Vietnam Idol 2010 Uyen Linh and senior pop star Thanh Lam were nominated for the Dedication Award 2010, in addition to three male singers Tung Duong, Duc Tuan and Ha Anh Tuan.

The government will make amendments to the Law on Personal Income Tax to make it appropriate to the current situation in which the prices of all essential goods have increased.

Many small businesses and individuals are unable to access bank loans at the moment, especially when the lending interest rates are sky high and the requirements set by banks on borrowers are very strict.

VietNamNet Bridge – Businesses are continuing to pollute the environment because fines are too low, Viet Nam Productivity Centre has said.

VietNamNet Newspaper Editor-in-chief Nguyen Anh Tuan was appointed Vice Chair of the Vietnam Digital Communications Association (VDTA) which was set up in Hanoi on March 2.

After 12 universities now located in the inner city of Hanoi relocate to the suburbs what will the land be used for?

Management agencies have continuously discovered the cases of industrial zones discharging untreated industrial waste into the environment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Women held key roles in agricultural production, from manufacturing and processing to trading, but many still lacked information on food quality and safety, experts said here yesterday, March 2.

A growing trend over the last 10 years is that successful enterprises, including Vietnamese leading private enterprises, sooner or later jumped into other business fields of real estate, finance or banking, diverging from their core business fields.

VietNamNet Bridge – The rubella epidemic reached a high point last month, and may last until next month, said deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases Nguyen Hong Ha.

Fifteen doctors of the Hue Central Hospital successfully transplanted a heart to a 26-year-old man in a five-hour operation, which ended at 3 am of March 2.

Ten female painters from Hanoi and Saigon will introduce their latest 100 paintings at the “Colors of Hanoi-Saigon” exhibition in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi is keen to learn from the experience of the Japanese prefecture of Fukuoka in environmental protection, urban planning and management.

VietNamNet Bridge – The commune in Kien Giang Province's Go Quao District is about to harvest 3,780ha of the winter-spring crop and the average yield is an impressive seven tonnes per hectare,

Small mobile networks are trying to increase their numbers of subscribers by launching service packages that fit the pockets of popular people. However, they have been warned that it will be not easy to do so.

VietNamNet Bridge – Top female Vietnamese tennis player Nguyen Thuy Dung, 24, plans to open a tennis academy in Ha Noi in the near future.

VFF seeks new national coach; Can Tho gears up for national students games; Viet Nam invites foreign coaches to train athletes

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged cabinet members to take all necessary measures to curb inflation and bring guest workers back home from Libya.

Leader asks nation to promote NA elections; Luxembourg pledges $58mil in aid; Vietnam-Romania executive bodies to strengthen cooperation; Leader welcomes new envoys

According to local Urdu TV channel Geo, Pakistani Minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti was killed Wednesday morning by Pakistan Taliban for religious reasons.