Anthony Garbelotto is doubling down on Vietnamese basketball this year.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev agreed on April 6 to put Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant project in Ninh Thuan Province on the fast track.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to allow the growing of only 10,000 hectares of macadamia by 2020 in regions with suitable weather conditions as there has been no sufficient data for a bigger acreage.

 Daniel Mariuma and Moti Saadia, two of Israel’s leading DJs, will perform in Vietnam as part of Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival on April 11 and the ‘Israel Party’ in Ho Chi Minh on April 18.

 The Vietnam Recycling Platform on April 6 launched the Vietnam Recycles programme to collect and recycle used, end-of-life and broken electronic equipments in Viet Nam for free.

 Individuals, enterprises and organisations will be allowed to decide the fees for domain name registration, as the government is set to only charge fees for the use of domain names.

 Viet Nam's second largest mobile network operator, MobiFone, earned nearly VND2.10 trillion (US$100 million) in profits during the first quarter of this year, reported VnEconomy.

VietNamNet Bridge - Official reports show a decrease in the Japanese foreign direct investment in Vietnam in recent months. Some analysts have warned the downward tendency would continue.

 Hundreds of flights have been cancelled ahead of a planned strike by French air traffic controllers.

Local authorities and people dredged canals and pumped water from rivers and dams to save crops in Dak Lak Province, which is facing a lengthy drought.

Agriculture restructuring aims for brand popularity abroad, Fake cosmetics products flood market, Cai Mep int’l port receives largest ship ever, HCM City: Heat in high-end apartments, VTV says to privately fund television tower

Vietnamese real estate developer Hoang Anh Gia Lai and Singapore-based Rowsley Ltd decided to call off their agreement to build a US$550-million mixed-use development in Yangon, Myanmar, the two companies told media.

 Women in New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Viet Nam continue to outshine their regional peers, according to MasterCard's latest Index of Women's Advancement (H2 2014) released last week.

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 A fire that broke out on a Russian nuclear submarine at an Arctic naval shipyard has been put out, Russian media report.

 Some 250,000 people living in the Dong Van Rocky Plateau region in northern mountainous Ha Giang province have suffered for many years from a lack of water during the dry season.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Cong Vinh, Pham Thanh Luong and Nguyen Van Quyet have been shortlisted for the Golden Ball award, announced the organisers yesterday, April 7.

 VietNamNet Bridge - American singer Demi Lovato will join a music event called YAN Beatfest in HCM City this May.

 Miss Ao Dai Vietnam Tran Ngoc Lan Khue has been named by two famous magazines, (Missosology and Sash Factor), as a potential top 10 contestant for Miss World 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – The information and communications ministry yesterday afternoon permitted Vietnam Television to air Vietnam Idol 2015, recognising that VTV spared no efforts to tighten its content management before broadcasting shows.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Becamex Binh Duong coach Nguyen Thanh Son is hoping for a draw in their clash against South Korea's Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in the Asian Football Confederation Champions League today, April 8.

  Lawmakers on April 7 discussed abolishing the death penalty for several crime categories as well as criteria for commuting capital punishment sentences to life imprisonment.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Van Du, the owner of Ngoc Linh ginseng garden, and former deputy head of an herb center, is called the “ginseng King”. He governs a sky-high area.

VietNamNet Bridge - ADB has predicted that Vietnam’s public debt may reach 60 percent of GDP by 2016.

  The Finance Ministry will inspect 20 foreign shipping companies located in big ports, including HCM City, Hai Phong and Hanoi this month, Deputy Minister of Finance Vu Thi Mai said.