U.S. Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was projected Tuesday night to win his party's Illinois primary by major U.S. broadcasters, as he hunts for enough delegates to become the party's nomination.

Amid the information that foreign investors ask Vietnam to allow Vietnamese people to go to casinos, or they would not pour capital into Vietnam, the MPI has affirmed that this will not be the subject to haggle about.

VietNamNet Bridge – About 150 sarus cranes, a rare species listed in both the world and Viet Nam's Red Book, have migrated to southern Kien Giang Province's Phu My Lepironia Grassland Conservation each day since early this month.

VietNamNet Bridge – Trinh Hoang Nam has won the Cambridge English Speaking Competition in Vietnam and took a berth to the contest in Asia, scheduled for July in London.

VietNamNet Bridge – A team of traditional opera artists from the Viet Nam Cheo Theatre recently delighted a French audience with a classical cheo play during the Festival of Imagination held in Paris's House of World Cultures.

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VietNamNet Bridge – From four big cracks, water gushes from the reservoir through the major dam of the Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in the central province of Quang Nam. There are dozens of smaller cracks on the dam.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is seeking funding of about VND100 billion for a project to restore and renovate the Ngo Mon, one of the main structures of the former Royal Capital City of Hue.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam ranked second at the World Muay Thai and Young Muay Thai Championships 2012 in Thailand, which draw 58 national teams.

VietNamNet Bridge – An 8 year-old girl and a rocker have been selected for the final round of Vietnam Got Talent 2012.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday that the United States has "no intention" to seek additional resources for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The Party Committee of Hai Phong has appointed Mr. Nguyen Van Tung, deputy director of the municipal Department of Science and Technology, as the new chairman of Tien Lang district.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 100 children drowned in Viet Nam during the first two months of this year, a 6 per cent increase compared with the same period last year,

VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Pham Quang Nghi, Hanoi’s Party Secretary, said that Hanoi’s officials at all levels would undergo vote of confidence and he was ready for the vote.

U.S. House Republicans unveiled their budget plan Tuesday, underscoring tax reforms and overhaul in Medicare system, in a bid to draw a clear election-year distinction with the budget released by the President Barack Obama last month.

A new mechanism for State appropriations will be required to help clamp down on corrupt practices and give more decision-making power to provincial authorities, said Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese gymnasts have been drawn in tough groups for the upcoming London Olympics.

Secretary Nguyen Ba Thanh of the Party Committee of the central city of Danang, stated that the city’s traffic policemen earn over VND10 million per month, so any police officer who is detected to take minor briber will be fired immediately.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Chief of the General Department of Sports and Physical Training, Mr. Lam Quang Thanh, said that he was astonished to hear that five Vietnamese swimmers were cast out from the Bolles school in Florida, USA.

At least 14 schoolchildren were killed and 18 others were injured when a school bus fell into a canal on Tuesday in Khammam district of southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said police.

Debt-laden Greece raised on Tuesday 1.3 billion euros (1.72 billion U.S. dollars) in a new treasury bills auction, according to an announcement of the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA).

VietNamNet Bridge – A rare reticulated python of nearly 100kg in weight was reported dead at a bird sanctuary in the southern province of Bac Lieu. The python will be stuffed for display at the sanctuary.

It is estimated that when the new tax and fee regulations take effect, the total sum of money every Vietnamese person has to pay to possess a car would be 2.5 times higher than in the US.

Vietnamese folk tale featured in Paris; Sao Mai organisers impose strict rules this year; Province unveils plans to restore Cham tower; Beauty of northwestern ladies in city; ‘I’m Doctor Know-All’ on Youth Theater stage

Hachikai Mimi, one of the most promising young poets/writers in Japan, will arrive in Vietnam to host lectures on Japanese contemporary literature and poetry in Hanoi, Hue and HCMC from Tuesday until Saturday.