VietNamNet Bridge – Located in Phu Tho Province, Xuan Son National Park is a perfect pick for those who are interested in discovering the pristine beauty of Mother Nature, the pure atmosphere of forests and mountains

HCM City’s Tran Huu Trang Theatre in co-operation with its partner Tien Giang Province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will stage a cai luong show to celebrate 110th anniversary of  the late playwright Tran Huu Trang’s birthday,

 Hailstones wreck havoc in Tuyen Quang province, ,Green urban areas lacking: architect, Japanese city sets up friendship association with Vietnam, Locals join hands to fight against saline intrusion, SBIC to accept returns of broken fishing boats

The US economic presence in Vietnam has been increasing steadily since the normalization of Vietnam-US relations since the 1990s. Russia, which was once the largest trade partner of Vietnam, has also returned.

  In an article published on March 28, the VOV Online Newspaper cited PM Nguyen Tan Dung saying that staff recruitment for civil servant positions has seen various problems since the process was done at a local level.

 Vietnamese securities companies are in a hurry to seek a suitable system to work with when the first-ever derivatives market is launched by this year-end, according to local media.

 Twenty-seven artists and technicians from Opera Australia will delight music lovers in Hanoi with the famous opera La Bohème to be held at the Hanoi Opera House on April 10.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta’s areas affected by saline intrusion have been urged to switch to other crops or breed shrimp or fish.  

Almost 67 percent of foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) in Vietnam are operating in low-value manufacturing sectors with out-dated machinery, which is a major reason for the severe pollution problems the country is facing.

 Vietnamese top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam has jumped 16 notches to the 870th slot in the latest ATP World Tour rankings.

 The National Assembly (NA) may loosen travel terms, making it easier for US citizens to travel to Vietnam for tourism or other business related purposes.

 Assistant to the Foreign Minister, Vu Quang Minh, and Deputy Secretary of the Malaysian Foreign Ministry, Dato Muhammad Sharulkram Yaakob, co-chaired the Vietnam-Malaysia Senior Officials’ Strategic Dialogue in Hanoi on April 4.

  The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) of the Transport Ministry will investigate an incident in which an Angkor Air aircraft slid off the runway after landing at HCM City’s airport Saturday evening.

  Over 37,000 hectares of forests in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang’s Phu Quoc island were put on level-five “extremely dangerous” alert for forest fires, stemming from prolonged drought, acute heatwave and a dwindling supply of water.

 Vietnam pledges to step up collaboration efforts with the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Centre’s member nations in preventing and detering illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

 Foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and enterprises committed to providing assistance for Vietnamese communities hardest hit by drought and saline intrusion at a conference on April 4.

  A number of activities will be held in response to third Vietnam Book Day (April 21).

 The National Assembly Standing Committee submitted to the NA a list of candidates for the positions of NA Vice Chair and member of the NA Standing Committee, the 13th tenure, during a plenary session on April 4.

Vietnam reaffirmed its pledge to join global efforts to disarm nuclear weapons, prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons, and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

The Veterinary Department has confirmed that all Chinese chickens imported into Vietnam are illegal and the authorities of Vietnam and China have not yet signed any agreement on the export and import of livestock and poultry products.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is not new that Chinese scholars have sought to plant false information in their scientific studies, but this has become more and more blatant.

 A television series entitled ‘Tour de Vietnam’ was launched recently with the aim of promoting Vietnam’s tourism to viewers around the world.

Several film-makers in Vietnam have raised doubts over the VND700bil. ($31.8m) in revenue that was claimed to have been earned by local films in 2015 when the figures were announced at a workshop held on March 28 in Hanoi.

At the Security World 2016, Keshav Dhakad, regional director of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) for the Asia region talked about Microsoft’s role of trusted advisor in the security worldwide.

The Vietnamese government last week stubbed out cigarette monopoly producer Vinataba’s self-serving ambitions to rid the local market of popular brands from Indonesia’s Sumatra Tobacco.