Thirty three percent of businesses cannot afford the current long term lending interest rates of 12-13 percent and higher. One third of enterprises had their profits decrease in the first quarter of the year, a survey has found.

A latest research has shown that worldwide camera phone sales, driven by fast growing high- tier camera phone market, will top 1 billion units for the first time in 2011.

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced that it has appointed Chris Capossela as chief marketing officer, responsible for the software giant's marketing, advertising and corporate communications.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh, the world’s number 7, has entered the quarter-final round at the Yonex Australian Grand Prix Gold after defeating Li Yu from China at the third round on April 7 in Melbourne.

VietNamNet Bridge - A radioactive cloud from Japan’s quake-damaged Fukushima I nuclear power plant is spreading to Southeast Asia with radiation levels 100 times higher than before, but it is still much lower than danger levels.

VietNamNet Bridge – The anniversary began on April 7 on Nghia Linh Mount in Lam Thao district, in the northern midland province of Phu Tho to commemorate Hung Kings’ dead anniversary.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to raise the import tariffs in order to control the importation of luxury goods which still have been flocking to Vietnam in big quantities, despite efforts by the ministry to curb the trade deficit.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many shops in Hanoi are still posting prices in dollars and collecting dollars from sales, ignoring the regulations on prohibiting sellers to post prices in foreign currencies.

Experts have pointed out the network security in Vietnam has become increasingly problematic because businesses and agencies do not make appropriate investments to protect their websites.  

VietNamNet Bridge – The number of university students, who follow advanced training programs, has been decreasing year after year. The training costs are 10 times higher than the costs of normal programs.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though the four-day April 30 holiday is long, many Hanoians would rather stay at home rather than taking tours, because they have decided to curb expenses in the price storm.

There are many signs showing that the changes in the Philippines’ rice import policy just aims to create a competition among rice exporters which will force prices down, according to Nguyen Dinh Bich, a well known trade expert in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology was established in Ha Noi in 1987 to preserve the cultural heritage of the nation's 54 ethnic groups.

A former U.S. congressman mediating in Libya said on Thursday that the general thrust of the top Libyan echelon is they want peace and want to find a way out of the ongoing conflict.

VietNamNet Bridge – For nearly 20 years, farmer Vu Lap has collected old artefacts.

NATO's planes flew over Ajdabiyah when doctors in the town's hospital were doing surgery on an anti-government militant.

VietNamNet Bridge – The new Food Safety Law has left many food companies perplexed over where to go for their documents when the Law takes effect in July.

German economy will increase 2.8 percent in 2011, according to a joint report issued by Germany's leading economic institutes on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – “I don’t create clothes, I create dreams”. That is slogan of Vietnamese American fashion designer named Phuong My.

A fire took place in a garment workshop of Vietnamese people near the Cherkizovo market in Moscow, Russia, in the early morning of April 7, killing four Vietnamese people.