VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam welcomed nearly 543,000 foreign tourists in February, a year-on-year increase of 21.6 per cent, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO).

"We will honour our commitments to support Vietnam during the last five years of the 10-year Development Partnership Arrangement (2006-2016)", the UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell told VietNamNet.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s first electronic passports are expected to be put in use no sooner than 2013 instead of in 2011 as rumored, the Ministry of Public Security has said in an official note.

The Finance Ministry has no plan to amend the Law on Personal Income Tax to raise the taxable income threshold to ease the strain amid inflation, confirmed Chief of the Ministry Office Nguyen Duc Chi.

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More and more American adults are suffering from a decline in overall sleep duration, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many young people in big cities of Vietnam like Hanoi and HCM City now prefer an “independent life” like young people in western countries.

London's first set of giant Olympic Rings was unveiled at St Pancras International station on Thursday, with 512 days to go to the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games.

VietNamNet Bridge – Even the state officials who release the figures about foreign direct investment (FDI) themselves are not sure about the figures they release.

The Vietnamese business community has agreed that Vietnam needs to join the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) though it well understands that the new agreement will bring both great opportunities and challenges.

VietNamNet’s Kien Trung on March 2 rowed to the Turtle Tower in the mid-Hoan Kiem Lake to shoot these photos about the construction of a new “house” for the legendary turtle.

Public investment has become a hot topic on economic forums, especially when nine delegations of officials on March 8 will start inspection tours to examine public investment projects in localities and economic groups.

People complain that the government's decision to raise the prices of essential goods and the dong devaluation have made CPI increase sharply. However, experts have said that the price increases are part of the plan to curb inflation in 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – Commercial banks are considering applying the latest technologies for security solutions for ATM cards since they are increasingly worried about the rising number of cases of ATM demolition and money theft.

European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet said on Thursday that the ECB may raise interest rates next month due to mounting inflationary pressures.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ticket-vending machines installed in many HCM City buses have become popular, according to the Department of Transport.

The global economy is now expanding after the profound crisis over the last three years, but the recovery is facing several major challenges and risks in the near term, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – It took us half a day by motorbike to reach a small waterway near Uncle Tam Be's home in Tuong Loc, Tam Binh District of the southern province of Vinh Long.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) provinces would upgrade educational facilities to improve school attendance rates, especially for ethnic minorities, the Ministry of Education and Training said Wednesday.