Having 130 operational shopping malls, 700 supermarkets and over 1,000 convenience stores, the Vietnamese retail market has been dominated by the three biggest names Co-op Mart, Big C and Metro.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Coming to Binh Duong Province, tourists should spend time making a pilgrimage up to Cau Mountain to enjoy the sanctuary’s atmosphere, peaceful surroundings and explore its folklore.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The second phase of a national housing programme for the poor will benefit around 500,000 families who will receive partial funding, but Government agencies differ on how it is to be financed.  

 VietNamNet Bridge - These artists have been known internationally for their activities for the community and their positions as ambassadors for some international organizations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This month, Hanoi audiences will have a chance to enjoy Mozart at Hanoi Opera House at 8 p.m. on August 13 and 14 and at L’Espace at 8 p.m. on August 21 and 22.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Social Insurance Agency (VSIA) has discovered that over 800,000 health insurance cards in 43 provinces and cities nationwide from 2010 to 2012 were wrongfully issued.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy head of Central Institute for Economic Management Vo Tri Thanh weighs over diverse aspects in Vietnam’s M&A market development and explains why it is now a good time for M&A deals.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s Goethe Institute will introduce four shorts of popular video artist Harun Farocki on Friday evening and August 22 at the institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Asian Football Confederation has approved the Vietnam Football Federation’s bid to host the East Asian qualifiers for the 2014 Asian Futsal Championships.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training has issued new methods for marking in primary schools for the new academic year 2013-2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The American Journal - Martha Stewart Living - a famous magazine dedicated to American women, has published a series of pictures of Vietnamese cuisine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The large-scale rice production model that has helped farmers earn higher revenues than the traditional model, has been adopted in most provinces in the Mekong Delta.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Truong Ngoc Anh, Le Quyen, My Tam, Dam Vinh Hung, Tang Thanh Ha are on the list of Vietnamese artists who own large assets.

Finance reports released by commercial banks showed that their bad debt ratios have fallen down to below 3%. This spells that the Vietnam Asset Management Company VAMC, established to help set banks free from bad debts, will have no job to do.

VietNamNet Bridge – Almost two weeks after hitting screens nationwide, the heavily promoted Duong dua has been declared a flop, following in the footsteps of many other recent Vietnamese releases which have failed to win audiences' hearts.

VietNamNet Bridge – Archer Nguyen Tien Cuong is hoping to build on his initial successes at regional competitions to lift the profile of his sport in Viet Nam while also pursuing his dream to one day compete at the Olympics. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Although she is sitting behind a crazy driver on an old motorbike who abruptly descends a mountain slope in the northern mountainous region of Yen Bai Province, a young volunteer physician from Ha Noi's Bach Mai Hospital, . . .

 VietNamNet Bridge – Arriving at Thuy Trieu Village in the northern province of Hai Phong, visitors will be astonished by nearly a hundred sophisticated wooden houses, as modern as any tube house.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mekong Delta provinces have long vied with each other to attract foreign investments to develop industrial parks and zones, however inefficient planning has led to thousands of hectares of land lying abandoned