VietNamNet Bridge - A 10m high wall, about 70m long collapsed on a group of workers below. Consequently, one person died on the spot, four others were injured.

Living in a house of nearly 40 years old which is seriously downgraded, the family of Mr. Kieu Anh Tuan is not allowed to make a repair. Only 30m from the house is a newly-built spacious two-story house.

Chinese meat and seafood of different kinds, from frogs, shrimp to cuttlefish and eels, have been imported in large quantities to Vietnam through illegal channels.

 Three women who had been missing for years -- two of whom disappeared as teenagers -- were found alive in a house in Cleveland, police in the US state of Ohio said.

VietNamNet Bridge – An open air concert celebrating Japanese and Vietnamese music featuring the Ha Noi Brass collective will be held at the Japan Foundation on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of hectares of rice and cereal fields in Quang Nam Province are set to suffer from a serious shortage of water in the coming month, with the region's Dak Mi 4 Hydro-electricity Plant continuing to use up water

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of National Defence General Phung Quang Thanh is leading a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 7th ASEAN Defence Ministerial Meeting, which is slated to take place in Brunei from May 6-8.

Market survey firms, which believe that more and more high income tourists would come to Hanoi, have all predicted that more 5-star hotels would be available in the city by 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 450 instances of illegal deforestation were discovered in the first three months of this year, according to the Viet Nam Administration of Forestry.

University students prove to be the most leisured, because they know definitely that they will graduate their schools.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though the mobile phone sales reportedly dropped dramatically, more and more manufacturers and distributors still jump into the market.

The Vietnamese market is believed to become scalding hot with the presence of the big guy from Belgium Aneuser-Busch Inbev (AB Inbev), slated for the next year end.

VietNamNet Bridge – Industrial zones may become more appealing if tax incentives are re-introduced. This is the thinking behind a draft law on Corporate Income Tax prepared by the Ministry of Finance.

NASA and private sector experts now agree that a man or woman could be sent on a mission to Mars over the next 20 years, despite huge challenges.

Enterprises seek funds to bid for gold; Many local firms in race to expand distribution networks; Hanoi rental market lifts real estate gloom; Electronic traders target innocent rural residents

 VietNamNet Bridge - On the way home from his gold shop, a man in Thua Thien-Hue Province was robbed. The total assets are up to VND1.3 billion or $70,000.

Commercial banks have reported the steady increase in the mobilized capital so far this year. Meanwhile, businesses keep complaining that they lack capital to maintain production and expand business scale.

The cause of death of the three gold miners in Quang Nam province is believed to be suffocation due to lack of oxygen. Every day, the locals still risk their lives to seek gold in gold pits left from the French colonial period.

VietNamNet Bridge – An old man has been determined to have died of A/H1N1 flu in HCM City. This is the first death of A/H1N1 influenza so far this year in the city.

VietNamNet Bridge –After a long holiday, the Vietnamese stock market rallied during two sessions last week.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese and a Thai died yesterday, May 5, after a bus transporting 15 Vietnamese workers collided with a large lorry in Rayong Province, about 140km from Thailand's capital Bangkok.

VietNamNet Bridge – Customs officers and border police at HCM City's Tan Son Nhat Airport seized 7.28kg of African rhino horns being illegally smuggled into Viet Nam on Saturday night.

VietNamNet Bridge – SHB Da Nang lost to Ninh Binh 4-1 in the eighth-round match of V-League yesterday, May 5.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's top chess player, Le Quang Liem, has dropped two places since early last month to 29th ranking by the World Chess Federation's (FIDE).

VietNamNet Bridge – Recently, foreign media reported that German explorers identified that Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai has Southeast Asia’s longest cave formed by volcanoes.