VietNamNet Bridge – International Grandmaster Le Quang Liem will compete with fans in an exhibition event ahead of the HD Bank Chess Cup in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City football has shown intentions of putting a stop to its shameful results over the last two years at local football competitions as HCM City and Navibank Sai Gon football clubs have revamped their teams . . .

VietNamNet Bridge – The sixth National Sport Games will officially kick off tomorrow, Dec 25, in the central city of Da Nang with a record 3,300 participants.

VietNamNet Bridge – 101 photos featuring the daily life of General Vo Nguyen Giap by journalist-photographer Tran Tuan are now on the first-ever display at an exhibition in Hanoi celebrating the 66th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army.

VietNamNet Bridge – A schoolgirl from the central city of Da Nang has received the special prize of an international film making competition for Asian children, held in Japan.

By 5 pm of December 23, the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) still had not paid $60 million of debt, the first due installment of the package worth $600 million that Vinashin borrowed in 2008, according to Saigon Tiep Thi newspaper.

HCM City hosts 4th ornamental tree festival 2010; Promoting and preserving Southern amateur music; Vietnam Fashion Fair opens; Artworks on country’s sea and islands go on show; Award given to novel on Lam Son uprising  

VietNamNet Bridge - The local information and communications technology (ICT) hardware industry should invest more in research and development (R&D) to increase competitive capacity and seize more market share, experts have said.

One kilo of gold to make one Sim card; HAGL to sell $200 mln bonds in Singapore; Gold changes little; Oil import taxes cut again as prices rise; Central Highlands gets first bonded warehouse; Ministry hikes rates on State-subsidized loans  

VietNamNet captures the beauty of special pine trees in HCM City one day before the Christmas.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) will postpone the official inauguration of its US$3 billion Dung Quat Oil Refinery by two weeks to January 6.

As the doors of commercial banks are shut tight these days and banks have become more selective in providing loans, small businesses have no other choice than borrowing at exorbitant high interest rates on the black market.

VietNamNet Bridge – The smallest inborn baby in Vietnam – Hoang Thi Man, 700gr at birth – left hospital on December 20 in the happiness of her family and doctors of the Hanoi-based Bach Mai hospital.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese Bkis Bkav Home Plus has surpassed over 50 products to enter the world’s top ten anti-virus software, according to the UK Virus Bulletin magazine.

Scores of foreign investors coveting Vietnam’s tea industry have provided some words of wisdom to ameliorate the country’s tea quality globally.

VietNamNet Bridge - Children born in Vietnam to Vietnamese mothers and foreign fathers will be granted Vietnamese citizenship and supplied birth certificates, assured a judicial official from the Ministry of Justice.

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of wholly-foreign owned retailers in Vietnam remains limited after the Southeast country opened the distribution and retail market under its World Trade Organization commitments in January 2008. 

VietNamNet Bridge – At the end of the year or the wedding season, we would like to invite you to attend a traditional wedding ceremony of Dao quan trang ethnic minority group in Yen Bai a northern mountainous province in Vietnam.

2010 was a year with many “storms” in the gold market. Local newspapers have summarized the most outstanding figures.

VietNamNet Bridge - As jingle bells start chiming, Mövenpick’s hotels in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are packing holiday hampers and putting the final touches on a series of holiday menus.