VietNamNet Bridge – I have visited Phan Rang several times but each trip gave me a new experience and brought me to new cool places of this coastal central city of Ninh Thuan Province.

The predictions about the world’s quiet rice market in second half of 2012 did not come true. Consignments of rice exports have been continually leaving Vietnam’s ports for other countries in recent days.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As of last week 33 out of the 66 hydropower dams subject to periodic inspections had not been checked, including seven large-scale dams.

Workers back to Libya; Vietnam, Denmark cooperate in wind power development; Petrol traders ordered to stop abusing stabilisation fund; Vietnamese handicrafts on show in Germany; VietJetAir continues biggest ever sale

VietNamNet Bridge - Chinese poor quality garment products have become Vietnamese products for exports, by using fake labels. These products are sold very well.

When asking the philosophical question “If you can change one thing in the society, what will you change?” Ting-Ting Cheng, a Taiwanese artist in the city for one month for an art-exchange project in HCMC, is always intrigued

‘Voracious Embrace: The Human / Animal Interface’ solo installation exhibition by Lena Bui on Thursday opened at HCMC Fine Arts Museum, bringing visitors to the hidden, perhaps overlooked encounters, between the human and animal world.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The large number of upscale hotels and resorts being built across the country could create an oversupply and lead to unhealthy competition among hoteliers, experts have warned.

VietNamNet Bridge – Several areas of Ha Long Bay, the newly-voted world wonder in northern coastal Quang Ninh Province, are seriously polluted. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Lan, a worker in Ha Noi's Bac Thang Long Industrial Zone, has had three abortions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese movie industry faced a lack of resources and money to make historical movies, cinema researchers and filmmakers told a conference on Tuesday in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in Ha Noi's Cau Giay District have arrested Dong Pham Nguyen, 26, a resident of central Binh Dinh Province who pretended to be a brain tumour patient to ask the public for money.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi needs up to VND60 trillion, or $3 billion to build a smart city that applies information technology in all areas. This plan will be submitted to the Hanoi People's Council in early December.

 VietNamNet Bridge – She is Pierrette Lamorlette, a Vietnamese – French woman, and has made many contributions to charitable activities in Khanh Hoa province.

Vietnamese have been warned that the country would seriously lack coal in the next three years, because the coal industry lacks tens of billons of dollars worth of investment capital.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As a film fan I have always loved going to the cinema to enjoy the big-screen experience. During a year I spent living in Hue, where there is no movie theatre, this was one of the few things I sorely missed.

A memorandum of understanding will be signed on Wednesday between the nation’s two biggest card unions, Smartlink Card Services Joint Stock Company and Vietnam National Financial Switching Joint Stock Co., to merge the former into the latter.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has been seeded No 8 for the Yonex-Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2012 that will take place from November 20-25 in Kowloon.

Experts say if Vietnam has to choose one of the two – the gold price stabilization and exchange rate stabilization – it would have to sacrifice the gold price in exchange for the stabilized dong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has signed Resolution 20-NQ/TW which figures out key orientations, targets, tasks and solutions for science and technology development until 2020, vision to 2030.