The death toll from a powerful typhoon that ravaged the southern Philippines rose to 82 Wednesday, as rescuers battled to reach areas cut off in flash floods and mudslides.

  President greets former Soviet Union veterans; Hai Phong urged to remove business obstacles; President Sang welcomes Vietnam-Japan cooperation; NA Chairman meets Vietnamese expatriates in Thailand

While a lot of institutional investors have got stuck with their investments in the banking sector, state owned conglomerates, which are undergoing the restructuring process, still want to “kick against the pricks.”

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has protested China’s recent violations of its sovereignty and asked the neighbour to respect its sovereignty.

In the past, BlackBerry was the brand everyone would think of when considering to buy smart phones. However, things are different now.

VietNamNet Bridge – Machines, equipment, goods, real estate have all been advertised for sale by commercial banks to claim back their lent money. However, this proves to be a hard job.

Vietnamese businesses, which have a small production scale and earn modest money, are not ready to spend money on advanced technologies which allow to make clean products.

The Hanoi education department initiated program on teaching English to first graders started in 2008. To date, 400 schools have joined the program.

VietNamNet Bridge – With just a coffin made of rare wood, a few hundreds of liters of attar and the anaerobic techniques, the dead look like sleeping people for a thousand year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Abortion, the end of the development process of a being-formed human body should have been one of the safest medical procedures, but there are still “manual” abortion procedures in the modern time today.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Central Vietnam has great potential for developing into an attractive tourist destination with its vast beautiful beaches and a number of world heritage sites.

 NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a "magnetic highway" at the edge of the solar system, a surprising discovery 35 years after its launch, the experts behind the pioneering craft said Monday.

Unregistered import firms may be closed; SMEs urged to update products; Firms fail to exploit internet marketing; Coffee growers fight FDI business; Tax on jet-plane fuel cut from 12 to 7 per cent

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign contractors will face stricter scrutiny in the coming times as authorities aim to limit delays in a range of projects.

VietNamNet Bridge – There are a lot of unfinished works which are covered by thick grass in the Dung Quat Economic Zone in the central province of Quang Ngai.

 The first book for "grown-ups" by Harry Potter author JK Rowling is to be adapted into a television series, the BBC announced Monday.

 More local students receive Australian scholarships; Marathon man funds clean water project; Samples tested negative to H5N1; Hanoi supports needy people during upcoming Tet

VietNamNet Bridge – After four times of delays, the Tan Rai bauxite plant will have its first batch of product on December 14-15.

Miss Vietnam 2012 Thu Thao, Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han and Miss Vietnam 2006 Mai Phuong Thuy show their beauty in the designs, which will be introduced at the Vietnam Spring Summer 2013 Fashion Week.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has up to 15% of the population who are the people with disabilities and they do not have stable jobs and income.