Young Vietnamese badminton player Pham Cao Cuong has secured 5th place in the latest World Badminton Federation (WBF) rankings for junior players.

 Coach Guillaume Graechen’s players delivered another impressive performance in the second friendly in the UK during their European tour, drawing their hosts U19 Wimbledon 2-2 on March 10.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 16 of the 28 lakes at southern Dong Nai Province's Bien Hoa Airbase have been found to have dangerously high concentrations of dioxin.

VietNamNet Bridge – More people and organisations, including overseas Vietnamese and foreigners, will be eligible to buy and own houses in Viet Nam.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Formula manufacturers and distributors have laughed scornfully at the statement by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) to set ceiling for the formula selling prices, believing that this is unfeasible.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The government and National Assembly will issue 28 new laws to concretise and implement the 2013 Constitution's stipulations on human rights and citizen rights, Justice Minister Ha Hung Cuong said last Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On the morning of the 7th day of the lunar year, the Tich Dien Festival or the King’s Plowing Festival is held in Doi Son commune, Duy Tien district, Ha Nam province, to mark a new year for farming.

 Dame Judi Dench and Jude Law are among the acting nominees in the running for this year's Olivier Awards.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi ranked second and HCM City ranked sixth in the top 10 cities with the cheapest hotel room rates on hotels.com.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors of the Children's Hospital 1 in HCM City have performed a surgery to take a big bun of hair from the stomach of a 12-year-old girl from the southern province of Long An.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Hoang Van Phuc – chief coach of the national football team met the Vietnam Football Federation’s General Secretary Ngo Le Bang on March 9 to inform his decision to withdraw from the hot seat.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In Van Noi commune, the biggest vegetable growing area of Hanoi, farmers spray the vegetable fields with toxic chemical pesticides, while selling away the biological pesticides subsidized by the State.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the education sector, Vietnam is considered a poor spendthrift. It has spent much money on renovating the education curriculums, but has not got the desired effects.

A lot of foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) still keep their operation in Vietnam even though their operation duration stipulated in the investment licenses had finished, and they have not made re-registration for continuous operation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's variety of traditional dances will sink into oblivion if they are not well-preserved, the chairman of the Ha Noi Dancers' Association believes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rice yields for the 2013-14 crop in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have reached the highest level in a decade.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's oldest mobile network operator, MobiFone, will recall nearly 200,000 SIM cards that were issued and allocated to dealers, but were  not activated for the past two years.

The UN Human Rights Council UPR working group on February 7 approved Viet Nam’s UPR Report in the second cycle at its 18th session in Geneva, Switzerland.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Motors Industry Corporation (Vinamotor)'s initial public offering launches in three weeks, but strategic investors remain passive,

VietNamNet Bridge – The Department of Performing Art has officially banned Luu Thi Diem Huong from performing within Vietnam after she was found to have lied about her marital status before competing in Miss Universe 2012.

VietNamNet Bridge – People in Hanoi’s Van Loi Village are still stunned after their houses were destroyed in the lead up to Tet holiday despite hasty deadline and incomplete compensation.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese students have won second and third prizes for math and science at the Search for SEAMEO Young Scientists (SSYS) 9th Regional Congress held in Malaysia from March 3-7.

VietNamNet Bridge - Today, March 11, the rescue forces have expanded the search area to 20,000 km2. Vietnam Air Force has mobilized the most modern patrol aircraft – Casa 212 – for the mission.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Not only beautiful, Ngo Bao Nghi, Tang Thi Nhung and Brianna Do are great talents, full of ambition and expected to be the future ambassadors for women's golf in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tan Trieu Village is only 60km away from HCM City, but might well be on a different planet with its clean air, greenery, and hectare after hectare of pomelo orchards.