VietNamNet Bridge – Looking up from her sau da (iced dracontomelum) juice, Michal Ansky weighed in on the new flavour, which she was tasting for the first time.

Mekong Delta rice exports up 18 percent; Trade with Bangladesh down; Real estate giant VinGroup hits record revenue; Province to revoke 8 mining licences; New opportunities for US investors

 VietNamNet Bridge – Classic novels are regarded as unattractive by young readers, while publishers are failing in persuading readers back to the genre.

With thousands of wild animals of African origin living in an area of over 100 hectares of natural land, the Trai Bo ecological farm in Dien Chau district in the central province of Nghe An is the biggest zoo in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s IT sector is one of the top 10 sectors that will need a large number of staff over the next three years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The capacities of Tan Rai and Nhan Co alumina plants will remain unchanged from now to 2015, but they could be doubled thereafter if transport infrastructure was good enough,

 VietNamNet Bridge – What does Nguyen Thanh Kim, a stamp collector, have that makes other philatelists jealous?

The State Bank of Vietnam has reported that the bad debt ratio has decreased sharply by 2.82 percent to six percent. However, analysts have looked dubiously at the figure

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport proposed stricter punishments and higher fines for traffic violators, especially illegal street racers.

After three times of repair, the East-West Highway, which was built at the cost of hundreds of millions of US dollars, is still severely subsided. The investor has committed to complete the repair in early 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Science and Technology will conduct a VND200 billion (over US$9.5 million) information project on nuclear power development.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Having recently been in town filming the six-week Vietnamese leg of the biopic Noble – the story of missionary Christina Noble – director Stephen Bradley . . .

The Central Highlands is favored with various varieties of rare herbs. However, the resources of herbs in this region are getting exhaust when thousands of people are flocking into the jungle to exploit them.

The draft decree of pecuniary penalty on the violations in seafood trade says the fine of up to VND100 million would be imposed on the institutions which join forces with foreign merchants to collect aquatic materials in the domestic market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam faces two major hurdles in combating HIV/AIDS: namely unsustainable achievements and the reduction of international financial support,

VietNamNet Bridge – Police are soon to be prohibited from stopping travelling motorbikes in order to check ownership documentation and may only pull vehicles over if they have just cause to do so.

Canals in Ho Chi Minh City are dying because each day they have to suffer hundreds of tons of garbage discharged from households who live along the canals, ships, fruit shops and passers-by.

More and more people Hanoi have installed cellphone wave stimulating equipment at their homes to improve the wave quality.

A big real estate developer has been reportedly hospitalized to treat his mental disease. Thousands of bachelors in Da Nang City now work as blue collar workers at an electronics company.

Deputies of the HCMC People’s Council, speaking at a meeting last Friday on the draft of the amended 1992 Constitution, proposed urban and rural administration should be constitutionalized.