After three weeks of meeting with voters before the 5th session of the National Assembly, which opens today, May 20, the NA delegation of HCM City has acquired hundreds of comments across all sectors.

The highway connecting the city of Da Nang to Quang Ngai province is scheduled for completion in 2017, with four lanes and will be upgraded to six lanes with maximal speed of 120 km/h.

Mrs. Monie Phuong, Thanh Thai King’s granddaughter, has donated more than 200 artifacts and rare documents of the Nguyen Dynasty, the last feudal reign in Vietnam, to the ancient city of Hue.

Three mechanics were fixing a freight elevator on the 18th floor of an apartment building in Dai Thanh new residential area in Thanh Tri district, Hanoi. Suddenly the elevator dropped, killing all mechanics on the site.

Heart-shaped kites decorated with the map of Vietnam, Vietnamese naval soldiers in Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago, or octopus. Snake kites of 160 artisans flew on the sky of Hoi An ancient town in the afternoon of May 18.

 Myanmar President Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, in one of the most symbolic US gestures yet to support his reforms.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Friday, May 17, met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who affirmed that Viet Nam is a strategic partner in Southeast Asia for Belarus.

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The State has decided to form up a competitive broadcasting and transmission market, considering allowing more capable telecom groups to provide the services.

VietNamNet Bridge – Once possessed by the sweet flavour of Hue cake, which used to be very popular in the former capital, a local resident has created a traditional entertainment programme of song and dance

 VietNamNet Bridge – After nearly three years' infrastructure upgrades, Bach Ma (White Horse) National Park in Thua Thien-Hue Province reopened to visitors in late April.

VietNamNet Bridge – People from across the country have submitted over 1,700 messages expressing concern over the unsustainable growth of the national economy, corruption and the widening rich-poor gap, among other issues, to the National Assembly,

 Veteran rocker Rod Stewart notched his first UK number one album for 34 years as "Time", his first LP of new material for 20 years, shot to the top of the charts.

Summer is not the time for Vietnamese students to relax, but the time for them to learn the things which are not taught at school.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) have complained that they bear the discriminatory treatment when they are prohibited to purchase materials from farmers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The telecom market’s underlying trends are coming into sharp focus.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has called for more support from international communities to complete programmes for new rural development initiatives in localities.

Hanoi’s authorities have requested relevant branches to take urgent actions to eliminate pickpockets, vendors. The promise is the debt.

VietNamNet Bridge – Scientists believe that an aloewood treasure does not exist in nature. Aloewood is very rare in Vietnam, while it is easy to make counterfeit aloewood.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese students who studied abroad are also finding it difficult to find suitable jobs on their return to Vietnam.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed raising the age limit defining a child from 16 to 18 in its draft amendments to the Law on Protection, Care and Education of Children issued in 2004.

VietNamNet Bridge – National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has seen some progress in its much delayed equitisation process with news that the carrier will start preparing the documents for its initial public offering during the next two months.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A change of career in middle age seems risky, especially when leaving a high-profile staff job to run your own business.