VietNamNet Bridge - The lives of hundreds of thousands of households in the downstream Ba River has been upset since the day the An Khe-Kanak blocked the stream to store water for electricity generation in September 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge - Domestic organizations, stage agencies and businesses remain passive in handling  security vulnerabilities, which brings high risks to networks, especially servers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Some psychologists believe that sex education must start when children are three years old, but some teachers believe that this is not suitable for an Asian country like Vietnam.

While the Ministry of Construction (MOC) believes that ranking apartments will help define selling prices and provide information about apartment management fees, some analysts say other countries do not use such a system. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese manufacturers make toys for outsourced contracts and satisfy the strict requirements set by foreign partners, but cannot cement their positions in the home market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Sources say Standard Chartered Bank, a big foreign shareholder of the Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), is considering leaving ACB.

VietNamNet Bridge - Two weeks ago, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) organized a non-deal roadshow for the Vietnam’s $3 billion international bond issuance campaign, scheduled to be launched in 2016.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Airlines, the national flag air carrier, is seeking shareholders’ approval for the sale of three Airbus A350s it would receive in 2016-2017.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCMC, the only locality in Vietnam that has a made-by-Vietnam chip’ dream with its IC industry development program, is meeting big challenges in commercializing products.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many investors, big and small, now are offering to sell bank stakes, but cannot find buyers even though the selling shares are lower than face value. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese rice exporters have been told to try to penetrate non-China markets to make bigger profits. However, they have not made efforts to attack markets in France and the US.

VietNamNet Bridge - Well-known in Vietnam as the developer of the CGV cinema network, the CJ Group had unexpectedly joined the competition for shares of Vissan, a food processing company. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The public debt has hit a ceiling, the state budget is under strain, and enterprises’ competitiveness remains weak – all these will be great challenges for new cabinet.

As the crude oil price keeps falling, state budget revenue has decreased. However, despite the bad news, Vietnam still has to continue exploiting oil and consider opening the Red River coal basin.

VietNamNet Bridge - The success of Vissan’s IPO held earlier last week showed that foreign investors find the food sector in the country attractive.

VietNamNet Bridge - After 10 years of operation, the nation’s key labs, set up with investment capital of VND1 trillion to work as the ‘iron fists’ of Vietnam’s science and technology, have been degrading dramatically.

VietNamNet Bridge - The wife of a man who has two previous convictions for being involved in the killing and trafficking of tigers has been allowed to import and breed nine tigers.

VietNamNet Bridge - The plans on setting up two new air carriers – Vietstar Airlines and SkyViet – have been submitted to the Prime Minister.

Vietnam, a large market with high population and a developing economy, which is part of the vast 600 million people AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) market, is a ‘promising land’ for Russian automobile manufacturers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has been unintentionally importing pollution because of loopholes in management over scrap imports.