The winner of the Cannes Film Festival will be announced on Sunday, with a French movie about AIDS campaigners and two dark Russian dramas among the hottest tips.

 Hoa Lac High-tech Park (HHTP)’s management board has sent a report to the Ministry of Planning and Investment requesting nearly VND8.3 trillion (US$364 million) for land clearance and infrastructure construction.

 Floods and landslides in tropical Sri Lanka have killed at least 164 people, authorities said on Monday, as a cyclone grew in the Bay of Bengal, churning towards Bangladesh

VietNamNet Bridge - Here are the top Saigon tours, which range from full-day trips to the iconic Chu Chi Tunnels to boat cruises through the vast Mekong Delta.

 A movie by an Iranian who was arrested for his work in Iran won the "Un Certain Regard" competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, bolstering the country's filmmakers' reputation for defying the censors to make high-quality films.

 Japanese and South Korean buying helped drive the price of bitcoin to an all-time high this week, with the digital currency more than doubling its value since the start of the year, 

 "The Square", a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art, beat stiff competition to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.

An anonymous Vietnamese businessman has donated $1,000 to buy a repatriation plane ticket for a Russian with a metal problem to go home. The Russian man had been  wandering for months in Khanh Hoa.

 Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh and Portuguese FM Augusto Santos Silva have agreed to double efforts to raise the two-way trade value to US$1 billion by 20202.

 A red maple tourist area has just been opened for the public on May 26 at Da Lat City’s Ward 3 in the central highlands province of Lam Dong.

 From 2012 to 2016, there have been 127,258 domestic violence nationwide which many of cases lead to divorce. Worse, 83.69 percent of domestic violence cases were committed by males.

Lao Cai city has begun construction of the Pho Moi tourism market, the first such market in Vietnam. 

HCM City's retail market to see large quantity of floor area by end of 2018, according to Colliers report.

First-ever Asian Venture Capital Journal forum hears from international investors about investment opportunities in Vietnam.

 Microsoft Vietnam has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Khanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee to develop the south-central beach city of Nha Trang into a smart city with a particular focus on tourism.

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 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam demanded a halt to the Son Tra tourism development master plan for three months to review the plan.

 The eighth edition of the festival is set to take place on June 9-18 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City within the framework of activities launched by the network of the European cultural institutes and embassies (EUNIC) in Vietnam.

 Farmers in the southern coastal province of Phu Yen are losing hundreds of billions of dong as their lobsters are dying en mass.

In marking the 50th anniversary of ASEAN and 25 years of diplomatic ties between Viet Nam and the Republic of Korea (ROK) this year, the Viet Nam News and the Maeil Business, ...

 VietNamNet Bridge – Female theatre director Trinh Kim Chi of HCM City’s private drama troupe, TKC, believes that musical dramas created for children will dominate the market this summer. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of Vietnamese books that debuted this week to celebrate Children’s Day on June 1 are now available in bookstores around the country.

The Viet Nam Youth Federation (VYF) in co-operation with its partners has launched a national campaign to mark the 70th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day on July 27 in HCM City.  

Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh reported on May 22 before the National Assembly that the tourism sector had a good start in the first months of the year, and that the government hopes to see the number of foreign travelers increase by 30 percent in 2017.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Social services need to improve to help curb child labour in Viet Nam and reduce its negative impacts on the country’s youth.