VietNamNet Bridge – The increasing number of enterprises filing for bankruptcy in HCM City in the first quarter of the year has resulted in a surge in unemployment insurance claims.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) called for an immediate observer mission to Syria, the group said in a statement on Thursday.

Lawmakers agreed that the revised law on publications should target issues relating to publishing, printing, distribution management and curbing illegal printing at a National Assembly Standing Committee meeting yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the evening of April 9-10 at the ongoing Hue Festival, musical instruments made from waste by Max Vandervorst from Blegium attracted thousands of Hue residents and visitors.

VietNamNet Bridge – Phan Huy Nghia, 30, in Nghi Loc district of the central province of Nghe An, was arrested for cutting off the penis and part of testis of his neighbor.

VietNamNet Bridge – The eighth annual HCM City Tourism Day Festival, which opened yesterday, April 12, aims to promote more domestic tours.

The U.S. military said Thursday the rocket launched by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fell into sea after the launch failed.

VietNamNet Bridge – Outbound tours with the departure time in late April or early May have been nearly fully booked. Going abroad is the choice of many Vietnamese people who want to save money in the context of high inflation.

VietNamNet Bridge – France will remain the main partner of the Hue festival, which will next be held in 2014, said Segolene Royal, president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council in France.

VietNamNet Bridge – Students in Hanoi and HCM City have been gearing up in the sprint stage to intensively prepare for the entrance exams for high schools for the gifted.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomes oil-related partnerships with foreigners in its exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi said in a press conference on Apr. 12.

Internet experts believe that the Vietnamese market is attractive enough and regulations are reasonable enough to retain the foreign big guys like Facebook or Google.

Though local residents enthusiastically join the afforestation movement, it’s still early to say that Bac Kan’s forests would be safe.

VietNamNet Bridge - Inspectors from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development seized 7.5 tons of banned lean-meat additives in My Hao District, Hung Yen Province on April 11.

“To be or not to be” is the question that many young entrepreneurs have raised for themselves, after a long period of struggling to survive the difficulties.

Deputy PM seeks stronger partnership with Australia; Friend of Vietnam, Raymond Aubrac remembered; Vietnam, Uruguay strengthen cooperation; Vietnam-Cuba relations – a great source of encouragement for Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – On April 12, the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee held a conference to implement the Secretariat (11th tenure)’s Instruction 09 issued in December 2011 on enhancing the leadership of the Party

VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Quy Phuoc and his coach have asked the General Department of Sports and Physical Training’s permission to stop training in the US. They wanted to return to Vietnam, and then go to China for drilling.

There has been no survey which measures the influences of the South Korean stars on the movement of using South Korean goods in Vietnam. However, it’s clear that Korean stars have helped Korean goods easily penetrate the Vietnamese market.

Young women and men prepare their most beautiful costumes for the coming festival at Khau Vai Love Market, where parted lovers forced apart meet once a year has become the venue for a festival featuring many cultural activities.