The list of music stars performing at the 2nd ASEAN-Japan Music Festival 2018 has been announced online with Vietnamese singer, Dong Nhi, among the names who will light up the October event.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the UK Embassy in Vietnam held a bilateral meeting and announced the one-year review of implementing the Hanoi Statement on Illegal Wildlife Trade in Hanoi on May 31.

 Women who are overweight or obese but otherwise healthy are still at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, a large study suggests.

 Latest report from CBRE notes ongoing demand for co-working spaces in Hanoi and HCMC.

For travellers looking forward to their summer holidays, what to pack can be a source of stress. But did you know that taking an e-cigarette with you to countries such Thailand could land you with a fine - or even time in jail?

VietNamNet Bridge - Chinese brands some years ago attended a series of automobile exhibitions and ran large advertisement campaigns. But a short time later, they left Vietnam.

 Memory transfer has been at the heart of science fiction for decades, but it's becoming more like science fact.

 Three Vietnamese students will compete in the 2018 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship in the US.

As more foreign-owned businesses go public in Vietnam, VIR takes a look at how overseas firms have fared on the domestic stock market over the past decade.

 A woman in the southern province of Binh Thuan has admitted burying her new-born child alive.

 The Vietnam Association for Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) have advised farmers to reduce their outputs to counter falling prices.  

Despite such hot weather, a flower garden in My Tho city in the southern province of Tien Giang has been attracting a large number of visitors to take photos among the gorgeous blossoms.

 Vietnam-Japan relations are at their best point since the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties 45 years ago, President Tran Dai Quang told Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) Kazuo Shii.

 The fintech (financial technology) sector is facing difficulties of capital mobilisation shortage, inadequate legal framework and banks’ hesitance in co-operation, said Le Minh Hung, Governor of State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV).

 The BBC is to stream dozens of World Cup matches live in 4K resolution and high dynamic range colour (HDR) to UK-based audiences in June and July.

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) disbursements rose 10 per cent year-on-year to US$6.75 billion in the first five months of 2018, Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) statistics reveal.

 Viet Nam’s total revenue from retail sales and services in the first five months of this year maintained a high growth since the beginning of the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, Tran Vinh Tuyen, has ordered district authorities to clear all encroachment of canals and drains by the end of this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A solo exhibition entitled Canh 6 or Calculus Exercise #6/5 by contemporary artist Nguyen Huy An will open at Manzi Art Space from 6pm on Saturday. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sarda Pered Javier won the overall yellow jersey of the Binh Duong Television Cycling Tournament which concluded in the southern province of Binh Duong yesterday.