A lot of foreign airlines have opened new air routes to and from Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – A water snake has been considered as a ‘preternatural snake’ by residents of Tung Loc commune in the central city of Ha Tinh.

VietNamNet Bridge – Being busy with a training course, coach Mai Duc Chung will not lead the Vietnamese U22 football team at the Asian qualifiers in Myanmar this June.

The 11-year old girl from Ho Chi Minh City who paranormal investigators think has a strange ability to burn things around her continued to cause another mysterious fire – after a major incident last week that caught media attention.

Largest plywood mill begins operations; Brokerages set for tighter debt ratios; Vietnam commits to public private partnership; VND3 trillion to help troubled firms in HCM City; Leading gas firm set to debut on bourse next week

The death toll of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that hit northern Italy in the early hours of Sunday morning has risen to seven, local media said.

Nguyen Quang Dung from the National Institute of Agricultural Planning and Projection spoke about the development of traditional craft villages

VietNamNet Bridge – The bodies of Buddhist monks in Dau temple have existed for over three centuries, witnessing a lot of ups and downs. They are invaluable treasures and spiritual and cultural stamps of Vietnamese people.

Credit institutions that do not thoroughly restructure will miss a precious opportunity to improve their competitiveness.

The UN-Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan will visit Syria by the end of May to discuss the implementation of his six-point peace plan, Syrian foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said on his Facebook page on Sunday.

Lemon tea shops on Hanoi’s streets like Nho Tho, Ly Quoc Su, Dao Duy Tu, etc. are over crowded on summer evenings. Pavements, roads and small parks become lemon tea shops, where thousands of the youngsters group up to chat.

While local authorities have been trying to call for Japanese investment into supporting industries, many Japanese investors in Vietnam are operating in the fields of trade, real estate, information technology, service and consumer goods production.

The trend of companies in HCM City making losses continues, with three-quarters losing in the first quarter, and government policies to support them are not proving very effective.

The National Assembly's Finance and Budget Committee concurred with the Government's latest tax cut proposal but said no to a tax exemption plan.

Instead of pushing up lending, commercial banks have spent money to buy government bonds, accepting the low government bond interest rates.

Nearly 200 antiques selected from collections by members of the HCM City Antique Association are exhibited at the HCM City Museum, 65 Ly Tu Trong Street, District 1, HCM City. The exhibition will last until December 27, 2012.

VietNamNet Bridge – The scorching heat of mid-May in Hanoi cannot stop the vitality of lotus in the West Lake and Dinh Gian Lake.

Among proposals to make tedious and boring history more enjoyable and appealing to the young, is the idea to turn it into pictorial books, which so far has been successful in that it has brought history closer to the public.

Le Quang Trung, deputy director of the Employment Department, under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, talks about unemployment insurance policy.

After more than 40 years in theatre, People's Artist Kim Cuong has performed in several hundreds of plays and recorded albums praising Vietnamese culture and lifestyle in both traditional and modern styles.