On February 24, Colonel Duong Tu Trong was arrested for investigation related to his help to his elder brother Duong Chi Dung (former director of the Vietnam Maritime Administration) flee.

VietNamNet Bridge – A young woman from Dong Da District, Hanoi, has been fined with VND750,000 ($35) for making a false report to the police.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is home to many different species of snakes, including 5 endemic ones.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is no longer a paradise for foreign football players. Plans to recruit foreign players of football teams have been stalled, waiting for the meeting of sponsors on March 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – Artist Nguyen Quoc Dung awakens very old beauties in a series of photos in the exhibition "Color of Time."

With more than 200 documents and many precious objects, including national treasures, the display of Vietnamese Buddhist Cultural Heritage, held at the National History Museum in Hanoi, has attracted special attention of the public.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Doctor Luan Thanh Truong, head of the medical unit in Thanh An Commune of Can Gio Island, never regretted his decision to volunteer to work here - one hour from the mainland.

Much of Viet Nam’s most famous, traditional and valued cultural heritage has been provided or inspired by Buddhism, a religion which has for centuries been deeply embedded in the national psyche.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Embassy in Australia held a ceremony to mark the 40 th anniversary of the Vietnam – Australia diplomatic ties in Canberra on February 25.

Foreign investors said they would cancel the plans to expand their investment in Vietnam if the expanded projects cannot enjoy investment incentives.

 Global financial groups battled Monday to control the lucrative future of "mobile money", which will enable people to use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards.

 Visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday pressed Ankara to open its ports and airports to ships and planes from Cyprus, while expressing her support for reviving the stalled accession talks between Turkey and the EU.

Just some months after they were extolled as the next-generation businessmen, the young entrepreneurs born in 1980s have resigned from their posts amid the astonishment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Information technology in health check-ups, medicine management and patient treatment is helping reduce overloading in hospitals.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) encourages schools to exercise the self-control in their enrolment. However, universities keep indifferent to the encouragement.

Added value services now serve as the lever for mobile network operators in the context of the current big economic difficulties.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than half of the melaleuca forests in the southernmost province of Ca Mau are at high risk of wildfire due to prolonged dry weather.

Mozilla Foundation announced Sunday it will launch in mid 2013 its widely anticipated Firefox operating system for smartphones in a direct challenge to the duopoly of Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Unemployment is set to increase in HCM City in the coming months as enterprises strive to cut labour costs, citing the ongoing economic recession.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Education and Training Tran Quang Quy has controversially claimed that banning children under five from studying foreign teaching programmes

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam aims to strengthen the brand of its tourism sector in order to attract more foreign tourists.

VietNamNet Bridge – Analysts have forecast a boom of the Japanese investment in Vietnam. The bilateral trade between Vietnam and the US has also been on the rise.

While Ass. Prof. Ha Dinh Duc says the Hoan Kiem lake turtle is worthy of national treasures by its cultural and historical values, cultural researcher Tran Lam Bien denies this, saying that it only has the scientific value.