Vietnam’s state-run oil and gas group PetroVietnam announced a bid to entice new investors to the group-led $8 billion Block B-O Mon gas exploitation and pipeline complex.

Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel

  VinaCapital’s Vietnam Opportunity Fund is now listed on London’s main stock exchange as part of the fund’s efforts to raise foreign investor interest in the Vietnamese market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – World U8 chess champion Nguyen Le Cam Hien received a sponsorship from NutiFood.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Da Nang-Viet Nam team was knocked down when a huge wave struck it amid strong winds last night on the ninth race’s 23rd day.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will play Hong Kong in the first match of a four-sided tournament in Myanmar on June 3.

 Famous actresses Angela Phuong Trinh and Thanh Thuy, who are main casts of the Vietnamese movie “Taxi, Em Ten Gi?”, have been invited to the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place in May in France.

 The Vietnam Writers' Association has decided to translate the war novel 'Bien Ban ChienTranh 1-2-3-4.75' (War Minutes January-April, 1975) written by veteran journalist Tran Mai Hanh into English.

 China will continue discharging water from a hydropower station into the downstream Mekong River for drought relief, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said on April 12.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on April 12 sold the VND100 souvenir bill to mark its 65th founding anniversary (May 6, 1951).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s two stock bourses yesterday agreed to jointly build a common index as a step towards developing the country’s securities market.

 Chinese online marketplace Alibaba has struck a deal to acquire a controlling stake in Lazada Group SA, Southeast Asia's leading e-commerce platform, at a cost of US$1 billion.

 Four people died yesterday after suffocating from poisonous gas in an illegal gold mine in the central Quang Nam Province’s Nam Giang District.

 The 220kV Xekaman1-Pleiku2 transmission line in Vietnam’s territory, which transmits electricity from Laos to Vietnam, became operational on April 12, according to the National Power Transmission Corporation (EVN NPT).

 Vietnam ranks second in the number of overseas students in Japan as of May 2015, with 38,882 students, the latest statistics of the J apan Student Services Organisation (JASSO) revealed.

 Governor of Japan’s Mie prefecture, EIkei Sukuzi, hoped to bolster multi-faced cooperation with Vietnam, to further expand the two countries’ friendship and relations.

 The government members from the 2007-2011 and 2011-2016 tenures met with newly elected government members at a get-together in Hanoi on April 12.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An art programme titled Cau chuyen hoa binh so 4 (The Fourth Story of Peace) will be held in Japan’s capital, Tokyo, tomorrow, April 14.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many drivers and owners of motorised 4-wheel vehicles face business difficulties when their vehicles are denied certificates of quality and environmental control,

 VietNamNet Bridge – A photo contest will be launched by the Ha Noi Association of Photographic Artists in co-ordination with the Viet Nam Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vehicles avoiding Hac Tri Bridge in the northern province of Phu Tho have affected the recovery of investments made,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi authorities will tighten food safety management and inspection during the Food Safety Action Month taking place in all provinces and cities nationwide from April 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s tourism sector has seen signs of development in the first quarter of the year, Nguyen Van Tuan, director of the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism’s Marketing Department,

VietNamNet Bridge - Developing closed supply chains appears to be the only solution for Vietnamese businesses to take full advantage of the preferences to be brought by free trade agreements (FTAs).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nam Du is an archipelago of 21 islands in Kien Hai district, Kien Giang province, about 83 km from the mainland by sea.