The sudden surge in domestic rice prices in this year’s winter-spring crop has made a number of rice exporters suffer from losses in the first quarter.

 Vietnam has been attracting a lot of attention from investors in the Republic of Korea (RoK) thanks to her active global economic integration and engagement in free trade agreements.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Duong Trung Quoc, National Assembly Deputy and a historian, tells VOV Online that preserving the Red River ecosystem should be a vital part of plans to exploit it.

Visitors to HCM City will have a chance to pose for photos at the Wax Museum of Vietnamese Artists, known informally as Madame Tussauds Viet Nam, which is scheduled to open early next month.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs held a press conference on March 28 to update the media on the unexploded ordnance contamination and the settlement of post-war UXO consequences in Vietnam.

To make Ho Chi Minh City more attractive to local and foreign travellers, the city’s authorities have decided to build Sai Gon Cultural and Tourism Village.

Vietnam is gifted with rich and diversified natural landscape. But it’s only when the movie I See Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass hit the screen that movie fans were amazed how beautiful the Phu Yen peaceful countryside is.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dancer Ha Tu Thien graduated from Viet Nam Dance College and is a second-year student at Ha Noi Academy of Theatre & Cinema’s Choreograph Department. 

 Vietnam attaches importance to the traditional relationship with Mozambique and wishes to promote multi-faceted cooperation between the nations, particularly in national defence, said a senior officer.

 President of the Council of States of Switzerland Ivo Bischofberger arrived in Hanoi on March 28 to begin his official visit till March 31 at the invitation of Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

HCM City has been providing all possible support for the Fulbright University Vietnam project in the city, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said.

Each resident of Dong Coc Village in the northern province of Bac Ninh received VND10 million (US$440) after the 200-year-old sua tree at the communal village house was sold for VND24.5 billion

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rice is not only the staple of Vietnamese diets, but also the major ingredient in many signature dishes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam ranked first at the 12th SEA Youth Athletics Championships which closed yesterday in the Philippines.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam women’s football team dropped one place to finish No 33 in the world ranking for the first quarter of 2017.

On the invitation of the Viet Nam Hockey Federation, the Australian field hockey men and women teams will be in HCM City from March 31 to April 7 to promote field hockey in the country.

The film Kong: Skull Island, shot in Quang Binh, Ninh Binh, and Quang Ninh provinces last year, has been drawing a lot of attention from Vietnamese authorities, media outlets, and the public. 

Professor Tran Dinh Long, Chairman of Viet Nam Plant Varieties Association tells the Khoa hooc & Doi song newspaper that hi-tech agriculture should match Vietnamese conditions to ensure sustainable growth.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese players Nguyen Tien Minh and Le Duc Phat will compete at the Orleans International badminton tournament in France on March 30-April 2.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese online education market has high potential with an estimated value of billions of dollars, but many barriers exist.