Antiques on display at Hue Festival; Ivory Coast rock band to perform in Hanoi; Concert hosts world premiere of symphonic poem; Ben Tre Coconut Festival opens; Life Art explores gender in ‘Stranger’

Customs officers nab drug smuggler; 37 killed and injured in car accident; Hanoi youths hold up catchy road safety slogans; Three die, six injured in lorry crash

US$4 bln petrochemical complex to be built soon in Ba Ria-Vung Tau; HCM City: nearly 6,000 businesses dissolved in Q1; Garments become nation's top export; Seafood business debts leaving farmers in the lurch

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City health authorities have urged kindergartens to intensify efforts to prevent the spread of hand-foot-mouth disease at school.

A lot of commercial banks are considering increasing their chartered capital to protect themselves when necessary, from the attempts of the “big fish” taking them over.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will take part in the Asian Nations Chess Cup, organised for the first time in Zao Zhuang, Shandong Province, China.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese embassy in Malaysia is working with local relevant agencies to quickly settle the incident related to 69 Vietnamese working for Malaysian company Asmana and ensure their interests to the maximum.

Hanoi will concentrate on developing the nursery, elementary and secondary school system, said deputies at a meeting of the city People's Council that started on April 3.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has set its hopes on two tickets to this summer's London Olympics at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Pyeongtaek, South Korea from April 22-30.

Qualifying rounds for the Robocon Contest 2012 are being held in Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City, with the participation of 227 teams from universities and colleges across the country. 

VietNamNet Bridge – All ASEAN leaders supported the priorities outlined by Cambodia as current chair, and agreed to work together to accelerate the building of an ASEAN Community by 2015,

VietNamNet Bridge – Composer Tran Manh Hung's latest piece will be premiered at a concert by the Viet Nam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) today.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities have told local agencies to take measures to protect tourists.

VietNamNet Bridge – Transport Minister Dinh La Thang has asked Hanoi and HCM City to research and add monorail networks to their public transport systems in order to curb congestion.

VietNamNet Bridge – V-League football club Sai Gon FC decided on Tuesday to dismiss its coach Lu Dinh Tuan after the club suffered its third successive defeat over the last three weeks.

Vietnamese officers awarded Australia Police’s top medal; President appoints new prosecuting staff; Deputy PM receives French business delegation; Vietnamese, Russian legislative bodies boost ties

VietNamNet Briege – More and more cruise travelers have arrived in Vietnam so far this year. Vietnam expects a bumper cruise tourism season in 2012 after a quiet year of 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – A national conference was held in Hanoi on April 3 and 4 to review external news service and the dissemination of information on the country’s seas, islands and border demarcation last year.

VietNamNet Bridge – At present, on Min Mountain, there are only four flocks of golden monkeys left, with 8-10 monkeys for each. Meanwhile, in the past, the mountains were the residing place for hundreds of flocks of monkeys.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Are you nuts?”, “Have you just returned from Trau Quy?” (Trau Quy is the name of a mental hospital), “I’ve never met such a stupid person like you”--are all words spoken out by teachers at their lessons.

VietNamNet Bridge – The price of The new iPad has been decreasing dramatically, by 4 million dong just two weeks after they hit the Vietnamese market.

The US hedge fund Elliott Advisers LP has decided to drop a lawsuit against the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin). Meanwhile, a Malaysian creditor has stated that the value of the loan provided by the bank to Vinashin is very small.

At least five people including a top sports official were killed and 10 others injured in a suicide bomb attack on a reopened theater in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses reported.

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that despite a recovering economy, the U.S. should be wary of cutting budget too much, in particular in areas such as education and social security.

U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Tuesday swept primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and District of Columbia, further solidifying his frontrunner status, putting more pressure on main rival Rick Santorum to quit.