VietNamNet Bridge – The capital city has recorded a 9.2% increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, the municipal People's Committee reported today.

VietNamNet Bridge – Football Dreams, a recruiting project that develops young football talents will restart this month.

A train from HCM City to Hanoi ran into a 16-seat passenger car at 3 pm, March 30, in Hanoi’s Thuong Tin district, killing seven on the spot. Two other died on the way to hospital.

Amazon.com Inc. on Tuesday announced the launch of an on-line music storage service, which enables users to store digital music in the cloud and access it from computers and devices running Google's Android operating system.

VietNamNet Bridge – Enterprises, from manufacturers to traders, commercial banks to securities companies all think that they need to use digital signature services. However, they are still worried about the security of the services.

Hiep Phuoc Power Company is set to hold direct negotiations on Wednesday with over 90 enterprises in Hiep Phuoc Industrial Park in Nha Be District in bid to reach a compromise for power pricing.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has decided that from the 2011-2012 academic year, some school subjects will be taught in English. However, both teachers and students complain that it is really a difficult task.

VietNamNet Bridge – The online Vietnamese young people’s magazine  www.thanhnienviet.vn was launched in Hanoi on March 30 as a portal of information for communist youth members and young people across the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked ministries, branches and localities to take synchronous measures to curb inflation, stabilize the macroeconomy and ensure jobs for labourers.

Although the Investment Law has been implemented for five years, management agencies have yet to promulgate guidelines on investment procedures. Unnecessary obstacles have therefore emerged.

VietNamNet Bridge – Universities nationwide should amend their social sciences and humanities curricula to make them more job-orientated, experts said at a workshop yesterday, March 30.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese coaches Mai Duc Chung and Phan Thanh Hung have changed their mind and agreed to lead the men's national team and the under-23 team.

Myanmar's elected president U Thein Sein and two vice presidents, U Tin Aung Myint Oo and Dr. Sai Mauk Kham, were sworn in on Wednesday in the new capital Nay Pyi Taw in the presence of members of parliament.

Vietnam is striving to build up a transparent investment environment in order to create a leveling playing field for all enterprises. However, it seems that the more Vietnam strives to renovate, the worse the investment environment becomes.

US directors to make film about Vietnam; Local film projects win foreign financial backing; Music website does its bit for Japan victims; New wedding dress breaks record

VietNamNet Bridge – Football Dream - the program to select amateur football talents at the age of 13-15 for a three-year training course in Qatar’s Aspire Institute will be held in April.

VietNamNet Bridge – Dang Quang Dieu, director of the Institute for Workers and Trade Unions of the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) spoke to Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam about promoting labour rights.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications has ordered all internet service providers (ISP) to stop providing online games from 10pm to 8am every day from March 30.

Central province conducts free heart operations for children; Six missing after boat sinking off central region; Truck hits 2 motorbikes in Danang, 2 hurt; Ho Chi Minh City language school vanishes  

VietNamNet Bridge – The school system should be revamped to avoid overlap in curricula at various levels and meet children's changing needs, educationists told a workshop in HCM City on Tuesday.

The SuperStar Aquarius ship of the Star Cruises Hong Kong Limited will come back to Quang Ninh Province’s Halong City on April 3, nearly three years after the cruise line suspended Halong’s calls.

VietNamNet Bridge – Young documentary film-makers in Viet Nam have been invited by the German cultural institute Goethe Institute Viet Nam to submit short films on climate change for a competition named Vietdocs.

Work is good for health while long term work absence, work disability and unemployment can make us miserable, according to a consensus statement from the Australian and New Zealand doctors on Wednesday.

HCM City boost cooperation with German State; Dutch ambassador honoured for contributions; Deputy Chief of the General Staff receives Cambodian delegation; Laos congratulated for successful Party congress

VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the central province of Phu Yen have been searching for six fishermen who were considered as missing since their boat was capsized by a giant wave at dawn on Wednesday, March 30.