VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists have for the first time rung the alarm over the high dioxin concentration in emissions and waste water in waste treatment plant areas.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The fields in Mai Chau Valley, Hoa Binh Province are in the new rice season. Everywhere farmers are transplanting rice seedlings.

VietNamNet Bridge - From 2015, Vietnamese businesses must declare and certify the origin of their export products themselves instead of obtaining C/O (certificate of origin) from management agencies.

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VietNamNet Bridge - In theory, the positions controlled illegally by China in Truong Sa in particular and the entire East Sea in general will help strengthen its ability to control the sea lanes and rapidly deploy armed forces.

VietNamNet Bridge – China’s investment in Vietnam has dramatically increased both in terms of value and project number, but the quality of these projects needs to be taken into account, and to ensure they contribute

 VietNamNet Bridge – A photo book titled Ky Uc Chien Tranh (Memories of War) by former Vietnam News Agency journalist Chu Chi Thanh will be reprinted in Vietnamese and English this month in its original size, with some small revisions.

 Two female drug traffickers get death sentences, VTC to merge with VOV, Snake bite victim saved at Bach Mai hospital, Unsanitary pig skin processing businesses raided, Fire destroys 2,000-sq.m cotton workshop

 A special event revisiting and examining the role of "the Headquarters" of the 1975 Spring General Offensive and Uprisings took place yesterday in Ha Noi to mark the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of South Viet Nam and National Unification Day.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Thirty-eight Tan Chau bantams competed in a beauty contest in Hanoi on Sunday, April 12.

 Vietnam’s best-known artists and celebrities are campaigning to collect one million signatures in support of a ban on the trade in, slaughtering and consumption of dogs.

 Local authorities have had significant achievements in fire fighting and prevention as they extinguished 82 fires, or 50 percent of fires, in Ho Chi Minh City the first three months of this year.

 Renowned musicians from Vietnam and Norway will gather for a special cultural exchange celebrating the two countries’ friendship on April 17-18 in Hanoi.

 The Central province of Quang Nam supports and facilitates two low-cost carriers Jetstar Pacific Airlines and Vietjet air to open return flights between Chu Lai and Ho Chi Minh City.

 A programme to combat corruption and promote thrift in the 2011-15 period helped Hanoi save nearly 3.7 trillion VND (171 million VND), heard a conference reviewing the programme in the capital on April 14.

 Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) on April 10 extended a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on supplying and receiving Vietnamese workers to the RoK under the Employment Permit System (EPS).

 Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh hosted a reception on April 14 in Hanoi for the newly-appointed Russian Defence A ttaché to Vietnam, Colonel Andrey Petrovich Likhachev.

 The official visit to Vietnam by Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg from April 16-18 is expected to boost bilateral relations which have grown over the last four decades.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi-based Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) hopes to choose a foreign strategic investor later this year or next year, said BIDV Chair Tran Bac Ha on April 14.