Viet Nam has one of the highest rates of willingness, at 68 per cent, to endure short-term pain that may arise due to focus on renewable energies, a study by auditing and consulting firm Grant Thornton has found.

VietNamNet Bridge – High lending rates and surging prices for production input materials had led to a rising unemployment rate in HCM City this month, according to the City's Association of Enterprises.

VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 500 volunteers from HCM City and Vung Tau city cleaned up Thuy Van beach in Vung Tau on September 11. This is the most crowded beach in the city.

VietNamNet Bridge – At the ceremony to review V-League 2011, Chairman of Hanoi ACB FC Nguyen Duc Kien, strongly criticized the corrupt refereeing and cover-up of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF).

HCM City hosts Lower Mekong Initiative Disaster Management workshop; 4 more die in central region floods; Taiwan firm gives workers vile Mid-Autumn cakes; Vietnamese arrested for immigration racket

Bad business performance has forced many securities companies to sell stakes to foreigners over the last four years. However, it is getting more and more difficult to find buyers nowadays.

The chief and vice chief of the Vietnam Cinema Agency have submitted their resignations to the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, following strong protests from the movie industry about the alleged embezzlement of $2 million.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mrs. Nguyen Phuong Nga, chief of the Information and Press Department cum spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been appointed as Deputy Foreign Minister.

One year after the Ministry of Inform-ation and Communications issued a policy based on tightening promotion activities, domestic mobile phone service suppliers are duelling to attract farmers, students and fishermen from remote areas.

VietNamNet Bridge – The vice chief of the Steering Board for Anti-corruption of Can Tho City has to explain to the local Inspection Committee why his name and position was on the cover of his son’s wedding invitation.

The dong lending interest rates have been decreasing after the central bank showed its determination to slash interest rates, while the dollar tends to increase slightly. However, dollar loans remain more attractive in the eyes of businesses.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local officials of the upper-stream provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have been ordered to intensify inspections of dykes and sluice gates to protect people and crops from floods.

Local manufacturing enterprises are struggling to liquidate their output as inventories of various kinds of industrial products are piling up quickly, while consumption and investment has dipped due to tough economic conditions.

The Nikkei index tumbled by more than two percent Monday to end at its lowest level since April 2009, weighed down by renewed worries about European debt problems and the global economy.

Kenyan authorities have confirmed that at least 75 people were burned to death while 118 others who were seriously injured have been hospitalized after a fuel pipeline burst into flames in Nairobi's fuel depot.

A new Libya will become a country with law, government institution and welfare, and Islamism will be the main source of the country's legislation, Chairman of Libya's National Transitional Council Mustafa Abdel Jalil said

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese soprano Ha Pham Thang Long will perform in a presentation of the Requiem by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi at the Ha Noi Opera house this week.

The festival Nghinh Ong is organized annually in HCMC’s Can Gio District and this year the social and cultural event kicked off in the coastal town of Can Thanh on Friday with a Vietnamese goods fair.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has applied some measures to “untie” car imports, but the car market remains gloomy. Auto dealers now focus on selling the cars they imported before, while they dare not place new import orders.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung left Ha Noi today, Sep 13, for an official two-day visit to Indonesia at the invitation of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.