VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked relevant ministries, agencies and localities to speed up preparations for activities to celebrate the two countries’ Friendship Year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors have warned of an early presence of meningitis and encephalitis in children this summer as the number of children hospitalised appears to be rising,

Viet Nam can maintain economic growth of 5.8 per cent and reduce inflation to 9.8 per cent this year, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP).

A lot of hotels in HCM City, including the bustling ones in the central area of the city, complain that they have few customers these days.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Cinema Agency has banned “Bay Cap 3”, a product by Vietnamese American director Le Van Kiet, from local screens.

VietNamNet Bridge – An 83-year-old woman climbed up an over-20m areca tree to pluck betel-nuts for chewing, but she fell down and died.

Paper and wood processing enterprises have voiced their concern about the wood chip exports in large quantity recently, warning that the massive exports would lead to the material shortage to domestic industries.

The Social Insurance Agency of Binh Duong Province has discovered nearly 100,000 labourers resigned to get unemployment insurance benefits.   

Transparency in collecting the road maintenance fee must be ensured before authorities start the collection scheduled for January 1 next year, National Assembly deputies and transporters said at a seminar in HCMC on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has ordered inspections on formaldehyde content in fresh fruit and vegetables.

VietNamNet Bridge – A collection of abstract paintings by artist Vinh Phoi called Khong Gian va Tiet Dieu II (Space and Rhythm II) is on display at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

HCM City's first Gold-rated building for energy efficiency is almost ready and will be ready for occupation by August.

Relevant authorities and businesses gathered in the capital on Wednesday to prepare a pilot value-added tax (VAT) refund scheme for foreigners and overseas Vietnamese passing through the country's two biggest airports in July.

Debt-stricken Binh An Seafood Co, or Bianfishco, yesterday officially restarted operations at its catfish processing and exporting plant in Can Tho-based Tra Noc Industrial Park.

VietNamNet Bridge – Martial artist Le Huynh Chau won a bronze medal in the men's 58kg event on Tuesday at the ongoing Asian Taekwondo Championships in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Tuan Quyet's family has run a special profession for three generations: making sculptures from black coal, one of the most exploited minerals in northern Quang Ninh Province.

The US acclaimed contemporary ballet company, the Trey McIntyre Project, will begin a performance tour of Vietnam in mid May, the US Embassy in Hanoi announced on May 10.

Vietnam’s top chess GM Le Quang Liem was defeated by his United Arab Emirates rival Salem Saleh at the fifth round of the Asian Chess Championships on May 9.    

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to further tighten control of online games as games with violent features have returned to internet sites popular with youth.