Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a member of the African Union (AU) panel on Libya, said here Tuesday that the African Union (AU) was determined to reach a cease-fire in Libya to "preserve the interests of the Libyan people."

VietNamNet Bridge - HCMC, the country’s biggest tourism center, last Saturday announced the best travel firms, hotels, travel websites, shopping venues and tourism service providers in the city.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Tuesday that although Japan has raised the severity level of the accident at the Fukushima No.1 plant, the crisis is quite different from the 1986 Chernobyl accident.

VietNamNet Bridge – Experts said there was a new trend in the country's continuing urbanisation process – a move away from city centres to the suburbs to enjoy the fresher surroundings there.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City taxi drivers use inner city roads as parking lots even at the risk of being fined, worsening a congestion that is already constricting many parts of the City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam needs more funding to clear unexploded ordnance (UXO) from hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, and will continue to seek it from local and international sources, a senior official has said.

Manchester United saw off Chelsea 2-1 at Old Trafford on Tuesday, grabbing a UEFA Champions League semifinal berth in 3-1 on aggregate.

VietNamNet Bridge - Site clearance woes are proving thorns in the side of billion-dollar foreign-invested steel projects.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of thousands of hectares of coffee plants in the Central Highlands have withered and dried from lack of water.

VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time, Viet Nam will have four representatives in the main round of the Asian Badminton Championship, which kicks off in Sichuan City, China, on Tuesday.

Vietnam revolution history on display in Ha Giang;  Binh Duong TV to make film on Vietnam’s highlights; Hanoians to see real cherry blossoms at festival;  Hanoi to host Vietnam reading festival 

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts have called for the development of the country's logistics and maritime services to make the economy more competitive and boost global integration.

President offers sympathies to Belarus after blast; India's ‘Heading East' policy highlights Viet Nam; Vietnam, India seek to boost strategic partnership; VN calls for retention of ASEAN’s central role

Agribank Financial Leasing Company No.2, a subsidiary of the state-owned Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, made a loss of VND3 trillion (US$143.3 million) in 2009, the State Audit of Vietnam has reported.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam had performed as the best tourism market in the region in 2010 with the number of foreign arrivals recording a year-on-year increase of 40 percent, according to Business Monitor International (BMI).

VietNamNet Bridge – Government ministries and agencies that own and manage companies in HCM City must take steps to penalise those who violate environmental regulations, industry insiders have said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many businesses announced that they would raise their retail prices early this year due to the increases in energy, input costs, stronger dollars and high lending interest rates.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Cherry-blossom or Genki Festival 2011 will take place in Hanoi on April 16-17, aiming at bringing Japanese culture closer to Vietnamese and enhancing the 40-year relations (1973-2013) between the two countries.

Tokyo stocks plunged on Tuesday, with the key Nikkei stock index falling 1.69 percent as Japan's raising the severity of its nuclear crises to maximum level dampened investor sentiment whilst a strong yen dented exporter- related issues.

The Government should support sustainable development of the coffee industry with preferential loans for exporters and those who purchase coffee for storage, says Viet Nam Coffee and Cocoa Association.