VietNamNet Bridge - The Personal Income Tax (PIT) Law is likely to be amended in 2011 with aims to lowering the burden on taxpayers all over the country.

Bulgaria will rebuild the barb fence along the border with Turkey to stop foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) coming from that country, a senior official said here on Monday.

Whether the 11th National Party Congress succeeds or not depends on each delegate’s responsibility and intelligence, said Nong Duc Manh, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC).

VietNamNet Bridge – At the first meeting of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam on January 18 afternoon, Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong, 67, National Assembly Chairman, was elected as the Party Chief.

Professor Dao Trong Thi said that it is necessary to change the current structure and expectations of management, saying that a good management will encourage lecturers to conduct scientific research.

VietNamNet Bridge – Commercial banks are rushing to issue cards to individual clients, considering this the effective tool to approach clients.

VietNamNet Bridge – As the lunar New Year (Tet) approaches, some suburban villages of Hanoi are very busy making banh chung (square glutinous rice cake) to serve the market.

The tourism industry targets to welcome 5.3 million foreign and 30 million local visitors this year, with a turnover of more than VND110 trillion ($5.5 billion), accounting for 4.6 percent of Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Steve Jobs, Apple Inc's chief executive officer (CEO), on Monday announced that he is taking another medical leave, raising new concerns about the company's future.

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign companies have long dominated the local life insurance market, and the trend shows no signs of reversing, according to data from the Association of Vietnamese Insurers (AVI).

VietNamNet Bridge - General director of the state-run Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation (Petrolimex), Bui Ngoc Bao warns the petroleum market could soon be in a mess unless state management agencies intervened with suitable remedies.

Nguyen Tien Thoa, Director of the Price Management Agency, the arm of the Ministry of Finance (MOF), thinks that the prompt price marketization may kill the industries and sectors.

Around 65 percent of wells in Vietnam’s Red River Delta contain arsenic, manganese, selenium and barium at unsafe levels, posing a serious health threat to about 7 million people, according to a research done by Swiss scientists.

VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition entitled “Treasures of the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam” will be held at the Korean National Royal Museum in Seoul, South Korean until February 2.

VietNamNet Bridge - The European Union's tariffs on leather shoes imported from Viet Nam and China will expire at the end of March, following a decision to do away with the duties.

The bad weather and natural calamities around the globe combined with the unpredictable rice stocks are the main factors that affect the rice market and rice export prices in the first months of 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – Experts believe that the expected lower inflation rate in 2011 would bring opportunities to securities investors.

Error products have slipped out from the factories in China and then reproduced into low-cost products to be sold dirt cheap at the border area markets, or even in big cities in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ho Xuan Hung has affirmed that Vietnam’s agriculture greatly benefits from WTO membership.

The list of 175 official members out of 218 candidates of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam was made public at 10 am, January 18. The nine members of the 10th Politburo was re-elected.