VietNamNet Bridge – Secretary of the Ha Noi Party Committee, Pham Quang Nghi suggested raising the environmental levy on households in the capital, arguing the current fee is too low.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Compared with the battle in Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands, China was more prepared for its attack to seize Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) in 1988. It chose a time when Vietnam was in a difficult situation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is weighing up the pros and cons of offering more incentives to foreign investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A website specializing in Vietnamese cuisine, Viet Street Food, recently posted attractive images together with the introduction of the most delicious street cuisine of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The following maps, published by China, Viet Nam and foreign countries, all show that the southernmost part of China is Hainan island.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport said Runway 1A of Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi will be closed from August 21 to December this year for upgrade.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – A pool of at least 1000 experts in different fields that can be tapped for consultative and analytical services for various projects will be developed by 2016, it was reported at a recent workshop.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Leaders of Hoang Lien National Park near Sapa Town in Lao Cai Province is proposing to honour the groups of fir and rhododendron trees on the Fansipan Mountain as the heritage trees of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The strict conditions laid out for surrrogacy in the law recently approved by the National Assembly opens a very narrow door for women incapable of child-bearing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The strong sales of books and magazines, especially imports, has improved the local market, but higher demand has also brought more smuggled reading materials from illegal publishers and distributors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s heavy dependence on the US dollar gives it few policy choices, the Vietnam Business Forum’s Macro-economic Policy Working Group (MAG) has commented.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The deputy foreign ministers will pay working visits to Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, and Singapore this July to strengthen friendship between Vietnam and the countries,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has approved more international airports and seaports to open counters from on July 1 for value-added tax (VAT) refunds for the goods foreign visitors purchase in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – The country is expected to attract foreign direct investments (FDI) worth US$8 billion into industrial zones (IPs) and $2 billion into economic zones (EZs) this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi will become a modern city by 2030, President of the Vietnam Urban Planning and Development Association, Tran Ngoc Chinh told the Hanoi Moi (New Hanoi) newspaper.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More efforts must be made to efficiently manage and use scarce water resources of the Mekong River as climate change and rapid development to produce electricity have threatened its sustainability.

VietNamNet Bridge – Soldiers and fishermen who are resolutely safeguarding the country’s sovereignty over its sea and islands have been an inspiration for artists to compose hundreds of artworks imbued with their emotion and national pride.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Historical evidence of Vietnam's sovereignty over the two archipelagoes- Hoang Sa (Paracel) and (Spratly) Truong Sa are featured is a book that Dr. Han Nguyen Nguyen Nha has devoted a great deal of effort.

Bui Quang Vinh, Minister of Planning and Investmentthinks he knows how to streamline Vietnam's complex foreign investment process: eliminate the investment certificate mechanism.Foreign investors, however, are not so sanguine about the idea.