The Vietnam Professional Football last weekend shocked the football industry by announcing that it has acquired the TV rights from digital AVG, who received the rights in a controversial deal that ignited a four-month long TV rights battle.

VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition of more than 100 photographs of the Anti-American war, taken by photojournalists who worked for the Liberation News Agency (LNA) between 1965 and 1975, is open at the Reunification Palace in HCM City

VietNamNet Bridge – Wild elephants could disappear from Viet Nam's Central Highlands permanently as deforestation has destroyed their habitat and source of food needed for survival.

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has proposed to allow state owned enterprises (SOEs) to sell the land plots and houses they do not use to get money for production and investment.

Can Tho hosted an online dialogue on the Government website yesterday to review the implementation of the Politburo's Resolution 21 on socio-economic development and security defence of the Mekong Delta River

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Van Dong of Can Tho won the eighth stage of the HCM City Television Cycling Cup yesterday, April 22, while Nguyen Mai Hung from Sai Gon Plant Protection retained the yellow jersey.

Dak Lak and Dak Nong provinces have leased forest land to enterprises to grow rubber trees. However, while the rubber projects still cannot bring profits, the green forests have been seriously devastated.

Vietnamese information technology (IT) firms which have just returned from CeBIT 2012, an IT trade fair, keep optimistic about their opportunities in the future.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam was developing green architecture to curb environmental pollution and offer sustainable living conditions, said Nguyen Tan Van, chairman of the Viet Nam Association of Architects (VAA),

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government will inject VND1.7 trillion (US$80 million) into the national new rural-area programme in 2012, according to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat.

The spokesman of the advance team of UN observers said the group visited two central regions and established contacts with all parties there on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge – A speeding coach in the rain--ran straight into a roadside coffee shop in Phu Giao district of the southern province of Binh Duong, and overturned--killing one and injuring 13 people.

Every parent wants to send their children to prestigious schools believed to provide high quality education. However, as the number of schools is limited, parents have to scramble for the seats at the schools by paying big moneys.

VietNamNet Bridge – President Tony Tan Keng Yam arrived in Hanoi on April 23, beginning a four-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang.

VietNamNet Bridge – Amendments will be made to Viet Nam's tax agent regulations to boost effectiveness, according to Deputy Director General of the General Department of Taxation (GDT) Vu Van Truong.

 Viet Nam, Algeria discuss trade, labour co-operation; Paraguay wishes to cement ties with Vietnam; President Sang takes tour of Ninh Thuan; Thai media highlights Vietnam resistance war

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ending its spring meetings with pledges of more than 430 billion U.S. dollars from individual countries in efforts to counter any fallout from the eurozone debt crisis.

Young fencer Nguyen Tien Nhat has earned a berth at the coming London Olympics after cruising into the finals of the Games’ Asian qualifying round in Japan on April 21.

VietNamNet Bridge – Aphrodisiacs in general and products for women are banned in in Vietnam but users can buy them quite easy, says an official from HCM City.

Provincial authorities now tend to make decisions of their own under the decentralization mechanism. However, in many cases, their decisions come contrary to the nation’s laws.