Exotic animals are flooding pet shops in Ho Chi Minh City where people see pets as good luck charms.

Tuoi Tre spoke to Vu Dinh Anh, deputy director of the government’s Market and Price Research Institute, who believes that keeping the price rise down to single digits will represent a success for the government.

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While the real estate prices in all areas in Hanoi have been decreasing as the market has become gloomy after the price fever fit in the first quarter of 2010, the land prices in My Dinh area still keep rising.

Only after a short time, Vietnam has been turned into a hi-tech rubbish dump of the world.

Mobile phone service providers have been trying to reduce charges in order to attract more clients. However, analysts believe that the charges would not be slashed further.

The news that Vincom Securities Company (VincomSC) has announced the plan to withdraw from the market has immediately caused a stir-up in the market.

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Many respected scientists, who enjoy high prestige and meet all requirements to be eligible for the professorship, still have not been granted the title. Meanwhile, the qualifications of many professors and associate professors are questionable.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese contestant at 2010 Miss World pageant Kieu Khanh ranks second in the list of the most beautiful Asian contestants at the 2010 Miss World on Globalbeauties website.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Grand Masters Quang Liem and Truong Son will compete with each other in a quarter-final game of the 9th Cap d’Agde rapid chess festival in France.

VietNamNet Bridge – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Hanoi in the afternoon of October 28 to visit Vietnam and attend the 3rd ASEAN-UN Summit.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Nhue-Day flood basin is choked with waste and is struggling to cope with water being discharged in northern provinces, officials said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Yang Bay in the central province of Khanh Hoa is famed for its pristine beauty, expansive forests, and glassy waterfalls – in fact the superlatives go on and on.

VietNamNet Bridge – Flood water has gone down in the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh, leaving a thick layer of red mud, rubbish and dead bodies of animals.

VietNamNet Bridge – A pregnant woman in HCM City who was about to deliver a baby took a cab to the hospital. Because of traffic jam, she had to give birth in the cab.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi authorities plan to encourage the growth of water plants in the city's lakes to offset chronic pollution.

VietNamNet Bridge – Veterans and amateurs promise to enchant aficionados with their varied performance styles at the first Zither Festival which opens in HCM City tomorrow, Oct 30.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 48 Hour Film Project will gather 44 film crews from around the country in HCM City today, Oct 29, for a wild and sleepless weekend in which each crew makes a movie in just 48 hours to editing and scoring.