Hard-engineering solutions have been adopted on a large scale to deal with the on-going intensive drought that has beleaguered the central coastal provinces, particularly those in the basin of Vu Gia-Thu Bon rivers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The British TNT Theatre will present a stage production based on children story Gullivers Travel to a Vietnamese audience next month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People who leave litter on streets or in urban drainage systems may be fined between VND500,000 (USD23.8) and VND1 million (USD47.6),

While keeping complaining about the small scale of the Vietnamese market and the changeable policies, foreign automobile manufacturers still have been flocking to Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The qualifying round for the Miss Jewelry 2013 pageant will take place from May 19 to June 21. 

Extra classes are the main source of income for many teachers. In exam season, a teacher has 4-6 extra teaching shifts a day.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has rejected a proposal by the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group for the merger of their two mobile network companies, Vinaphone and MobiFone.

VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 17 officials of Binh Phuoc Province will have to repay more than VND25 billion (USD1.2 million) after they illegally sold rubber plantation land.

VietNamNet Bridge – A “seeking second Vietnamese to fly into space” programme was launched in Hanoi on April 15 by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Unilever Vietnam and Axe Brand.

VietNamNet Bridge - They are boys and girls who are only at the age of twenty, but their talent has been appreciated by famous technology groups in the world.

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Van Hung, acting director of the Southern office of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said on April 12 that the Mekong Delta is one of seven key regions

Rice market awaits news on Filipino buyers; Property trading to be put under tighter control; HSBC Vietnam unveils profit for the first time; HCM City says to choke off slow-moving projects

VietNamNet Bridge – Restructuring of State-owned enterprises (SOE) is moving at a snail’s pace and it will take many more years until the process is completed,

  Pilot plan to lift food safety; Ha Noi approves bird flu prevention plan; Vietnam in the face of growing gender imbalance; Journalists attend world conference in RoK

 VietNamNet Bridge – A system of lava caves including one considered as the longest lava cave of Southeast Asia has been discovered in the southern province of Dong Nai,

 VietNamNet Bridge – A mother in HCM City has denounced a local kindergarten teacher for using sleeping pills on her two-year-old child.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the central province of Binh Dinh are struggling to find water to irrigate their rice paddies due to severe drought.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese people read 0.8 books a year on average, said an official of the Ministry of Culture - Sports - Tourism at a press conference last week. The figure stunned the press.

On the morning of April15, people went to the People’s Committee of Ward 9 in Tuy Hoa city,  Phu Yen province for document authentication, but they were surprised to see the announcement on the office gate "The office is closed for a meeting."

VietNamNet Bridge – A new type of food and mouth disease (FMD) virus has emerged in the provinces of Ha Tinh and Thanh Hoa, in central Vietnam, but there is no suitable vaccine for it.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Vice Chairman Le Minh Tri has been appointed as the vice chief of the Central Committee for Internal Affairs.

A Vietnamese worker was reported to have died in Angola on April 12. This is the third Vietnamese worker who died in this country in the last few months. All of them came from the central province of Nghe An.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s famous fashion designer - Duc Hung, will bring his ao dai to the U.S. to attend a painting exhibition and Vietnamese ao dai show in New York on April 24.

The current economic difficulties have brought the golden opportunities to the big tycoons to crush their quarries.

VietNamNet Bridge - Through collecting people’s opinions on the draft amendment to the Constitution 1992, there is the proposal of resuming the country’s name as Democratic Republic of Vietnam.