Farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta may be reaping a bumper summer-autumn rice crop with an average yield of 6.5-7.5 tonnes per ha, but they are unhappy after paddy prices plunged last week.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan visited the Thai province of Khon Kaen on June 24 before concluding her visit to the country, at the invitation of Prime Minister Yingluck Sinawatra.

After receiving a complaint from the Centre for Educational Technology and Career Development that the inspection should not be focus on their finances but education management, the Government Inspectorate sent their respond on June 21.

A lacquer exhibit has opened at the HCMC Association of Fine Arts, honoring the traditional art genre of Vietnam.

Dang Xuan Khang, head of Interpol in Vietnam, on Friday said that Interpol has issued an international red-alert for Duong Chi Dung, former director of Vietnam Maritime Administration.

VietNamNet Bridge – The high profits from raising swifts for their nests means many people in HCM City's inner districts do it, affecting neighbours and the environment.

Workshop to focus on post service; Capital city hosts info tech summit; Ericsson VN to provide internships; SAP Viet Nam appoints new MD; Ha Noi hosts information technology summit

VietNamNet Bridge – Visitors to the Sai Gon Zoo and Botanical Gardens will see with admiration a newly restored artistic work near the Hung Kings Temple – a bronze elephant statue gifted by King Prajadhipok in 1934 as a mark of friendship.

Summer slowly rolls into Central Vietnam, with one heat wave and thunderstorm after another bringing about a change in the land before harvest time.

Hanoians believe that supermarkets are not the “markets” that they have got familiar for the last hundreds of years. If so, Hanoi would no longer have markets from 2030.

The Belgian Universite libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Hanoi University have signed a cooperation agreement on joint training in tourism administration.

“AKI & KUNIKO”, a guitar and koto duo from Japan, will be in Hanoi and HCM City from July 8-10.

The first ever private museum in the central province of Thua Thien Hue has been set up in downtown Hue City.

Flash flooding kills 1, injures 6 in Ha Giang; Belgium, Vietnam cooperate in tourism training; Teenagers in walk to promote traffic safety; HCM City calls for foreign investment in transport projects

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Power Company’s workers on June 24 rescued a monkey that was stuck on a high voltage poll on Cong Hoa Road, Tan Binh district.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Super-model 2012 finished in Hanoi on the evening of June 24, with Nguyen Phuong Mai and Nguyen Huu Long as the winners.

VietNamNet Bridge - The oceanographic research ship Roger Revelle with 28 officials and sailors on board docked at Tien Sa Port in Da nang on June 22. This is the first visit to Da nang by the ship.

VietNamNet Bridge – Only two universities in Asia have scored five points or more with regard to tertiary training in chemistry, and one of them is Vietnam’s College of Natural Sciences, according to the ASEAN University Network.

Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW AG will further cooperate in the area of eco-friendly cars, with the Japanese automaker providing its hybrid and fuel cell technologies to the German partner while receiving technologies to reduce vehicle body weight,

VietNamNet Bridge – A water-supply system expected to provide clean water for all residents of HCM City by 2025 has been approved by the Prime Minister.