VietNamNet Bridge - To make illicit profits, the owner of the Gucci - Milano shop in Ho Chi Minh City directed his staff to turn Gucci brand products into Chinese goods to evade import tax.

Chinese businessmen have been collecting the roots of pepper plants in Chu Se district of Gia Lai province, the biggest pepper growing area in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese chess player Vo Thi Kim Phung knocked down the second seed of the U20 Asia Chess Championship, whose Elo is 2250, to rank first in the sixth round.

VietNamNet Bridge - Meritorious Artist Ho Kieng died at 4.15pm on April 3 at Nguyen Trai Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, at the age of 87.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of April 4, Mr. Dinh Nhan - Chair of Minh Hoa district, Quang Binh province, confirmed the death of an adult elephant in the forest of the Minh Hoa forest farm.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the near future, traffic rule violators may pay fines at traffic police stations, via ATMs, not having to go to the treasury or banks any more.

 U.S. Federal Reserve vice chair Janet Yellen on Thursday signaled that the central bank's monetary easing policies will continue until the U.S. economy substantially improves.

At 14.30 on April 4, the border guard forces of Quang Tri province in coordination with the police of Xavanakhet province of Laos arrested the third suspect in the massacre of five Vietnamese woodmen on March 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese goalkeeper Dang Thi Kieu Trinh was voted the AFF's Best Female Player of the Year at the ASEAN Football Federation Awards on Wednesday in Malaysia.

The police forces on April 3 shot to death one and arrested four drug traffickers in the northern province of Hoa Binh, seizing over 7kg of heroin, 1,000 pills of synthetic drugs and 1kg of ectasy.

The price for a bowl of "pho" at present remains the same with that in 2011. This is a rare thing because for many years, the growth rate of the essential food was relatively stable. However, it was the stability of the price growth, not the price.

VietNamNet Bridge – The central bank's move last week to cut the dong interest rate cap from 1-month to 12-month terms by 0.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent per annum has caused economists to wonder

 Rahul Gandhi, often described as India's prime minister-in-waiting, said in a keynote address designed to raise his profile that the poor must see the benefits of economic growth.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Land erosion in the Mekong Delta provinces, where rivers crisscross, is displacing thousands of families and damaging dozens of houses.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thua Thien-Hue authorities last night re-enacted a ceremony that served as a national celebration under the Nguyen dynasty in the former royal capital city of Hue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Violin virtuoso Maxim Fedetov will lead Russian and Vietnamese musicians in two classical concerts in Ha Noi and HCM City.

While the watchdog agency keeps excited about the achievements gained in 2012, travel firms and people think this is a kind of “unfounded optimism.”

 Authorities in Shanghai began the mass slaughter of poultry at a market after the H7N9 bird flu virus, which has killed five people in China, was detected there, state media said Friday.

The State Bank of Vietnam’s inspectors have come to a conclusion that the loans to Dang Van Thanh and his family’s companies some years ago were illegal, forcing Thanh to pay debts to reduce the outstanding loans to the allowed level.

 Self combusting furniture leaves authorities in Nghe An Province puzzled; HCM City to raise $3.8m for Fund for the Poor; Huge heroin haul uncovered in Hoa Binh

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rapid modernisation and modern lifestyles are threatening the survival of the ancient Cham culture and other ethnic traditions in central Quang Nam Province,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese athletes will test their skills at the World Youth Weightlifting Championships beginning on Saturday in Uzbekistan.

VietNamNet Bridge – The university lecturer halls nowadays look far different from that in the past.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Mekong Delta groundwater's quality and quantity have declined due to local residents' over exploitation for daily life and business use.

What will happen if Vietnam allows foreign investors to hold 50 percent or more of listed companies’ shares?