Traffic safety rules tightened at Noi Bai; Pillar collapse kills student in Binh Dinh school; Rotten meat seized in southern province; Bodies of snail farmers found at sea; Nghe An police bust trans-border drug ring

 Frost expected again in the north; New urban authority model designed for HCM City; Government earmarks US$15.5 million to develop rice cultivation land; Korean agency to help Viet Nam combat crime; Two killed in coach-truck collision

 Coca-Cola colouring causes no harm: VFA; Express boat salvaged in Binh Thuan; Thanh Hoa woman arrested for explosive trafficking; Hanoi to have 1,500 trade villages by 2015

 HCM City pays $57m in unemployment benefits; Festive blooms stop the traffic; Viet Nam sees increase in ‘vulnerable' workers; Gov’t orders tightened measures to prevent bird flu; Major dredging work underway

 VietNamNet Bridge - After a week of illness, a 52-year-old man in Binh Minh commune, Bu Dang district of Binh Phuoc province, died. This is the first death by influenza A (H5N1) in 2014, after 9 months of no human case reported.

 Cold spell continues in northern areas; Man killed in road accident; Two miners die at stone mine rockslide; Former taxi drivers put in jail for fraud; Health Ministry cracks down on food safety; Ha Noi launches new online bus map

 Fire destroys 1,400sq m factory; HCM City aims for major growth by 2020; Swallows free of bird flu in Ninh Thuan; Asia-Pacific law schools meet in HCM City; State offers insurance help for those near poverty line

China has one of the oldest food cultures in the world and, like that acme of Western food culture French cuisine, the food needs to be fresh.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new type of food and mouth disease (FMD) virus has emerged in the provinces of Ha Tinh and Thanh Hoa, in central Vietnam, but there is no suitable vaccine for it.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of salaganes died last week in Phan Rang City, Ninh Thuan province. The information made hundreds of salagane-breeding households in HCM City anxious.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Animal Health Agency of Region VI has proposed to kill the whole flock of salanganes of Thanh Binh salangane house in Phan Rang city after samples of dead birds tested positive for the type A H5N1 influenza virus.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some regions in Viet Nam are preparing to cope with the new H7N9 strain of bird flu although no cases of infection have yet been reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – A four-year-old boy died from avian flu strain H5N1 in southern Dong Thap Province, authorities confirmed on April 9, saying that measures were being taken to prevent the virus from spreading further.

 VietNamNet Bridge – China's chicken, both live and slaughtered, are still being smuggled into Viet Nam, despite concerted border controls, raising fears of the spread of deadly bird flu strain H7N9 for which there is no vaccine.

 Management on bird flu to be strengthened; Forum on workers’ right to information; HSBC supports disadvantaged children; Illegal timber chopping boards intercepted

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam faces a high risk of bird flu outbreaks due to unfavourable weather conditions, which reduce animals’ natural resistance, as well as the development of new poultry flocks after Tet,

As bird flu claims lives in China, Cambodia, Vietnamese health authorities asked its sub-divisions to urgently implement counter-measures against transmission of the virus to human.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has issued an urgent warning of bird flu after the deadly disease was recently detected in Tay Ninh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The smuggling of large quantities of rejected chickens is the main reason for the high incidence of bird flu in Viet Nam, says Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam.