VietNamNet Bridge – Science and technology have significantly contributed to promoting the restructuring and growth of the national economy and the rising value of high-tech products will account for 45 percent of GDP by 2020.

 French cruise ship visits Viet Nam; Cheap holiday tours snapped up; Country seeks to attract Russians; Tourism Day fest promotes local trips

VietNamNet Bridge – With only a few weeks remaining before the London Olympic organisers announce the final list of participants, Vietnamese athletes are hastening to pick up the last tickets.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) said it has not received any applications for making outward investments from the Vietnamese businessman Pham Dinh Nguyen, who won the bid to buy the US smallest town Bufford.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's ministries and sectors simplified more than 2,800 administrative procedures in the first quarter,

VietNamNet Bridge - Tuyet Loan, 62, who is called "Vietnam's Jazz Queen," had an impromptus show with American band--Mary McBride, in HCM City on April 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – A drum festival titled “Sound of Vietnamese Spirit” took place at Nghinh Luong Dinh, on the bank of Huong River, Hue City on the evening of April 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam national men’s football team leaps up three grades to claim the 97th position in the latest FIFA rankings for April, released on April 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – A fisherman in Nghe An province, central Vietnam, has caught an ocean sunfish, which rarely appears in the sea of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – As his wife practiced usury--Mr. Nguyen Van Quoc, Deputy Party Secretary of the island district of Phu Quoc, in Kien Giang province, has been dismissed.

Aussie Embassy reveals new aid; Drowsy driver gets 12 years for deadly accident; Vietnamese entrepreneurs receive Lao Friendship Medal

The petition by the farmers, who are the creditors of Bianfishco, to the Can Tho City People’s Court, for conducting bankruptcy proceedings for Bianfishco, has been refused by the court.

Policymakers in different countries should seize the moment to strengthen cooperation, bolster global financial firewall and address key economic challenges, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),

VietNamNet Bridge – The increasing number of enterprises filing for bankruptcy in HCM City in the first quarter of the year has resulted in a surge in unemployment insurance claims.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) called for an immediate observer mission to Syria, the group said in a statement on Thursday.

Lawmakers agreed that the revised law on publications should target issues relating to publishing, printing, distribution management and curbing illegal printing at a National Assembly Standing Committee meeting yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the evening of April 9-10 at the ongoing Hue Festival, musical instruments made from waste by Max Vandervorst from Blegium attracted thousands of Hue residents and visitors.

VietNamNet Bridge – Phan Huy Nghia, 30, in Nghi Loc district of the central province of Nghe An, was arrested for cutting off the penis and part of testis of his neighbor.

VietNamNet Bridge – The eighth annual HCM City Tourism Day Festival, which opened yesterday, April 12, aims to promote more domestic tours.

The U.S. military said Thursday the rocket launched by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fell into sea after the launch failed.

VietNamNet Bridge – Outbound tours with the departure time in late April or early May have been nearly fully booked. Going abroad is the choice of many Vietnamese people who want to save money in the context of high inflation.

VietNamNet Bridge – France will remain the main partner of the Hue festival, which will next be held in 2014, said Segolene Royal, president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council in France.

VietNamNet Bridge – Students in Hanoi and HCM City have been gearing up in the sprint stage to intensively prepare for the entrance exams for high schools for the gifted.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomes oil-related partnerships with foreigners in its exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi said in a press conference on Apr. 12.

Internet experts believe that the Vietnamese market is attractive enough and regulations are reasonable enough to retain the foreign big guys like Facebook or Google.