ASEAN gender gap hurts working women; Hau Giang brides to receive further support; Hailstorms destroy rubber trees in Lai Chau; VNFU congress scheduled for June

The Vietnam History Science Association has honored 206 general school students who got high prizes at the national history competition.

Vietcombank, one of the biggest commercial banks in Vietnam, has pioneered in slashing the deposit interest rate to 6 percent per annum. Other banks have unanimously reduced the lending interest rates.

 Three people died and several others were missing in the water in the port of Genoa on Wednesday, after a container ship smashed into a control tower in a night-time accident.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Investment capital has continued to flow into the information technology (IT) sector via mergers and acquisitions after a number of M&A transactions were announced over the past four months.

VietNamNet Bridge – Travel firms have complained that cruise tourists have few opportunities to spend money in Viet Nam since there are very few points of sales serving the visitors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The famed Munich Chamber Choir will hold their first-ever concert in Asia at the Ha Noi Opera House on Thursday to kick off Europe Day 2013 in Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Those foreign-invested enterprises that failed to renew their expired investment certificates before July 1, 2011 may be saved from dissolution as the Government decides to remove such a requirement.

 Dual parenting may be more beneficial than single parenting as it would lead to enhanced brain cells production in the later stage of life, according to a latest Canadian research.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Preventing the illegal consumption of wildlife and protecting the nation's biological and zoological biodiversity needed the involvement of people in all levels of society,

 Bitter-sweet honey exports; Myanmar attracts Vietnamese investors; Call for expanded Delta transport system; Multi-billion projects kindle hope for recovery; Multi-billion projects kindle hope for recovery

 VietNamNet Bridge – After reports of foreign tourists being overcharged by taxi drivers and hotel employees, the city plans to work harder to prevent scams,

VietNamNet Bridge - The organizers of the "Find the 2nd Vietnamese astronaut" program have said that up to 3,490 young people have registered for the selection, which was launched three weeks ago. 

Venerable Thich Tam Kien of the One Pillar Pagoda has sent many petitions to the authorities to call for help to rescue the temple – the most famous relic in Hanoi - but he has had to wait in vain for years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Motorbike manufacturers in Viet Nam are looking to push up exports as domestic market narrows and competition becomes fiercer, according to a Saigon Economics Times report.

An incident occurred 30 minutes after an aircraft of Vietnam Airlines took off from the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City but it was not a fire, Mr. Pham Ngoc Minh - CEO of Vietnam Airlines told VietNamNet.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A short film entitled "16:30" by young director Tran Dung Thanh Huy will be introduced at the Short Film Corner of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Danzhou fishing fleet with 24 vessels of Hainan province, China on the morning of May 6 departed a local fishing port to the Truong Sa fishing ground of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two men broke into the home of the Vice Chairman of Dong Thap province and took a motorcycle. They were arrested on their way to HCM City to sell the vehicle.

 General Motors is recalling nearly 43,000 hybrid vehicles in the United States and around 500 in Canada to fix a defect that could cause a fire in the trunk, the automaker said Monday.

Directors of plays that dealt creatively with social issues even as they entertained the audience were recognised with several awards at a ceremony held recently at the HCM City Theatre and Cinematography University.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's badminton team will participate in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Sudirman Cup at Putra Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, from May 19-26.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A group of 35 Chinese martial artists will perform in Viet Nam this month.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health last Saturday announced that it was suspending temporarily the use of "Quinvaxem," the five-in-one vaccine, for safety reasons.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Tourism Association continues to petition the Government to retain the visa waiver scheme for nationals of seven countries — and in fact to expand it — and not to hike visa fees.