More efforts are required to boost Viet Nam's hotel industry following signs of a slowdown in the high-end market, Grant Thornton has warned.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has delisted from the most 30 attractive retail markets in the world in the latest report released by A.T Kearney. However, it remains the market with great potentials in the eyes of retailers.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole, the U.S. space agency NASA announced Wednesday.

By 2013, the General Environment Directorate plans to announce the criteria for eco-labeling (green labeling) laptops, laser printers friendly to the environment.

The high percentage of students passing the high school final exams announced by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has raised the doubts about the necessity of the exams.

VietNamNet Bridge – The northern port city of Hai Phong will be the center where key activities of the national tourism years 2013 in the Red Rive Delta are held.

VAMA wants car registration fees cut to 10% over poor sales; Phong Phu to issue VND110 billion shares; Vietnam among top 29 fastest growing economies; Southern region seen facing power shortfall in 2013-15

VietNamNet Bridge – A mine exploded at Hoang Tin gold store on Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Hanoi this morning, June 21, injuring over ten people.

VietNamNet Bridge – Confounding and downright bizarre street names, many of them new and located in resident areas, are adding to the chaos of streets in HCM City, making it difficult for residents and others to find addresses.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new tour route from the city of My Tho to Cho Gao District was inaugurated on Tuesday in the southern province of Tien Giang to help introduce tourists to the culture and customs of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region.

VietNamNet Bridge – Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA)'s coach Nguyen Huu Thang has been fined VND5 million (US$238) and received a two-match suspension for shouting abuse at referees during a match against Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) in June 3.

VietNamNet Bridge – Petrol and oil prices have dropped three times within a month by a total of VND1,900 and VND1,400 per litre respectively, but transportation fees have not changed and some service providers have even talked of increasing prices.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam National University in Ha Noi has been accused of violating regulations on international training co-operation programmes, placing the BA and MBA degrees of more than 2,000 graduates in doubt.

The number of workers who applied for unemployment insurance is rising. By the end of May 2012, besides 175,000 workers who applied for receiving unemployment insurance, over 155,000 others were being monthly paid unemployment insurance.

With the recent string of weak economic data and the simmering eurozone debt crisis, the U.S. central bank announced on Wednesday to extend a bond-buying program intended to lower long-term interest rates while hinting at more steps

VietNamNet Bridge – On June 19, Saigon Air taxi handed over lost luggage, including VND400 million ($20,000) in cash and other valuable assets to a passenger.

After eight years in controversy, the fate of defendant Le Ba Mai who was sentenced to death twice and was also found innocent has not been determined. The ending of the so-called “Vuon Mit extraordinary case” is still a big a question.

VietNamNet Bridge – Because of a pituitary tumor, a man named Duy, in the southern province of Dong Nai, is now 2.03m tall. He is waiting for a surgery at HCM City’s Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital, to stop growing in height.

VietNamNet Bridge – Germany’s famous symphony orchestra Berliner Symphoniker will perform a concert entitled “Enternal Concert” together with Vietnamese violinist Bui Cong Duy at the Hanoi Opera House on July 17.

Some years ago, local authorities felt inspired reporting the increasingly high coconut growing areas. Nowadays, they feel puzzled because the coconut prices have fallen dramatically, pushing coconut growers against the wall.