VietNamNet Bridge – Slow to install a solid waste processing system, Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s biggest waste dumper, still buries most of its 7,000 tons of solid waste every day.

VietNamNet Bridge – The energy spent by scientists to create new varieties cannot be compensated well: they can sell the discovered varieties at just hundreds of millions of dong.

VietNamNet Bridge - The fifth Sea Festival 2011, themed “Nha Trang – The Sea Rendezvous” opened in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on June 11.

A twin bomb attack at a supermarket in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar late Saturday night has so far claimed 35 lives and injured over 100 others, said local officials on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's top middle-distance runner, Truong Thanh Hang, won gold at the Borsig Track and Field Tournament held in Germany over the weekend.

VietNamNet Bridge - Businesses are arguing current personal income tax rates towards foreigners are unjustified.

Sales of businesses in information technology last year reached VND330 trillion (US$16.5 billion), an equivalent of around 10 percent of GDP, said Nguyen Minh Son, head of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s department of planning and finance. 

Veteran Academy Award winning-actor Morgan Freeman was honored with the American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award on Thursday, capping a career which saw the actor garnering an Oscar,

VietNamNet Bridge – Low wages and high goods prices have prompted workers to quit their jobs to seek better jobs which can bring the income high enough to cover the increased expenses.

Last year was one of the brightest years on record for Viet Nam's hotels, with the number of domestic and foreign tourists reaching a new high, according to results of a survey released by Grant Thornton Vietnam.

The White House on Saturday said the death of the mastermind of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania is a "huge setback to al-Qaida."

VietNamNet Bridge - A jazz music night featuring Italian pianist Eric Legnini will take place at the French Culture Center at L’Espace in Hanoi on June 14. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam targets developing an environmentally friendly transport system by 2030 and to control pollution caused by road, railway, inland waterway, marinetime and airline transport.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health has made public, the names of many products that contain DEHP carcinogen in Vietnam, including syrup imported from Taiwan and candies from the Philippines.

Many commercial banks are demanding the Central Bank set different credit growth caps for different banks, as some of the bigger ones are able to offer more loans to the production sector without passing the credit growth ceiling of 20 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge – Half of a year opened to the public, the $15 million Hoa Binh Park is neglected by people.

Tightening monetary policies including high interest rate to curb inflation have strongly impacted the country’s export as May export growth was a mere 0.8%, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade in its regular online meeting on Monday.

Tuoi Tre conducts an interview centering around the June 9 incident in which a Chinese fishing boat intentionally rammed into exploration cables of the Viking II vessel when it was conducting normal activities on Vietnamese sea territory.

The performing arts scene has expanded rapidly in recent years with an increasing volume of young talents achieving success. But the action has been confined to modern art forms, with traditional forms like tuong being ignored.

The license to exploit titanium has been described as the “screen” for illegal titanium exports, while the loosened management is the “passport” for titanium to cross the border gates.