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Firms keep up with pay rises

 VietNamNet Bridge – Both multinationals and major local companies have increased salaries by nearly the same rate this year, a survey by Mercer, a global provider of human resource services

Pristine beaches north of Van Phong Bay

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the North of Van Phong Bay, about 100 kilometers from Nha Trang City near Dam Mon Town, tourists can see many pristine beaches surrounded by dense forests and sand dunes.

Deputy PM Phuc visits Japan

 Recent global and regional developments warrant Viet Nam forging closer military ties with Japan, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo yesterday.

Prime Minister Dung begins European tour

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung left Ha Noi yesterday, beginning an European tour that includes official visits to Belgium, the European Union and Germany, attending the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting in Italy, and a visit to the Vatican.

Can Tho seeks Japan funds

 VietNamNet Bridge – Officials of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho last Saturday called on Japanese investors to fund key projects in exchange for favourable conditions.

Fruit safety questionable

 VietNamNet Bridge – Public concerns about the safety of products originating in China, especially fruits, are meant to be doused when the top official of the country’s veggies safety agency asserts that there is no ground for suspicions.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 13/10

PVN to divest VND5 trillion from OceanBank, PVcomBank; Open-ended SSI-SCA fund starts operation; Vietnam, RoK cooperate in developing microchip industry; Start-up capital goes up 13.9 percent in 9 months

Over 90 percent of offices for lease filled in HCM City

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 91 percent of offices for lease in Ho Chi Minh City was filled in the third quarter of this year, the highest level in the past five years,

UK dancers to stage Norwegian Wood-inspired acts

VietNamNet Bridge – UK dance company James Cousins will bring along their two dance productions, Without Stars and There We Have Been inspired by Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood,

VN kids to watch NBA athletes

VietNamNet Bridge –The US's National Basketball Association, whose international youth development programme came recently to Viet Nam, has announced that a Junior NBA Viet Nam All-Stars team will go to China

ILO method to show much higher unemployment rate in VN

The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs will work with the International Labor Organization (ILO) on a new method to calculate the unemployment rate in Vietnam after the second quarter’s 1.84 percent rate raised controversy.

Images: Life in a reed jungle amid busy Saigon

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a forest of water coconuts and reeds is a small village with a dozen tin roof houses. From here, one can see the luxury apartments buildings, Saigon Pearl and The Manor.

33 branches may be weeded out of list of conditional business fields

VietNamNet Bridge – The compilers of the draft to amend the investment and enterprise laws plan to cut the number of conditional business fields to 365 from 398.

Images: 'Hanging bombs' on the roofs of old apartments in Hanoi

 VietNamNet Bridge - Looking from above, the roofs of dormitories in Hanoi are covered with many stainless steel water tanks.

Game firms fear luxury tax will lead to cheaper, smuggled goods

VietNamNet Bridge – A proposed luxury tax on online games has spread fear among gaming companies, who believe smuggled products would ruin their business if the tax becomes law.

Legal advice: Specific provisions on online-game businesses

When selecting the method to provide online games, enterprises need to give heed to the following matters: licenses to provide electronic game services, decisions approving game content and script, among others.

Three famous overseas Vietnamese makeup artists

 VietNamNet Bridge – When we think of the world of Hollywood, the first two things that come to mind are the actresses and actors. Behind these people, however, are the makeup artists.

Volunteer lifeguard keeps Great Lake safe

 VietNamNet Bridge – They call him "The Old Man of the Lake"---a moniker fondly chosen for him by the people who live around the Great Lake To Nueng in the Tay Nguyen province of Gia Lai.

Vietnam to expand low-carbon rice farming model

 VietNamNet Bridge – Reducing greenhouse gases in agricultural production is currently a general trend in the world. In Vietnam, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has carried out many programmes

Primitive Bich Dam Island

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nha Trang, needless to say, is famous for tourists owing to its white-sand beaches, comfortable hotels and resorts, good food at various restaurants, and diverse entertainment facilities.