Customs officers at Ha Noi's Noi Bai International Airport seized yesterday more than 65 kilos of ivory horns and tusks, believed to come from African rhinocerous and elephants.

 VN in volleyball's Group B at SEA Games; Anh wins stage, leads tour; Archers compete at national championships

 Almost 100 ancient bronze drums, dating back to around 2,000 -2500 years ago, have been showcased at the Museum of Thanh Hoa province.

Scientists believe that every incinerator in Vietnam could be a source of dioxin generation as all of them operate with outdated technologies.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed relevant agencies to install chips in radioactive sources in order to better manage risks, but scientists have warned this will not help.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty five trucks carrying timbers from Laos into Viet Nam have been fined totally VND430 million (US$20,100) after an eight-day inspection at weigh stations in Nghe An Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 10th round of V.League 1 kicks off earlier than usual today with a clash between the top two teams Becamex Binh Duong and Thanh Hoa. All eyes will be on Thanh Hoa Stadium, some 200km from Ha Noi, for the game.

 Vietnamese shooting athletes failed to repeat their gold medal victory after the team finished the World Shooting Championship – ISSF World Cup 2015 with just one bronze medal.

A delegation of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences paid a visit to Iran from April 12-16, with a hope of intensifying cooperation in science between the two countries.

A court seeking justice for millions of Vietnamese AO/dioxin victims opened in the outlying French city of Evry on April 16, a case lodged by French-Vietnamese Tran To Nga who spent 5 years collecting legal and scientific evidence for the process.

 A cooperation agreement on establishing a border guard coordination mechanism was signed between Vietnam and China on April 16.

 Searching efforts have been expanded for the two military aircraft that went missing during their training session off the coast of the central Binh Thuan province, near Phu Quy Island.

Daytime Disco at Saigon Outcast, Product fair to promote green living, Vietnamese stars to perform at EDM concert, Cinematheque to screen two verismo operas, Autraliana dancing, food event to be a ball

 Vietnam welcomes US removal of Cuba from terror list, Vietnamese, Czech officials discuss bilateral relations, NA Vice Chairwoman attends executive leadership programme in US, President meets imprisoned war veterans

 Vietnam once again declares that the country has sufficient legal and historical evidence to affirm its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh on April 16.

 Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV) will team up with forest range department in Tuyen Quang Province to inspect and rescue as soon as possible a rare monkey that is being raised illegally.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ministries and branches are tending to be more abusive in their power when setting up numerous business conditions, thus severely distorting the Vietnamese business environment, experts have said.

 Viet Nam will play against arch-rival Thailand during the upcoming 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore this June.

 Ly Hoang Nam (Viet Nam) and Alberto Lim (Philippines) advanced to the final match of the Asian Closed Junior Championships' boys' doubles event yesterday in India.

 The National Assembly House design by German company gmp International GmbH has just won the Grand Prize 2014 of the Viet Nam Architects' Association.

 Vietnam was expected to maintain the second fastest growing economy in ASEAN-5 in 2015, according to the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook.

 A simple job application form is often more efficient than a complicated application package for Government jobs. Manpower and time is wasted reviewing 10,000 applicants, when there are only 300-400 positions available.

Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg arrived in Hanoi on April 16, beginning her three-day official visit to Vietnam as guest of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A professor at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Dang Van Chuyet, has been to a lot of areas in Tay Bac region, but he said none were as beautiful and imposing as the karst plateau in Ha Giang Province.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong hosted Chinese Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun in Ha Noi yesterday, saying that both sides should enrich co-operation, especially in training law enforcement.