Honour for 100 businesswomen; $4mil to be invested in waste disposal; Innovation Day top prize will double to $30,000; Swine flu claims one life in HCM City; Large car park to ease Ha Noi problem

Thirty-seven choirs from eight countries will participate in the first international chorus festival in Vietnam, which will be held in the ancient town of Hoi An on March 16-20.

The ancient turtle at Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake is anticipated to be brought ashore for treatment this weekend and the treatment may take two years, said Hanoi Department of Science and Technology’s chief Le Xuan Rao on March 7.

VietNamNet Bridge – On March 4, the first day of receiving applications from self-nominated candidates to the next National Assembly (NA) election (March 4), application forms were granted to eight people in HCM City and four in Hanoi.  

The special music show to commemorate the 10th anniversary of composer Trinh Cong Son’s death will be organized in HCM City on March 18 and in Hanoi on March 25.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) said it would give priority to foreign candidates and currently the federation has had a list of ten foreign coaches to replace Henrique Calisto.

VietNamNet Bridge – British coach Simon McMenemy, who brought the national football team of the Philippines to the semi-finals of the AFF Cup for the first time last year, has joined Vietnamese club Dong Tam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The modern markets located on golden land plots in the center of the capital city cannot attract small merchants and customers. Why?  

Vietnam is striving to have one million information technology (IT) workers by 2020,  three times higher than the current level, 80 percent of whom must meet international standards. The task is burdening the education and training sector.

Vietnamese students in foreign countries are struggling to live and keep studying since everything is getting more expensive.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will add medicine to its list of price-stabilised essential goods, said the deputy chairwoman of the municipal People's Committee.

Vietnamese Prof. Ngo Bao Chau and French Prof. Annik Suzor Weiner were each conferred an honorary doctoral degree by the Hanoi National University in a solemn ceremony held in the capital today.

VietNamNet Bridge – Five children from the central province of Quang Ngai were operated on for free in Seoul today to treat cleft lips and palates by doctors at the Chung Ang University Hospital (CAUH).

HTML clipboard The Chinese currency Renminbi (RMB), or the yuan, on Monday strengthened to an all-time high of 6.5651 per U.S. dollar, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.

The United States and its allies are considering a number of options to be taken against the Libyan government, but sending in ground troops is not "top of the list," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday.

At around 1 o’clock in the morning of March 9 (Vietnam time), a Vietnam Airlines aircraft will leave Tunisia’s Djerba airport with the last of the Vietnamese workers evacuated from Libya.

The surveillance video that allegedly showed American actress Lindsay Lohan stealing a 2,500 U.S. dollars necklace in a jewelry store will be posted online, according to a foreign media report Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Football Federation chairman Nguyen Trong Hy supports the use of local coaches for the national and Olympic teams but most Vietnamese candidates say they are not ready for the job.

VietNamNet Bridge – ADSL service now has a new redoubtable rival – FTTH service.

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