The Dung Quat Oil Refinery earned nearly VND1.8 trillion (US$80.4 million) in after-tax profit in the first quarter of the year, achieving 30 per cent of its annual target.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Diep Phuong Tram was declared the best athlete in the National Short-course Swimming Championships, which closed yesterday in Hue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tapioca starch production plant in central Thanh Hoa Province has been fined VND310 million (US$13,710) for polluting the environment.

 Anyone found to be hanging advertising boards on trees, electric poles or traffic lights will be fined up to VNĐ10 million (US$439), five times higher than the previous regulation.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan and Indian Minister of Information and Broadcasting Venkaiah Naidu agreed on the need to intensify the two countries’ cooperation in press and broadcasting.

 Traffic accidents have killed 2,100 people and injured 3,800 others in the first three months of 2017, which is a decrease compared to the same period last year.

 Vietnam photographer Tran Minh Dung has been named winner in the National Awards category of the Sony World Photography Awards 2017 with his photo of Mu Cang Chai terraced rice fields.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the General Department of Sports and Physical Training and the Vietnam Sport News on March 27 voted for outstanding athletes and coaches in 2016. 

Following are a collection of photos from Hanoi Mardi Gras sponsored by the embassy of Australia in Vietnam on March 24 for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community.

 Drake ended Ed Sheeran's two week reign atop the Billboard 200 album chart on Monday, selling a monster 505,000 copies of his new album "More Life," 

 The village banyan tree, water well, and communal house yard have long been icons of the Vietnamese village.

 Ha Long is one of the first municipalities to blanket the city in free Wi-Fi as it hopes ‘Muni-Wi-Fi’ will somehow attract more tourists, facilitate waves of innovation and brand the city as tech-friendly.

 Sin Ho district in Lai Chau province has attracted more tourists in recent years thanks to its unspoiled nature and the diverse cultures of local ethnic minorities.

 Many young Saigonese always long for a place without earsplitting noises and with a tranquil space and poetic landscapes surrounded by rivers, lakes or green trees to escape the sultry atmosphere and stuffy city life.

 'Xoi khuc', also known as khuc cake, has its name because the cake cover is made by glutinous rice powder mixed with brayed 'khuc' leaves, covering gram and pork.

 A majority of EU countries voted on Monday against allowing two new genetically modified crops to be grown in Europe, batting the contentious decision on GM cultivation in Europe back to the EU executive, 

VietNamNet Bridge - Now that most of the best-known vegetable oil brands are sold in Vietnam, market performance is expected to be even better in 2017.

Howling winds, heavy rain and huge seas pounded Australia's northeast on Tuesday, damaging homes, wrecking jetties and cutting power to thousands of people as Tropical Cyclone Debbie tore through Queensland state

 James Joseph Kendall, an American English teacher at an elementary school in Hanoi, became famous by chance after he retrieved trash from a polluted ditch in Hanoi, in May 2015.

 The Vietnamese and US travel societies are expected to sign an agreement in Hanoi on April 7 to boost tourism cooperation.

 An ASEM conference will take place in Central Hue City on March 30-31 to discuss innovative education and human resource building for sustainable development.

 Nguyen Van Anh, Founder and Director of the Center for Research and Application of Sciences in Gender-Family-Women and Adolescents, has been selected by Forbes Magazine as one of Vietnam’s 50 most influential women.

 Facebook Inc added a feature to its Messenger app on Monday to allow users to share their locations continuously for up to an hour, ramping up competition with tools offered by Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google Maps.

 The question of how to raise assorted investment sources in Vietnam for national economic development has dominated the agenda of many economic forums.

 Hanoi Supermarket Association chair Vu Vinh Phu told stakeholders at a recent business conference that Vietnamese consumers have lost confidence in home grown fresh fruit and vegetables.