Near-poor households to get preferential loans; $2b windfall to aid poor students; Youth arrested for attack on police; Workers unhappy with low wages; Human activity polluting, degrading nation's lands

 Vietnamese windsurfers won first prizes in both the men’s and women’s categories at the 2013 International Windsurf Race that closed in the central province of Binh Thuan on February 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ten people, including six in one family, were killed in two explosions around midnight yesterday, Feb 24, in HCM City’s busy Nam Ki Khoi Nghia Street.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dong Van Stone Plateau in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang will be developed into a national tourism complex by 2020.

 Denmark's food authorities confirmed Sunday that they found a slaughterhouse on Peninsula Jutland illegally mix both horsemeat and pork in pizzas labelled as pure beef.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Returning to Viet Nam after receiving a master’s degree in a high-tech field, Bui Khanh Chi was looking for a job that would allow her to pursue research.

VietNamNet Bridge - Associate Professor Ha Dinh Duc has proposed the Hanoi authorities to ask for the government’s recognition of the Hoan Kiem Lake turtle as the national treasure.

Artist Dao Anh Khanh will dance, sing and perform rock music for special guests at his upcoming show Dao Xuan tonight at his house in Ngoc Thuy, Gia Lam District, Ha Noi.

With the weak resistance and the lack of transparency, the Vietnamese finance market would be shaky on any bad piece of news.

  NA Standing Committee meets in Hanoi; Leading lawmaker urges province to industrialise; Serbian diplomat visits Vietnam; NA Chairman hails Nghe An’s investment promotion

 Billions of dollars will be at stake Monday at the opening of a complex trial to determine how much BP should pay for the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

 Oscars host Seth MacFarlane kicked off an unpredictable 85th Academy Awards show, with Iran hostage drama "Argo" vying to beat Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" on Hollywood's biggest night.

Stocks are now the choice of many investors in the context of the gloomy stock market, unclear gold market and stable dollar price. Trillions of dong are believed to be pumped into the stock market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 90 per cent of workers had returned to work following the Tet holiday and only a small number had left their jobs,

 VietNamNet Bridge – AS Roma will face the Viet Nam national team in a friendly as part of their Asia Tour this June, FIFA official Mae Mua told Viet Nam News on Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – H’Linh H’Mok, an Ede ethnic minority student at Central Highland University, has won several prestigious Cuban and Mexican scholarships.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ethnic minority children taught in both their native language and Vietnamese are more active and confident and fare better in educational settings,

The transport ministers of Vietnam, Laos and Thailand gathered at a conference in Hanoi on February 21 to discuss objectives and solutions to enhance trilateral transport cooperation.

VietNamNet Bridge – The exhibition of documents related to the sovereignty of Vietnam to the Hoang Sa Archipelago (Paracels) attracted more than 1,200 foreign visitors, including nearly 300 Chinese.

Asia-Pacific exports expected to increase; Inflation holds steady despite Tet demand; Surge of power plants to plug into Viet Nam market

The Hanoi and HCM City education departments have sent an ultimatum to substandard people-founded high schools, saying that they have to upgrade their education quality, or get eliminated.

After receiving money from Sonadezi, the local people in Ba Cheo canal area have begun re-organizing their lives from scratch.

Backup battery packs have become cheaper than ever in Vietnam. No one could imagine before that a high technology product could be so cheap.

The Ministry of Transport (MOT) believes that it would be better to demolish old ships and sell as scrap iron. However, the current laws don’t allow to do this.

Beautiful beaches and islands have always been the most attractive things that lure tourists to the city. Meanwhile, a lot of original cultural resources of the city remain unfamiliar to tourists.