VietNamNet Bridge - Retail petrol prices rose by VND2, 000 per litre on March 29, with A92 petrol increasing to VND21, 300 per litre.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Commercial banks criticize people for the habit of using cash instead of credit cards. However, people argue that the overly high fees prompt them to carry cash instead of cards when traveling abroad.

HCM City Youth Union has made three national records on the occasion of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s 80th anniversary, March 26.

Food products that are imported from Japan will be tested randomly at local radioactive testing centers and nuclear laboratories in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Science and Technology on March 28 announced that a local observing station detected radioactive substance in the atmosphere but as the content is very limited, it poses no health hazards.

VietNamNet Bridge – Veterans and members of the US-based Madison Quakers charity organization on March 27 evening played violin, flute, guitar and mandolin to raise funds for Agent Orange victims in the central province of Quang Ngai.

VietNamNet Bridge – The people who independently stand for the 13th National Assembly election total 81, from 21 provinces and cities.

No big welcome, just a normal hotel room with two windows, no filming or direct broadcasting the show are among the requests of Bob Dylan when for when he comes to Vietnam to sing in HCM City on April 10.

Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang told the National Assembly last week that the power supply problems would worsen in the coming months, especially in May, the peak of the dry season.

Disbursement of foreign direct investment in March reached US$1.39 billion, the highest level since the beginning of the year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) of the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Only 46 percent of enterprises use email in their work, more than 50 percent of enterprises do not use software in human resource, wage and sales management, and only 20 percent of enterprises have their own websites.

Restructuring capital, to focus on the key business fields, choosing to provide services that need less capital and cutting down financial investments are what many enterprises are doing to survive.

Vietnam has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to show its beautiful landscapes on famous television channels CNN or BBC, or to advertise on taxis in London. However, Vietnam remains an unknown and hidden charm to foreign travelers.

Highly toxic plutonium has been found in soil in five separate locations at the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in northeast Japan, which has caused global concern about the growing severity of the crisis at the leaking plant.

VietNamNet Bridge – During its tour to France and German to perform “Faces”, Big Toe hiphop dance troupe won four awards.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Science and Technology has said that a trace of radioactive iodine-131 was detected in Vietnam ’s air, but the amount is low and does not pose a threat to human health.

Tickets for Apple's annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2011 have already been sold out ten hours after the event was announced Monday, according to media reports.

VietNamNet Bridge – Seventeen Vietnamese aircraft maintenance engineers of the budget airline Jetstar Pacific, for the first time, have got Cat B practice licenses (VAR66 Licenses).

Educators have warned that Vietnam will not have enough preschool teachers in the near future, since working teachers want to give up their jobs, while high school graduates do not want to become teachers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s artists will perform in “Japan – the Sharing” show tonight, March 30, to raise fund for Japanese victims of quakes and tsunamis.