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Charity music show planned to raise funds for flood victims

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese singers at home and from abroad will gather in a performance next Tuesday to raise funds for flood victims in the central region.

Flooded schools to reopen soon

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training is mobilising all resources to help inundated schools in the north-central provinces re-open for students as soon as possible.

'Floating Lives' makes splash

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese film Canh Dong Bat Tan (Floating Lives), an adaptation from an award-winning short story by Nguyen Ngoc Tu, is poised to become a box-office hit in HCM City.

Internet subscribers leave – the headache to service providers

How to retain ADSL subscribers is a difficult question for service providers. The problem is that subscribers nowadays change service providers like they change clothes every day.

High inflation remains the biggest threat

It is now clear that the inflation rate for the whole 2010 will be higher than the forecast level. In the last four years, the CPI forecasts have never proved accurate, which raises the problem of the reliability of forecasting and planning.

Foreign jugglers lure local children

VietNamNet Bridge – Lately, teenagers and children have been frequenting the Sunday afternoon circus performance of a foreign entertainment group at Ha Noi Botanical Park.

Capital inflows still keep out Vietnam

The “double deficit”, i.e. the state budget and trade deficits, which lead to high inflation and put pressure on the dong/dollar exchange rate, are the most important factors why foreign capital still does not flow into Vietnam.

Visa procedure and customs information

Most visitors to Vietnam need a visa to enter the country.

Indonesian President shortens Vietnam visit due to tsunami

VietNamNet Bridge – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono shortened his state visit to Vietnam and returned home on October 27 for post-tsunami and earthquake rescue work.

Anti-human trafficking bill goes under the microscope

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies stressed the need for a comprehensive law to combat trafficking, but said the current draft was not detailed enough and would be unfeasible.

General Giap receives 70-year Party badge

VietNamNet Bridge – President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday, Oct 27, presented the 70-year Party membership badge to General Vo Nguyen Giap.

Central man rescued from cave hide-out

VietNamNet Bridge - A man in Quang Nam Province was rescued last week after a harrowing month he spent living in a cave. Dinh Van Huy allegedly lost his way while fleeing a brutal existence as a gold miner.

Investors in VN face ‘challenges, chances'

Viet Nam's investment and investment-management needs will change as it pursues its next five-year development plan as a middle-income country, experts have said at a conference that opened yesterday.

Vietnam football chief dissatisfies local transfer window

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) chairman Nguyen Trong Hy said the transfer price of local footballers is getting far beyond their actual values and thus it is bringing about bad effect to the national football development.

VN film industry yet to embrace market: Director Noyce

VietNamNet Bridge - Phillip Noyce, director of “The Quiet American,” has been back in Vietnam since October 16 for the first Vietnam International Film Festival, eight years after he first came here to direct the film.

Male smoking reaches alarming rate

With almost half (47.4 percent) of adult men smoking or getting involved in other uses of tobacco, Vietnam has been put into the group of countries with extremely high smoking rates among men.

PM vows to boost regional connectivity for investors

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam will join hands with other ASEAN member nations to enhance regional connectivity for investors and companies to do business and make contributions to building the ASEAN Economic Community.

SPORTS IN BRIEF 28/10

Muscleman to defend world title; Colleges vie for football cup; VN rank third in student ping pong; Football tourney tickets go on sale

ASEAN coordination meetings held in Hanoi

VietNamNet Bridge - The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and the 7th Meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council Meeting were held in Hanoi Wednesday to finalise preparations for the 17th ASEAN Summit and related summits.

Son shocks former world champ

VietNamNet Bridge – International Grand Master Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son sent shockwaves through the chess world at the Cap D'Agde Rapid Chess Tournament in France after beating former world champion Russian Anatoly Karpov in his fifth match