VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has been conferred the honourary title of visiting professor by the University of Oxford for a second term, from 2016 to 2021.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has requested four inspection teams to examine the compensation for residents affected by the marine environment incident in the central provinces

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four men, suspected to be part of a larger crime ring, were caught red-handed by the criminal police siphoning gasoline from a tanker in HCM City on Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The death penalty was submitted on Thursday by the People’s Procuracy of Hoa Binh Province against 11 defendants for “illegally trading and storing drugs” as part of a massive trans-national heroin trafficking operation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Entries are invited from runners for the first Ha Giang Province’s Marathon Open which will kick off on April 30.

The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency said he is not convinced that carbon dioxide from human activity is the main driver of climate change and said he wants Congress to weigh in on whether CO2 is a harmful pollutant

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly’s Law Committee on Thursday convened its fourth plenary session in Ha Noi, with debates focusing on examining amendments to the drafted Denunciation Law.

 A man armed with an axe mounted attack on people at the main train station in Germany's western city of Dusseldorf on Thursday, injuring six people, police said.

 The premiere date of HBO's medieval fantasy series "Game of Thrones" was announced with fiery fanfare on Thursday, as a block of ice was melted live online to reveal the July 16 start of the new season.

VietNamNet Bridge - Decree 109 dated in 2010, described as a significant barrier to rice exports, will be amended by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT). 

 As part of plans to improve the startup ecosystem in the country, Vietnamese universities are developing student innovation and startup programmes.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  Viet Nam national men’s football team retained their No 136 spot internationally, according to the latest FIFA world ranking table in March.

  PetroVietnam Oil Corporation (PV Oil), a subsidiary of PetroVietnam, is planning to sell a 40 per cent stake to strategic investors in the upcoming equitisation expected by the end of June this year.

Vietnam’s derivatives market will start operating in May or June in hopes it will improve Viet Nam’s securities market and attract more foreign investment, according to the Chairman of the State Securities Commission.

 Ten countries and territories have agreed to protect the "Buon Ma Thuot Coffee" brand name, which hails from the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, its provincial People’s Committee said.

Cuu Village is an ancient village of Hanoi. Entering the village entrance, you see an ancient and nostalgic world, attracting visitors to a quiet and peaceful land. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The website of HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport, tansonnhatairport.vn, was hacked late Wednesday, with many people reporting they were unable to log on at about 10:45 pm.

 VietNamNet Bridge – I had heard that the Trang An complex was one of most attractive natural beauty sites in Viet Nam, but my recent trip there surpassed all expectations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition that opened this week at Ha Noi’s Fine Arts Museum depicts lacquer paintings depicting the Vietnamese practices related to belief in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms,

 U.S. employers likely maintained a brisk pace of hiring in February and boosted wages for workers, which is expected to give the Federal Reserve the green light to raise interest rates next week despite slowing economic growth.

 In an inspection on Thursday, Da Nang Party Secretary Nguyen Xuan Anh urged city departments to investigate the cause of My Khe beach erosion and to submit an emergency plan to protect the beach from further decay.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tam Ky City and Tam Thanh Commune have launched a community-based art space as part of a tourism development pilot project.

 South Korea's Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving the country's conglomerates, sparking protests from her supporters two of whom were killed in clashes with police.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Presidential Palace, University of Hanoi, Hang Dau water tower, and Hospital K are fourof several French colonial buildings in Hanoi that have been proposed for preservation.

VietNamNet Bridge - With the development of automation technology, many unskilled workers are expected to be replaced by robots on production lines.