The Republic of Korea (RoK) Tourism Organisation (KTO) launched the ‘RoK Tourism – Encouraging Vietnam’ campaign in Hanoi on April 2 after the success of the ‘RoK Tourism Year in Vietnam’ last year.

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American singer Kyo York has released a music video called Ha Trang (white autumn), a well-known song by the late music composer Trinh Cong Son, on Youtube in commemoration of Son’s upcoming death anniversary.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Street vendors near schools and school canteens will see more food safety and hygiene inspections following an order by the Ha Noi Health Department.

 VietNamNet Bridge – SHB Da Nang have decided to terminate a one-year contract with Argentine striker Gaston Sebastian Merlo early due to a knee injury he is yet to recover from,

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The Foreign Ministry and the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam held a conference on April 2 in Hanoi to announce the results of the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights in the second cycle.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended a flag-raising ceremony at the Cam Ranh Military Port in Khanh Hoa Province this morning to receive two Kilo submarines, the first submarines of Vietnam.

 A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake has rocked northern Chile, just over 24 hours after an 8.2 tremor killed six people, destroyed 2,600 houses and led to mass evacuations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese economists read a lot of statistical reports every day. But that doesn’t mean they trust them.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The General Statistics Office (GSO) launched the mid-term housing and population census on April 1.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has passed Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT)’s proposal to split its largest member unit MobiFone from VNPT as part of the latest restructuring draft plan of the VNPT.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will enjoy strong economic and trade expansion if the country signs the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, with gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast at 13.6% in 2025,

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly's programme on building laws and ordinances will cover 34 bills and two ordinances in 2015, the last year of the 13th tenure of the NA's Law Committee. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese parents, concerned about their children’s character development, have expressed outrage after learning that their children are being taught to lie. The culprit: their teachers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – South Korean and Japanese electronics manufacturers all have stated that they are ready to market television products that receive digital TV signals in accordance with the new DVB-T2/MPEG4 standard.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ever wonder where old motorbikes go to die?

 VietNamNet Bridge - There are a variety of means of investments in the form of contracts in Vietnam. One such form is investment under the Business Cooperation Contract, which offers many benefits, along with some disadvantages as well.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Zhang Jinlai, also known as Liu Xiao Ling Tong, will visit Vietnam from April 4-7. The Chinese actor is best known for his role as the Monkey King (Sun Wukong) in the 1986 television series “Journey to the West”.

Nearly 20 members of the Vietnamese football team came down with diarrhea and fever in Selangor, Malaysia on Tuesday, shortly after a group lunch. The team almost had to forfeit the match against Selangor in the AFC Cup 2014 that night.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ao Dai Festival, part of the Hue Festival 2014, will take place from April 14 to 17 with the participation of 18 designers, 600 designs and 100 models.

Six or seven banks are to be merged this year, according to information disclosed by Nguyen Van Binh, Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, at the monthly government meeting on April 1. This will bring the number of dissolved banks to seven to ten.

With only one contractor bidding on the T2 Terminal of the Noi Bai International Airport and the Tan Vu - Lach Huyen road project, these projects are threatening to cost far more than they should, claims Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A freak hailstorm injured five people in the northern province of Cao Bang on March 31. Thousands of houses and hundreds of hectares of crops were damaged as well.

VietNamNet Bridge – The less developed Central region of Viet Nam harvests distinct cultural values and natural masterpieces largely unknown to outsiders.