While the interbank interest rate has been decreasing sharply with the overnight interest rate down to 8.5 percent per annum, the deposit interest rates applied by commercial banks are still sky high.

The boom of Vietnam’s information technology (IT)-communication industry, especially the strong development of the telecommunication sector, has attracted the attention of many of the world’s big investors.

Economists always strive to change monetary policies when they think that it is necessary to do something to foster economic growth and curb inflation. Meanwhile the fiscal policy has sometimes been ignored.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though there has been a sharp decline in the flow of contraband goods from Cambodia into the Mekong Delta, cigarette smuggling remains rampant.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new building that will house the city's Department of Science and Technology will be the first in the city to meet an internationally recognised environmental standard devised for the country

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi's Old Quarter is hosting a tea ceremony and an exhibition of vintage timepieces until Saturday, as well as a discussion of traditional culture in the capital city.

VietNamNet Bridge – Businesses in Ha Noi have launched plans to increase salaries to attract employees in the final months of this year, reported labour management agencies.

VietNamNet Bridge – Police in Thuan Giao Commune, southern Binh Duong Province, have put a baby-sitter in custody for abusing a three-year-old girl pending further investigation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Poorly paid kindergarten teachers are having to fork out on teaching aids because schools lack the funds to properly equip classrooms.

VietNamNet Bridge – The city's Department of Education and Training yesterday asked all high schools in the city to finish self-assessment reports on the quality of education they provide and submit them by the end of next year.

British university students Wednesday staged nationwide protests against planned tuition fee increases during which a police van was damaged in central London.

A ceremony to commemorate those who died in a major stampede three days ago kicked off 7:00 o' clock Thursday morning, with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife Bun Rany Hun Sen attending the event near Diamond Island.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 90 contestants returned to Nha Trang city on November 23 to prepare for the final night on December 4. They each had interesting moments on the beach.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam failed to buy Déclin du jour (Sunset), a painting by exiled Vietnamese emperor Ham Nghi (1872-1943), at a Paris auction this week, the Center for Preservation of Hue Relics said Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – A document to register Ba Be National Park in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance has been approved by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Bilingual food festival held; Dance for AIDS awareness; Ballet tells story of citadel; Royal conferments donate; Publishing house obtains rights to publish Castro's memoirs

VietNamNet Bridge – British photographer Phillip Jones Griffiths's photos of the consequences of the use of dioxin (Agent Orange) during the war in Viet Nam are being shown at HCM City's War Remnants Museum.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam earned two more silver medals at the Asian Games on the 12th day of the competition in Guangzhou, China yesterday, Nov 24.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Transport Ho Nghia Dung confirmed that investors of transport projects in HCM City must bear responsibility for “death” holes on roads.

Earth's largest lakes have been warming during the past 25 years in response to climate change, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Tuesday.