VietNamNet Bridge – ASEAN will take the initiative to participate in dialogues with the United Nations and other organisations of good will such as the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization to improve the role of international law

APFNet helps northern province ensure forest management; Ho Chi Minh City hopes to tackle flood issues; Dung Quat contaminates air in central Vietnam

PM receives outgoing Italian, N Korean envoys; Zimbabwe seeks cooperation with Vietnam; Seminar to build Vietnam-Japan strategic partnership; Canada, Vietnam boost all-round cooperation

Consumer predilections for foreign drugs are turning Vietnam away from its own cheap meds

Industrial parks seek investors; State to increase auditing activities next year; Shares continue downward trend

Police burns the 8,000 kilo of hashish; Vietnam-RoK Peace Village inaugurated; Cold months predicted for northern Viet Nam; Vietnam, Laos boost cooperation in TV broadcasting; 22,000 rural labourers have new jobs

VietNamNet Bridge – Qatar Airways officially launched the Doha-Hanoi route on November 2 with four flights a week.

Vietnam should learn the lessons from other countries in attracting foreign investment, and it needs to make fundamental changes in terms of policies

The mobile phone prices have increased sharply in recent days due to the dollar price increases. However, it is quite a surprise that the price increases do not make the purchasing power decrease.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoians are astonished with the new “face” of O Quan Chuong gate, a relic of the Thang Long royal citadel. Its antique exterior has been restored with a new layer of mortar.  

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Architecture Association has launched a design competition challenging domestic and overseas Vietnamese architects to come up with an innovative idea for building houses in flood-prone areas.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese contestant Kieu Khanh wore a smart yellow gown in the final night of Miss World 2010 pageant last weekend. Fans are sad because she didn’t enter the top 25.

Nowadays more and more parents hire detectives to supervise their children. The service has been booming following an increasing demand from busy and high income parents

VietNamNet Bridge – As three hydro-power reservoirs in Ba River in Phu Yen province in central Vietnam were opened to discharge water on November 2, the province’s capital - Tuy Hoa city - has been flooded since the evening of November 2.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau, the renowned Vietnamese mathematician, who has won the Field Medal, has received an apartment from the government.

Owning simcards or license plates with “beautiful” numerals and collecting “super” cars have become the hobbies of many businessmen.

“We rejected ten events to save more than 100 billion dong. It is incorrect to say that we spent 4-5 trillion dong on Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary,” confirmed Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Binh Duong Province, which has fruitlessly spent VND4.47 trillion (US$229.2 million) in the last three years to clean up the pollution caused by industries, has decided to double the outlay for the next five years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hitachi and Panasonic Corporation will set up a co-operative relationship in the global smart-community business to help achieve a low-carbon society.

VietNamNet Bridge – Students at two-year vocational schools and colleges will be allowed to transfer to colleges and universities, according to a new policy from the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Labour, . . .