Book gives Italian slant on Viet Nam; Jade statue of King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong displayed in Hue; Performing arts competition promotes traditional culture and national identity; Experts warn Hoa Chau Citadel is suffering deterioration

  Viet Nam strengthens wide-ranging ties with Qatar; Indian and Vietnamese Communist parties convene; Journalists give opinions to Constitution amendments; Vietnam journalist delegation welcomed in Laos

The country's referee circle has been shaken by the information that Mr. Dang Thanh Ha, a member of the referee committee of the Vietnam Professional Football JSC (VPF) is accused of embezzlement.

 Italy's financial sector has stabilized but the continued slow growth remains a major threat to its banks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday.

Ship owners have put their old ships on sale to get money to stop loss. However, it’s very difficult to find buyers at this moment, when even ship demolishing companies also refuse with a shake of the head.

VietNamNet Bridge - While singers who live by scandals and lip-sync are paid highly; there are instrumentalists accept dirt-cheap remuneration to live and die with the job.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s pay television market could face fierce competition with the proposed entrance of newcomers.

 The Cypriot government gave assurances on Tuesday that the Bank of Cyprus will not be wound down, after several hundred bank employees demonstrated in protest at the appointment of an administrator to run the bank.

The market has cooled after a long hot development period. The owners of rotary hotpot shops now have to get by on vouchers, while trying to sell their lines.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Phan Chau Trinh Culture Foundation has announced awards for outstanding people in the fields of culture and education, translation, research and Vietnamese studies.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has attributed the stagnation of the tourism industry to the lack of money to run tourism promotion campaigns.

Emily Whitehead is kind of a big deal. At age seven, she is the only child to have beaten back leukemia with the help of a new treatment that turned her own immune cells into targeted cancer killers.

There were the “billionaires’ islets” in Mekong Delta, where farmers got rich with their catfish farming.

VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 14,000 hospital beds were additionally arranged in the local hospital system last year but the overload at local hospitals has still remained a headache, heard a conference in Hanoi last Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Power authorities are determined to introduce economical power usage this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – A concert featuring a journey of music of the U.K. and famous modern ballet Dream Puzzles will be held at HCMC Opera House on at 8 p.m. March 29 thanks to HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera and British Council.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Government bond yields have kept falling on the primary and secondary market over the past week as banks with a cash surplus have sharply increased bond buying.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deniz Inan will join forces with the Saigon Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Do Kien Cuong for ‘Opus 2 – Kayo’s Journey’ at the Music Hall at HCMC Conservatory of Music at 8 p.m. on March 30.

Discussion on the draft amendments to Constitution 1992, full-time National Assembly deputies disagreed with the way that some agencies responded to the proposal of removing Article 4 on the role of the Communist Party.

A lot of Vietnamese students have been trying to go studying abroad just because they want to avoid the compulsory military service.

Japan committed US$2 billion ODA to Vietnam; Fishery sector aims for stronger capacity; Consumers encouraged to buy local products; Central coast focuses on tourism development

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 5,600 traffic accidents were reported over the past two months of this year, killing nearly 2,000 people and injuring almost 5,800 others, a recent conference on traffic safety heard yesterday.

16 injured in head-on bus/truck crash; RoK: guest workers to benefit by returning home; Traffic order needed to reduce road death toll; Focus to be directed on emerging diseases

VietNamNet Bridge – “Purity” - the autumn-winter 2013 collection by Vietnamese designer Quynh Paris - was performed in the Fashion Week in the city of Los Angeles, the USA recently.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese enterprises are increasingly investing overseas, especially in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, it has been announced.