Sixteen large banks yesterday signed an agreement to keep their deposit interest rates under 14 per cent for one-month terms - and 6 per cent for non-term rates.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi is expected to issue preservation regulations for colonial-era French-style villas as the city's old buildings undergo assessment, a top planning official has said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The debate about model of the Vietnam Professional Football (VPF) has been ignited when Hoang Anh Gia Lai FC’s Chair Doan Nguyen Duc protested the Vietnam Football Federation’s (VFF) management over the VPF.

A shallow undersea quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale rocked tourist resort of Bali province of Indonesia on Thursday, injuring at least 43 people, six of whom were serious and damaging buildings, officials said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Around 140 seals of the Nguyen Dynasty are displayed at an exhibition which opened in Hanoi on October 12.

VietNamNet Bridge – Some families of Vietnamese workers in Saudi Arabi could not contact  their relatives for half of a year. It turns out that these workers are in jail while Vietnamese manpower exporting firms concealed information.

The death toll from a Wednesday shooting in Southern California has climbed to eight after two people died in hospital, while one person is still in a critical condition.

The Prime Minister has nominated Deputy PM Vu Van Ninh as the new head of the Steering Board for Restructuring the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin), replacing Nguyen Sinh Hung, who is now National Assembly Chairman.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Cinema Center will put into operation a four dimension (4D) project room later this month.

VietNamNet Bridge – Most of the following photos were taken by photographer Werner Schulze in March 1973 in Hanoi after the Paris Peace Accords were signed, putting an end to direct US military involvement in the Vietnam War.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two film projects by female director Hoang Diep were introduced at the Busan International Film Festival 2011, the leading film fest in Asia.

The hot credit growth, plus the bad credit management are the two reasons behind the increases of the bad debts.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 13.4km Vo Van Kiet Boulevard, which is the most modern road in HCM City, has become the home for vendors and a garbage ground.

Thay Thim festival attracts 200,000; Award winning photo captures Ca Tru singing; Austrian musicians to perfom in Hanoi; Celebrate Oktoberfest at Windsor Plaza Hotel; Vietnam to host Culture Day in Ukraine next month

The embankment of Dau Tieng Lake upstream the Saigon River could be crumbling under the pressure of big sand-carrying trucks running on the dam, and in the worst scenario the situation can become a catastrophe, a source said.

Soon after making landfall in central Philippines, ‘Banyan’ storm entered the East Sea and weakened into a tropical low pressure system, but expected to intensify into a storm once again. 

Businesses and organisations themselves need to raise awareness of software ownership nowadays as intellectual property rights are increasingly upheld in the knowledge economy and becoming a global concern.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan yesterday, Oct 12, commended Viet Nam National University's applied research and training university, saying it should be replicated nationwide.

Children to play bigger role in reducing risks; Road crashes kill, injure 1,000 in city; Doctors’ panel tests woman who aged overnight

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's under-23 football team will meet Myanmar in the opener of the international VFF-Eximbank Cup tournament at My Dinh National Stadium next Wednesday.