Eating food contaminated with bugs leads to more than half a billion cases of illness a year, the World Health Organization warns.  

 Vietnam is forecast to rank third out of 32 nations hosting new wealth builders (NWBs) for the 2014-20 period, according to a survey by The Economist magazine.

 The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) on April 2 handed over equipment used in the fight against hi-tech crimes, worth 35,000 GBP, to the Vietnam Police, which is intended to enhance further the latter’s anti-crime capacity.

 Super Typhoon Maysak is on track to enter the East Sea on April 5, according to the Central Meteorology Hydrology Forecast Centre.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Under the blazing sun, the streets Ton Duc Thang, Nguyen Binh Khiem and Tran Quang Khai are fresh and cool thanks to old trees.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The presence of many visitors and modern equipment in these pristine places will change the landscape and the people in the years to come.

 At least 147 people, mostly students, have been killed in an assault by al-Shabab militants on a university in north-eastern Kenya.

 President Obama has hailed a deal restricting Iran's nuclear programme as a "historic understanding" which, if implemented, will make the world safer.

 Da Nang to monitor trees with GIS, Car driver arrested for crash killing teen, Epidemic outbreaks found in HCM City, Downtown street blockage causes traffic chaos, Lam Dong: Drought damages 60,000 hectares of coffee

Viet Nam's Ly Hoang Nam booked a spot in the quarter-finals at the Indonesia F1 Futures tennis tournament yesterday, battling to a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over Canada's Kelsey Stevenson in Tarakan City.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed with the transport ministry that the plan to confiscate vehicles of drunken drivers should not be implemented.

The Ministry of Finance wants to increase the single-entry visa fee for overseas Vietnamese and foreigners from US$20 to $45.

The Ha Noi Police stopped three motorbikes loaded with unwieldy goods on Tran Nhat Duat Street in the vicinity of Chuong Duong Bridge early this morning following a traffic jam.

 Representatives from over 25 member universities of the ASEAN University Network (AUN) gathered at the two-day annual Steering Committee Meeting of the ASEAN Credit Transfer System (ACTS) in Ha Noi, which ended yesterday.

Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival to feature unique performances; Loreto hosts to build music room; Ho Chi Minh monument design contest launched in UK; Vietnam: 25 years of change through lens of US photographer

 HCMC’s market monitoring agency and French fashion firm Louis Vuitton Melletier (LV) on April 1 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation to enforce intellectual property rights.

Vietnamese real estate developers have been increasingly calling for foreign investment in their apartment projects as the domestic property market has warmed up after many years.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many preschool children stay in classrooms located in dilapidated warehouses while local authorities’ plans for bigger schools remain on paper.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Workers will receive a one-off social insurance payment after they quit their last jobs if the National Assembly approves an amendment to Article 60 of the 2014 Social Security Law.

Vietnam should take all possible measures to thwart corruption in projects funded by Japan’s ODA loans; otherwise, Japanese aid will be stopped, said Mori Mutsuya, chief representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Vietnam.