Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a birth rate adjustment programme towards 2030 which encourages people to get married before the age of 30 and women to give birth to the second child before they get 35 years old.

 Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish have formally converted their civil partnership to a marriage - with the musician documenting the day on the Instagram website.

 The marriage of actor George Clooney and lawyer Amal Alamuddin has been sealed with a civil ceremony in Venice.

 On average 18,000 Vietnamese marry foreigners each year, with 78% of them coming from Ho Chi Minh City and poor areas of the Mekong Delta region.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A study entitled “Economy and happiness: Evidence from Vietnam’s rural areas” has found that marriage makes people happier.

Environmental experts have repeatedly warned of Vietnam’s vulnerability to repercussions from pollution and environmental degradation.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A Chinese man demanded a refund after discovering that he was the second husband of his wife, a woman in the southern province of Soc Trang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This strange story occurred in Kien Thuy district of the northern port city of Hai Phong.

According to the Vietnamese Embassy in South Korea, a Vietnamese woman named Nguyen Thi Diem Trinh was determined to have committed suicide in the city of Gumi, South Korea, on January 16.

VietNamNet Bridge – When the night falls, hundreds of boys and girls from different places flock to this “market” to find their lovers.