VietNamNet Bridge - Prof. Dr. Ngo Bao Chau, last year's Fields Medal winner, has been appointed Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite the falling VN Index and decreasing stock prices, a lot of stake trade deals have still been made on the OTC market. Stock buyers are the ones who put high expectations on Vietnam’s stock market.

Stock brokerages would be allowed to conduct margin trading under a proposed regulation currently being drafted by the State Securities Commission, although margins would be limited to a ratio of 30:70.

VietNamNet Bridge - The fifth biennial Sea Festival 2011 will be held in Nha Trang from June 11-15 with Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago as highlight.

Fruit exports increase 9% per year; Vietnam Airlines plans IPO; Proposal for two airports to service HCM City; Vietnam to repay $4 bln debt in 2011; Asia Pacific leads property market

VietNamNet Bridge – Historical and legal evidences shows indicate Vietnam’s uncontroversial sovereignty of the Hoang Sa Archipelago (Paracel Islands).

VietNamNet Bridge - State Bank of Viet Nam Governor Nguyen Van Giau, in a press briefing on Friday, urged banks to take seriously the 20-per-cent ceiling for credit growth set for this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - When catch sizes started to decrease last year, many fishermen on the southern island of Hon Nghe in the Gulf of Thailand made the switch to fish farming.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Cinema Administration and Cinema Association on March 4 decided to withdraw "Giao Lo Dinh Menh" (Inferno) directed by Vietnamese American Victor Vu from the list of nominees for the Golden Kite Award 2010.

Vietnamese businessmen do not lack hearts or money, but they still rarely consider lending a hand to support Vietnam’s academic art. As the result, Vietnam’s cultural development has to rely on foreign support.

VietNamNet Bridge - Forest areas in Luc Yen District in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai have suffered significant damage due to illegal foraging for the local speciality - bitter bamboo sprouts.

Dell offers new services to business customers;  VinaPhone kicks off music sharing service; VinaCapital invests in mobile service; IBM enhances information management portfolio

To ease power shortage and boost foreign currency supplies, the Foreign Investment Agency has suggested the Government stimulate capital disbursement from FDI projects that have small energy needs, rather than electricity-hungry heavy industries.

Power turbine to start ahead of schedule; Two teenage sisters rescued from brothel; Protected gorillas in village confiscated; Training provided for rural workers; Disease-causing organisms found in Can Tho’s food

The 3D version of "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" will be released on Feb. 10,  2012, according to Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox.

Ministry releases table of new electrical rates; Farmers abandon tra breeding due to high costs; Paper industry expands capacity;  Banks ordered to prioritise lending for industry, farms; Agricultural exports rise 50%

VietNamNet Bridge - Public universities are stepping up efforts to market themselves to high-school students many of whom will take national admission tests in July.

VietNamNet Bridge - Since the beginning of March, businesses have been stockpiling one million tons of rice at the behest of the Vietnam Food Association (VFF), at a minimum price of VND5,000 per kilogram. 

Formula distributors and producers have announced 20 percent price increases for nearly all kinds of their products. Meanwhile, experts believe that a three or five percent price increase would be enough to bring substantial profit to them.

VietNamNet Bridge - Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai told a workshop in Hanoi on March 4 that the annual budget for climate change had reached trillions of Vietnamese dong (hundreds of millions of USD).