Governments from around the world have vowed to take action on the illegal trade in wildlife.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Lunar New Year 2014 or Tet holiday has just ended, but gardeners in Nhat Tan flower village in Hanoi have begun to prepare for the next Tet holiday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Coming to Vietnam in 1960-1970, photographer Bill Thomas Hardt recorded the brutal scenes of war.

Street cafes, in the thoughts of many Vietnamese, mean the shops where people sit on old chairs tasting the glasses of coffee with no clear origin. However, they are getting quite different now.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Student psychology is becoming increasingly complex. This fact requires schools to change sex education methods.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In 2013, the Vietnamese Film Industry has celebrated the 60th anniversary of a decree signed by Uncle Ho to establish the Vietnamese revolutionary cinema sector.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The domestic livestock industry must find a way to reduce its production cost and become more competitive, or give in to the market domination of imported meat.

Vietnamese investors are considering building casinos worth billions of dollars in Quang Ninh province and Phu Quoc Island to attract Chinese travelers after noting the sharp rise in the number of Chinese travelers to Vietnam recently.

Though a new decree stipulating the punishments on the violations of the e-commerce law has been released, lawyers and analysts still argue about if Facebook would be fined if it does not register its operation to the watchdog agency.

HCM City vows to dissolve 866 unlicensed privately run nursery classes after a series of child abuse cases were discovered. However, this proves to be an “impossible mission.”

VietNamNet Bridge – Nine items, closely related to the development of Viet Nam from the Ly Dynasty (1009-1225) to the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945), were recognized as national treasures. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Belinda Smith was working as a science teacher in a school near Liverpool when she decided it was time for a change of lifestyle.

 VietNamNet Bridge - To go to school or go to work, people and children in Son Ba commune in Son Ha district of the central province of Quang Ngai have to risk their lives to cross the Rin River in a very odd way.

VietNamNet Bridge – It is portrait season at historical and cultural sites in Ha Noi, such as Van Mieu and Hoan Kiem Lake. During Tet, enterprising professional and amateur painters and fine arts students can earn as much as VND1 million a day

 VietNamNet Bridge – A photobook published by the HCM City General Publishing House released last week depicts the lives of soldiers and people who live and work on the Truong Sa (Spratly Islands) archipelago.

VietNamNet Bridge – In years recently past, Vietnamese mainstream music, V-Pop, has made great leaps, even on other countries’ shores with artists like My Tam and Thu Minh taking awards

 VietNamNet Bridge – Becoming Southeast Asia champion in triple jump in 2013, Nguyen Van Hung is now aiming farther, at the continental competition field, the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, the Republic of Korea.

The online ad market has not yet developed in Vietnam not because of the poor technology infrastructure and the lack of the workforce, but because of the lack of people’s confidence.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The year 2014 will be a busy one for the national volleyball teams as they will take part in tournaments organised all year round.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Completion of a draft law on sea and island resources and environment will be the main priority of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's General Department of Sea and Islands this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ricky Foresters, the 33-year-old American owner of Hanoi’s only canine obedience centre Alpha Dog, is helping the capital city’s dog owners train their beloved pets.

VietNamNet Bridge – Although the project awaits approval from the Prime Minister, the equitisation of Airports Corporation of Viet Nam (ACV) this year has attracted the interest of many domestic and foreign investors. 

 Pho Cao is a commune of Dong Van District, Ha Giang Province. It has a total population of 5,000, mostly the Mong people. One of the most distinctive features of the area is the Trinh tuong houses which are surrounded by stone fences.

 Brain scans show a complex string of numbers and letters in mathematical formulae can evoke the same sense of beauty as artistic masterpieces and music from the greatest composers.

A lot of people in Mekong River Delta spend billions of dong to build the “castles” to attract salanganes, raising the worries about the environment pollution and bird flu breakout.