VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the southern province of Binh Duong have conducted inspections on petrol stations, and found that 13 out of the 40 they visited were violating fuel trading regulations.

VietNamNet Bridge – A 15-minute whirlwind blew away the roof and damaged over 60 houses in Hong Hoa commune of Quang Binh province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three people died in a head-on crash between a taxi and a truck in the southern province of Dong Nai in the early morning of April 15.

Weakness in U.S. stocks continued into the third week as an upbeat government report on retail sales was offset by a sell-off in technology stocks including Apple.

VietNamNet Bridge – On April 8, nine people in a family in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau ate poisonous mushroom soup. Two of them died while six are in the hospital.

A lot of well-known big hotels in Vietnam have changed hands recently. However, they would not change their names.

VietNamNet Bridge – 1,000 bronze items of the Dong Son civilization are now exhibited at the History and Revolution Museum of Thua Thien-Hue province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fantastic dance performances by Indonesian artists and Vietnamese students on Saturday at HCM City's Youth Cultural House kicked off a week-long cultural festival in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three high-school students in the northern province of Phu Tho were swept away on April 14, while playing on the bank of the Red River.

VietNamNet Bridge – The ocean sunfish which was netted by a fisherman in the central province of Nghe An on April 9, has been given to the Vietnam Museum of Nature.

The 96th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday in New York's Columbia University with the Philadelphia Inquirer receiving the coveted public service Pulitzer.

VietNamNet Bridge - The traditional New Year of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, Chol-chnam-Thmay was celebrated in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam on April 15.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities have detected a banned chemical named Trifluralin in fish sold at the city’s Binh Dien Wholesale Market.

Japan will lend 60 billion U.S. dollars to the International Monetary Fund to help prevent the European sovereign debt crisis from dragging down the global economy, the Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Singer and actress Nhat Kim Anh won the Favourite TV Series Actress award at the sixth HCM City Television Awards on Saturday by polling more than 16,000 audience votes.

Human rights agency operations discussed; First Vietnamese guest-workers return to RoK; Guest-workers urged to obey RoK law; Foreigner’s remains found on Con Dao

VietNamNet Bridge – An international kite competition will be held on the beach area at the Victoria Hoi An Beach Resort and Spa on May 19.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Hoang Thien progressed to the second round of the Men's Futures international tennis tournament after beating Chinese Zhu De-Long 2-0 in HCM City on Monday, April 16.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Health Ministry’s list of new prices for 447 health services cannot become effective on April 15 as planned, since necessary preparations required by the applicable law have yet to be completed,

Jim Yong Kim, a U.S. candidate and president of Dartmouth University, has been selected to head the World Bank, the Washington-based global lender announced the decision on Monday with little suspense.

VietNamNet Bridge – Poor public awareness about prevention of hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease as well as lack of basic equipment and inappropriate medical care have led to an outbreak of the disease in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge – A series of big Vietnamese commercial banks have announced that they plan to issue long term international bonds.

VietNamNet Bridge – National cycling team member Le Van Duan won the third stage of the nation's most prestigious cycling tournament, the 24th HCM City Television (HTV) Cup on Monday, April 16.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign individuals and organisations would have the right to establish libraries in the country, under the draft law on libraries, discussed at the 7th session of the National Assembly Standing Committee yesterday, April 16.

Hanoi honours handicrafts villages, artisans; Paris hosts exhibition of Hanoi’s Old Quarter; HCM City awards television talent; Over 200,000 visitors to HCM City Tourism Fest; Exchange on Japanese literature