VietNamNet Bridge – Fifty nine entries of “World heritages in your hands” art contest by UNESCO Office in Hanoi and Panasonic Vietnam will enter the final round which will be announced in June.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After leaving his village in central Thanh Hoa Province to earn a living as a construction worker in Ha Noi, Le Xuan Thuan, 35, started missing his house. It was large and comfortable – and stable.

More and more investors have expressed their willingness to set up huge oil refineries in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – More smuggled gold has been launched onto the local market due to the widening gap between local and global gold prices in recent times,

 VietNamNet Bridge – It's a shame to watch the most beautiful flower specimens wilt and fade. But for one man this is not a problem. He became a flower embalmer and nurtures the secret of keeping petals fresh for years.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Ha Linh Thu will represent Vietnamese fashion designers at the J Spring Fashion Show, which will take place on the Seine River on May 30.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Filipino couple has been put on trial for fraud at the Hanoi People’s Court. Their victims were foreign visitors to Vietnam.

Faced with poverty and hunger after liberation in 1975, a Gie Trieng man levelled hills and mountains with his own bare hands to create a wet rice field legacy for his family and fellow villagers.

HCM City marks Liberation Day; Increasing cooperation with Japanese prefecture; British town honours President Ho Chi Minh

Le Duan Street in HCM City’s District 1 has been decorated with colourful flowers and sparkling decorations to mark the holiday period.

Businesswoman Truong Thi Tuyet Nga, who won the title “Successful Lady” of Mrs. Vietnam Pageant 2009 was arrested on April 2 for asset appropriation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of domestic and international tourists went to Ly Son island district on April 29-30 to participate in the requiem for soldiers of the Hoang Sa flotilla.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) is gathering opinions on a draft decree on sports betting.

Over a period of ten years, more than 300 businesses responsible for polluting the environment have been taken to task, but just as fast upto 1,000 new ones have sprung up.

Only several stunted saplings have been seen on the newly opened roads in Hanoi. While the natural area of Hanoi has increased by four folds, the greenery area has not increased accordingly.

 Bich Giang villager Nguyen Hinh is waiting for his first batch of wood-ear fungi, hoping that it will provide a stable income for his family.

VietNamNet Bridge - The draft amendment of the 1992 Constitution will be discussed in the upcoming National Assembly session, in the two day session that will be televised live.

 VietNamNet Bridge – When my colleague asked me to meet a monk who had painted hundreds of paintings, I was dubious. I'm not a big fan of paintings – and I doubted how good the art of an untrained monk would be.

VietNamNet Bridge – There are still 240,000 cubic meters of soil and sludge contaminated with dioxin in Dong Nai Province’s Bien Hoa Airport area not buried, posing high risks to people’s health and the environment,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Policies should be made more liberal for foreign investors to get involved in debt trading, and thus bad debt settlement can be accelerated,

Vietnam’s exports to Japan have been supported not only by bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, but also by the new economic stimulus package launched by the Japanese government worth $1.4 trillion.

A lot of state agencies and enterprises, which want to utilize open source software, complain that they don’t know how they can choose “genuine products” in the market where most of the available products have not been tested in quality.

 VietNamNet Bridge – News that a baby in the US was cured of HIV give new hope for Vietnamese babies born with the virus, said Truong Huu Khanh,

Hanoi’s parents have been intensively preparing their children for the entrance exams to “star” primary schools.

Travel firms complain that cruise tourists don’t have the opportunities to spend money in Vietnam since there are very few points of sales serving the special travelers.