Natural resources have been degrading and getting exhausted, the biodiversity has got degraded, while climate changes have turned unpredictable. These are the main points of the picture about Vietnam’s environment.

VietNamNet Bridge – There are some 50 establishments that provide electronic games for prizes to foreigners in Vietnam. The revenue from the services has been increasing steadily. The figure was VND5 trillion in 2011.

The foreign direct investment (FDI) in the real estate sector in HCM City decreased sharply in 2012. However, experts say this is not bad news at all.

The military telecom group Viettel has proposed the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) to increase the floor connection fee for incoming international calls from US4.1cents currently, to US6 cents per minute.

The current policy on VAT incentives turns out to maltreat software firms, while the corporate income tax incentives have been benefiting foreign firms. Meanwhile, there has been no personal income tax for software workers.

Marketing and sales officers would be most wanted in 2013, a report says, because businesses would have to focus on boosting sales and clear inventories.

VietNamNet Bridge – Rice fields are getting yellow and ragged in Duc Hoa district of Long An province, because they have been irrigated with the polluted waste water discharged from the industrial zones in the area.

The Stork Island in Hai Duong Province is now the home to 16,000 storks and some 5,000 night herons that have been living on the three floating strips of land of the An Duong lake, the place with the most diversified ecosystem in the north.

A lot of effective models of treating environment pollution with microbiology still have not been brought into life due to the lack of an appropriate investment mechanism.

VietNamNet Bridge – A cutthroat competition is believed to occur in the pay-TV market in 2013, when telecom groups jump into the market and force the service fees down.

Students complain that the new regulation by the Ministry of Education and Training would deprive their opportunities to follow university education.

VietNamNet Bridge – Commercial banks have been making fat profits from ATM services, but they have decided to collect fees from inner-network transactions as well.

Business owners have affirmed that the new policy on six-month maternity wouldn’t affect their production plans much.

VietNamNet Bridge – Experts have found out a lot of problems in the power development program No. 7. The one designed for the socio-economic period from now to 2020.

The last 10 years witnessed big upheavals in the pre-school education. The policy on pre-school education socialization has kept a lot of children away from kindergartens.

When automobile manufacturers’ association reported the sharp falls in the car sales, big worries have been raised--not only to the manufacturers, but to local authorities as well.

Red pine (taxus wallichiana zucc) which only grows in Lam Dong province is one of the rare species with the highest 10 – DB III content, an active element that can turn into taxol used in making up the medicine for cancer treatment.

Here in Con Cuong district of the central province of Nghe An, the ecosystem has been in danger, while a lot of animal species may get extinct as they have been killed everyday to become the food at the parties.

A series of investment projects in e-commerce have been kicked off, seemingly promising to heat up the market which remains cool despite the presence of the giant eBay.

The automobile and motorbike industries are not the subject to any investment encouragement policies. However, the government has been urged to change the current situation.