VietNamNet Bridge – While people are choosing decorations for Christmas trees and gifts for relatives and friends, their children have only one thing on mind – Santa Claus and the gifts he is likely to bear.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The northeastern coast province of Quang Ninh is more known for its beautiful landscapes than its gastronomy. A recent visit to the area helped me discover a local specialty that is not to be missed, cha muc or fried pasted squid.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has successfully made friendly plastic bags which can decompose after a short time. However, petty merchants and consumers still turn their back to the kind of bags.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Minh Hao, 22, used his arms to climb the stairs at a supermarket in District 9 with great difficulty.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Health has ordered concerned agencies to inspect all fresh rice noodles makers and traders in the city for harmful additives, including Tinopal, an optical brightening agent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More modern and better served than traditional markets, more convenient than supermarkets as located in residential quarters, convenience stories are believed to be the places housewives go to most usually.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign retail giants have shown their hunger to develop modern retailing in Viet Nam by pouring money into trade centres and supermarkets.

Supermarkets remain cool these days because of the low purchasing power, but the competition among supermarket chains has got scorching hot.

VietNamNet Bridge – A total of 365 children from different ethnic groups and countries will paint a record-breaking canvas to send a historic message as part of the activities to celebrate International Children's Day in Ha Noi on June 1.

VietNamNet Bridge – Every Saturday evening, as a weekend treat, Tran Huyen Thanh of Tan Binh District takes her children to the Nguyen Kiem Co-opmart Supermarket for dinner.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) said it has fulfilled the commitments of setting a leveling playing field for all players--when drawing up the network of supermarkets and shopping malls by 2020.