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Vietnam Mobile Day 2015: Development, marketing and business opportunities

VietNamNet Bridge – Mobile apps which companies can use to provide information on brands, promotions, product launches, to service existing customers and advertise to new ones are becoming more and more popular

Policymakers accused of discriminating against businesses

The 2008 Law on Promulgation of Legal Normative Documents stipulates that ministries and branches must collect opinions from subjects to be covered by laws when drafting laws and legal documents. 

New policies take effect in June

 New policies on supporting poor ethnic minority, violations on forest environment and exemption of land tax at disadvantaged areas will come into effect since June 2015.

Cloudy days ahead in the internet era

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Tuyet of HCM City was taken aback one day when many of her friends asked her about a party she planned to attend two weeks later.

Romantic Hoi An lanterns in pictures

 VietNamNet Bridge - In addition to its peaceful scene, Hoi An is attractive to tourists with its lanterns. Lanterns appear everywhere in the old town, in the front porch of restaurants, hotels and shops.

Van Kieu ethnic group

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Van Kieu group live mainly in Huong Hoa and Dakrong Commune and Lao Bao Township. The Van Kieu are also called Tri, Khua, Ma Coong, and Bru.

Charity work in a small alley

VietNamNet Bridge – Sweating in the heat of Saigon, Do Van Ut fixes a motorbike at the entrance to the alley at 96 Phan Dinh Phung Street in HCMC’s Phu Nhuan District. Next to him is a jug of ice tea.
 

Social News 31/5

Vietnam to join French Language World Forum, Three robbers arrested in Ha Noi, Five in critical condition after eating toxic mushrooms, Authorities probe bridge collapse, 40-kilogram war bomb defused in central Vietnam

MOT plans to collect waterway fee despite business opposition

Experts have warned that the waterway fee of VND70,000 per kilometer imposed on every 1,000 tons of goods would be a burden on businesses, which will lead to higher production costs and lower competitiveness.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung works with Kazakh counterpart

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had a working session with his Kazakh counterpart, Karim Masimov, on May 29 on the margin of the signing ceremony on the free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and the Eurasia Economic Union.

13 Korean artists to perform at HCM City chamber music concert

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese and Korean artists will perform at a chamber music concert to be held at the HCM City Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, on June 9.

Experts weigh in on East Sea situation

 VietNamNet Bridge – China's reef construction and expansion in the East Sea has seriously violated Viet Nam's sovereignty, causing deep concerns among the international community, including ASEAN.

Local consumers spend big on technical goods

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese consumers spent over VND36 trillion on technical consumer goods in the first quarter of 2015, up 22.8% against the same period last year, a report of Gfk Temax Vietnam showed.

Tien Ca Cave in Ninh Binh Province

VietNamNet Bridge – Not as famous as Tam Coc-Bich Dong or Trang An, Tien Ca Cave in Thung Nham, Ninh Hai Village, Hoa Lu, northern Ninh Binh Province is its own unique attraction.

Workers without contracts to get protection under new law

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly Deputy Bui Si Loi, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Social Affairs, spoke with Vietnamplus about the draft law on Labour Safety and Hygiene.

Lung cancer therapy is 'milestone'

 A lung cancer therapy can more than double life expectancy in some patients, a "milestone" trial shows.

Hoi An’s “Queen of Banh Mi”

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign visitors have voted "The Banh Mi Queen" among the top-10 food shops in the historic town of Hoi An.

HSBC skeptical about use of foreign reserves for investment

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government looks at the possibility of tapping the country’s foreign reserves as a source of funding for development investment but HSBC Bank has cast doubt about this,

A collection sets nation's history in stone

We followed the Ho Chi Minh Highway, which runs between vast rubber plantations, to arrive in Phu Dinh Commune in Bo Trach District of the central province of Quang Binh.  

Great danger

 VietNamNet Bridge – Traveling by road in Vietnam is never an easy task as poor infrastructure and management has led to traffic chaos in major cities, hence a lot of accidents.