After prolonged drought, a week of continuous heavy rain coupled with strong winds damaged a large area of winter-spring rice in central provinces.

VietNamNet Bridge - After a series of overcharging cases against foreign tourists, Hanoi authorities will inspect several taxi firms that usually break the rules. The firms that repeat violations will have their license revoked.

A new law on tobacco harm-reduction that bans smoking in public places such as schools, hospitals and workplaces took effect on May 1. But it immediately has been violated publicly.

VietNamNet Bridge – Out of 440 universities and colleges in the country, 56 are for the performing arts and of these only 20 cover all aspects of the entertainment arts.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 2013 Khau Vai Love Market Culture-Tourism Week kicked off on May 4 in Meo Vac District, the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will present George Frederic Handel's oratorio Messiah, one of the masterpieces of choral music, on May 8 and 9 at the Opera House.

Female sex workers get help to integrate into community; New ethnic affairs website launched; PM approves project to care for deprived children; Trafficked children returned to Vietnam

Exhausted after pulling five students to the riverbank safely, a 19-year-old boy drowned in the Lam River in central Nghe An Province on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – In recent times, Vietnam has come to be seen as an attractive destinations for retailing with increasing numbers of shopping centres opening in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local audiences will have a chance to watch two of the world’s time-honored classic plays, namely “Messiah” and “Gulliver's Travels”, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City this month,

A meeting of the Steering Committee of the “Wildlife Consumption in Vietnam ” (WLC) project took place on May 3 in Hanoi to strengthen biodiversity conservation in the country.

PM welcomes senior Chinese official; Vietnam Navy buys Russian emergencies simulator; Vietnam, Japan promote defence cooperation; Deputy PM receives Czech Ambassador

VietNamNet Bridge – An infant and three teenagers have died and seven others are receiving medical treatment after eating corn cakes suspected of being mouldy in the northern mountain province of Ha Giang's Quan Ba District.

VietNamNet Bridge – Over 300,000 people got infected with influenza virus in the first three months of 2013, according to Tran Dac Phu, Deputy Head of the Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has been ranked among the world’s greatest destinations for software testing by British A.T. Kearney Consultancy Group in several years,

Litter has caused the serious pollution to the coastal communes of Hau Loc district in Thanh Hoa province. The waste treatment project has been drawn up, but it has not been kicked off yet.

VietNamNet Bridge – A series of festivals kicked off the tourism season over the past week as the industry launched a fight back following news that the number of international visitors to Viet Nam

VietNamNet Bridge – A collective grave of 164 martyrs who laid down their lives during the anti-US resistance war has been found in Tan Hoa Commune, Tan Chau District, southern Tay Ninh Province.

The economic development model which relies much on the investment capital increase is believed to be the “culprit” that causes the high public debt.

Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans are on the rise, according to a report issued on Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

VietNamNet Bridge – A new law on tobacco harm-reduction bans smoking in public places such as schools, hospitals and workplaces.

HAGL to earn living from rubber, sugarcane; Nha Trang eyes new five-star hotel; Low-cost homes seen as lifeline for troubled developers; Saigon Port to be equitized in 2014

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese people will get a chance to immerse themselves in European culture when Europe Days 2013 kicks off in Ha Noi and HCM City next week.

VietNamNet Bridge – After a year of economic restructuring, Viet Nam still faces grave problems including high inventory, bad debt and falling purchasing power.

VietNamNet Bridge – On May 2, several residents of Phuoc Vinh commune in the central province of Ninh Thuan got poisoning from alcohol. One was reported dead and three others were treated at a local hospital.