VietNamNet Bridge - Development partners pledged US$7.9 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam in 2011 at the end of the two-day Consultative Group (CG) meeting in Hanoi on December 8.

Big Vietnamese gold importers have reassured the public that Hong Kong’s imitation gold cannot enter Vietnam’s market, because they mainly import gold from Switzerland.

State owned banks, which are backed by the State and have powerful financial capability, have been dominating the market for the last many years. However, joint stock banks have been trying to “encroach on state owned banks’ territory”.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese travel firms have just realized that for a long time, they have missed a very potential market – Cambodia. And they are now trying to correct their mistakes.

VietNamNet Bridge – The decision by the Da Nang authorities to reject in-service graduates for employment by state agencies has stirred up the public.

VietNamNet Bridge – Just several days ago, when some banks offered the sky high deposit interest rate of 14 percent per annum, people thought that this would be the peak.

Automobile sales down in November: VAMA; Three-day correction ends today; Coffee industry brews up plans

Vietnam has announced that it will join the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The Vietnamese business community has agreed that Vietnam needs to join the new game in the global integration.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's Con Dao Island has been named as one of the top ten romantic destinations in the world for 2011 by the UK's Lonely Planet magazine.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Wednesday that the insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) had entered into an agreement with the Department of the Treasury,

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a huge and searing-hot planet loaded with an unusual amount of carbon, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Wednesday.

At least 21 people were killed in a collision between 2 passenger trains in Bangladesh's Narsingdi district, 51 kms northeast of capital Dhaka at about 5 p.m. local time Wednesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed a rapid new tuberculosis (TB) test which the UN agency said could revolutionize care and control of the disease, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here Wednesday.

Athens was hit by an hours-long traffic jam on Wednesday and users of train services nationwide faced idle wagons, as public transport system employees staged another 24-hour strike over austerity measures introduced to tackle an acute debt crisis.

VietNamNet Bridge – Bird flu has infected flocks in southern Ca Mau and northern Nam Dinh and central Nghe An provinces.

VietNamNet Bridge – A website designed to link overseas Vietnamese throughout the world was launched yesterday, Dec 8.

VietNamNet Bridge – The selection of priorities to ensure the budget would endanger the investment made in women and gender equality, UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) representative,

Vietnam, France keen on further bilateral cooperation; Regional police forces share training insights; Viet Nam, China conduct joint search and rescue drill; Mongolia defence minister visits VN