VietNamNet Bridge - This year’s credit crunch started to result in impacts to property firms with weak base, which were forced to sell their projects or acquired by bigger ones. 

Foreign advertisement firms can pocket 7-10 percent of the total turnover of the market, while the remaining big turnover belongs to Vietnamese ad firms and media owners, according to the Advertising Research and Training Institute ARTI.

VN congratulates Thailand on poll; VNA, Prensa Latina sign accords; Asian coastguard chiefs to boost co-operation; UK Prince thanks Vietnamese President for wedding gift

Local authorities admitted that the carpenter’s shops in the localities are causing environmental pollution. However, they said that if the workshops are forced to shut down, they will incur losses, while local residents will lose their jobs.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi's first urban metro line is expected to become operational by the end of 2016, its first geological survey having taken place yesterday, July7.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong cut the ribbon at a ground breaking ceremony for the first private university in northern Hai Duong Province on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – A gala performance from the HCM City Ballet and Symphony Orchestra (HBSO) will grace the stage of the HCM City Opera House tomorrow, July 9.

Dr. Tran Le Bao Ha from the Applied Stem Cell Research Center in the Natural Science University in HCM City recalls how she cried with happiness when she achieved a break-through in her research work in developing stem cells from mice teeth.  

VietNamNet Bridge –The V-League will be back in action this weekend with the so-called 'final match' between two former champions, Song Lam Nghe An and SHB Da Nang at Chi Lang Stadium.

Hundreds of Afghans in Dumanda district of Khost province, some 150 km southeast of capital Kabul, on Thursday staged a protest against the alleged killing of civilians by NATO-led troops.

VietNamNet Bridge - The organizing committee of the National Tourism Year 2012 has chosen the theme Heritage Tourism for the year-long program, and the host province Thua Thien – Hue is preparing itself for the year, an official said.

Despite serious public concerns on coal mining in the Red River Delta, Vietnam's largest mining company still wants to go ahead with mining huge coal reserves in the Red River Delta, one of the most populated agricultural areas in the country. 

At least 29 people were killed in different firing incidents in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, taking death toll of the political and ethnic violence in the city to 65 in the last three days, reported local media.

VietNamNet Bridge – A series of drastic measures have been taken to prevent businesses from going dissolved or bankrupted. The tax incentives initiated by the Ministry of Finance are believed to be very useful.

The Chinese Government newspaper Global Times recently contacted Walden Bello – INQUIRER.net columnist - for an email interview on the Spratly-West Philippine Sea controversy. 

NASA scientists have got the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) announced on Wednesday.

Trai Cup resettlement zone in Ba Hien commune, Binh Xuyen district, the northern province of Vinh Phuc, looks like an urban residential area with asphalt roads, pavements, street lights, tapped water, etc., with over 200 families.

Facebook on Wednesday introduced a new video calling feature powered by Skype and some improvements to the chat designs on the social networking site.

Adhering to a healthy lifestyle, including not smoking, exercising regularly, having a low body weight and eating a healthy diet, appears to lower the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in women,

The number of U.S. people initially applying for unemployment aid last week hit a seven-week low but still remained elevated, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday.