamNet Bridge – The orchestra plays as a large crowd of people listen attentively, seemingly oblivious to the street noise and roaring traffic that can also be heard at this outdoor concert.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tens of paintings by five Vietnamese talented painters are displayed at an exhibition entitled “Hanoi Dreams” in Toronto, Canada.

Japanese businesses are flocking to Vietnam to seek investment opportunities in the wave of relocating production bases to other countries to avoid high labor cost and natural calamities.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Environment Administration is drafting a set of regulations to prepare for the opening of a network to boost communication about the environment.

VietNamNet Bridge – The People's Court in Can Tho City on Tuesday sentenced four members of a kidney-trading ring to prison for five to six years each on charges of "organising people to flee the country".

ASEM high-level forum on employment and social policy; Police seize bike racers using fishing nets; Mekong River Commission hands HYCOS over to Vietnam

“Rice is our advantage and the selection of history. Vietnam doesn’t produce rice to ensure world food security but for our country,” said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development at the question and answer session on November 23.

Wall Street sell-offs continued on Wednesday before the Thanksgiving Holiday, as investors apparently found no reason to buy in the market amid a batch of tepid economic data and European woes.

The death toll from the latest round of clashes which started over the weekend between protestors and the police across Egypt has risen to 35, the country's health ministry said Wednesday.

After the disappointed failure at the Southeast Asian Games 26, the founding committee of the Vietnam Professional Football JS Company (VPF) has made some significant decisions.

VietNamNet Bridge – Korean pilot Kim Tae Hun, who is suspected to use fake license, is now working for an airline in Laos, after quitting Vietnam Airlines.

VietNamNet Bridge – Carrying luggage of up to 40kg on papooses to the peak of 3,143m Fansipan mount is the job of native porters, who assist tourists to conquer the highest mountain in Indochina.

VietNamNet Bridge – The runner-up of the first-season Vietnam’s Next Top Model will participate in the Elite Model Look World 2011 in Shanghai, China.

After several years of research, the Cuc Phuong Primates Rescue Center has confirmed that a Melogale badger that was found in Vietnam’s Cuc Phuong National Park in 2006 is a new species, named Melogale cucphuongensis sp. nov.

Businesses once rushed to list their shares on the bourse, believing that the stock market is a good channel for them to mobilize capital. However, nowadays, when the VN Index fell by 22 percent, they have changed their mind.

Whether to use the rod in education has become a controversial topic.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said here Wednesday that Saif al-Islam, the captured son of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will be tried inside Libya.

Decades of improper management at a pesticide storehouse in the heart of central Nghe An Province's Tho Son Commune has left residents living in fear of the impact pesticides have on their health and environment.