Students cannot understand lessons when they are at official school hours. However, they can easily understand what teachers say at extracurricular classes.

VietNamNet Bridge – The amended Corporate Income Tax Law reintroduces tax incentives for investment expansion, which is expected to encourage foreign-invested enterprises to raise their investment capital in the near future.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal sand exploitation damaged the capital city's dike system, said Do Duc Thinh, director of the municipal Flood, Storm Control and Dike Management Department.

At the Na Meo Market in Na Meo commune of Quan Son district in Thanh Hoa province, buyers and sellers can use three currencies, including Vietnam dong, Lao kip and US dollar, in making payment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the first quarter of the year, government inspectors conducting a check of administrative offices have uncovered 14 corruption cases involving 37 offenders.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Wood, wax and yarn are the mediums of choice for German artist Dorothee Berkenheger in her new collection at the New Space Arts Foundation in Hue that is running from April 13 to May 1.

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TV enterprises would have to spend several trillions of dong to buy new machines to broadcast TV programs in new technology, while people would have to pay VND9,100 billion to buy set top boxes to watch terrestrial digital TV.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Developers are offering more affordable housing, yet people continue to hesitate when it comes to making home purchases.

Domestic pharmacy firms, which understand the power of foreign groups, do not intend to confront the big guys, but try to attach niche markets to earn small changes.

VietNamNet Bridge – Friends of Vietnam Heritage, a non-formal group of foreign residents living in Ha Noi who work voluntarily to promote and preserve Vietnamese cultural and historical heritage, will host two city walks on April 24 and April 26.

According to the city’s social-economic report of the first quarter 2013, more than 104,000 new vehicles, including over 26,000 cars, were registered during this period. On average, the city had nearly 300 newly-registered cars per day.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Eight hotels with 1,400 rooms, many of which are managed by international operators like Intercontinental, Marriott, Hilton Hotels & Resorts and Candeo, are scheduled to start service in Hanoi this year.

Hollywood names and arthouse directors on Thursday get to hear if they are in the frame for the Palme d'Or at next month's Cannes film festival, the world's leading cinema showcase. 

Top swimmer Hoang Quy Phuoc is warming up for the Asian Indoor Games in South Korea in June – a crucial test before competing in the Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar later this year, and the Incheon Asian Games in 2014.

Sharing the same business premises with others, relocating the offices to the suburbs, laying off workers and cutting down all possible expenses are the things most businessmen are doing to save every dong to survive the current difficult period.

There are so numerous people with high education (bachelors, masters and PhDs) in Vietnam that they have been compared as the “yellow leaves in the autumn.”

Investors are willing to spend money to build modern garbage treatment plants which would generate electricity and make compost fertilizer. However, they need the amounts of garbage big enough to run.

 Twitter on Wednesday began to allow ads to be targeted at users based on the words written in 'tweets' and messages forwarded to followers at the popular social network.

VietNamNet Bridge – Speaking at a meeting on crime prevention and control in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on April 15, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said police must strengthen efforts to curb crime in both the cities.