The WTO membership brings big advantages to Vietnam, including the exports increases and higher foreign investment. However, for many industries it also means big difficulties.

Every time when the consumer price index CPI increased, policy makers hastily concluded this was the high inflation and hurriedly tightened the monetary policies and raised interest rates.

VietNamNet Bridge - The millennium-old northern folk music genre of Ca tru is making a comeback after decades of neglect, with more and more young girls training to become dao nuong, or professional singers.

Being obsessed by Vietnamese disadvantaged children, a professor of history from the US has devoted her assets and her life to provide vocational training to disabled childrenand to help heart patients in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam hopes to earn $4 billion this year from wooden furniture exports. However, producers are worried stiff because the input material prices keep increasing.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese soccer players have discovered facebook as an interesting means of keeping in touch with fans. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Three central provinces are planning to set up a joint representative office in Japan as part of a program to attract tourists from there.

VietNamNet Bridge – Director of the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment Do Nhat Hoang spoke to Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper about disbursement of foreign direct investments.

VietNamNet Bridge – Overweight and obesity rates have increased steadily among adolescents in HCM City, and require swift intervention to change dietary intake, physical activities, sedentary behaviour, and lifestyle habits, a study has found.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though the Vietnamese music industry has not been very successful this last year it has still managed to stay in the news with public performances and competitions and plenty of celebrity scandals.

Government bonds to be allocated before mid February; Forestry programmes promote sustainability by market incentives; Year-end discounts spark fashion shopping frenzy; Dinh Vu IZ welcomes first 2011 investment

Dr Nguyen Van Khai, known in Vietnam as the “Ozone man” lives in a 70 square meter house in a densely populated quarter of Hanoi, where he grows vegetables and raises fowl. He believes that he is one of the richest man on the planet.

On December 30, the Government issued Decree No 119/2010/ND-CP amending Decree 105/2006/ND-CP of September 22, 2006, guiding implementation of a number of articles in the Law on Intellectual Property.

VietNamNet Bridge – Construction Ministry technical infrastructure administration director Nguyen Hong Tien spoke with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper about a proposal to include installation and maintenance costs in clean water fees.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Tran Nam talked with Viet Nam News about social housing and the establishment of a housing fund for future projects.

VietNamNet Bridge - Given Vietnam’s better economic indicators in 2010, securities companies expect a brighter prospect for the stock market this year, with most saying the main index can hit 650 points despite macroeconomic uncertainties.

VietNamNet Bridge – Unhygienic food is now a big problem in Vietnam. Some rich people are willing to pay a lot of money to have meals at luxurious restaurants to have safe food.

Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Nguyen Van Giau talked to the press about his life and shared his thoughts about the banking operation in 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – A market has been operating on the Da Trang mountain pass by Muong ethnic people for more than ten years. This is the place where ethnic minority people sell products they collect from the jungle.

VietNamNet Bridge – Narrow and crooked houses in Hanoi are considered “urban waste”. Though the local government has banned the construction of such houses, they are mushrooming along newly built roads in the capital city.