Free concerts to entertain HCM City, Free drum workshop at Saigon Outcast, Chocolate festival stirs up Metropole, Electronic nights to feature US, UK artists, Affordable "Art for You" makes a comeback

 Hanoi looks to develop hi-tech agriculture, PMI records rise in four years, Phone, electronics exports edge higher, MoIT aims to increase exports of agro-fishery-forestry products, HCM City seeks NA nod for Metro 5

 Vietnam has taken top spot in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Service Location Index of Cushman & Wakefield.

 The Emperor Cruises limited company has launched its five-star cruise ship with numerous luxury services for tourists exploring Nha Trang Bay in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

 Vietnam's Bai Dinh Pagoda remains a popular draw for tourists, with more than 300,000 visitors over the Tet holiday to marvel at its Buddha and a millennium of Buddhist architecture.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will play archrival Thailand in the semi-final of the ASEAN Football Federation Women's Championship, following their 4-0 win over the Philippines yesterday (May 6) in HCM City.

Binh Thuan has asked the Government for funds to upgrade 25 seriously degraded dams so that they can store more water as the central province reels from one of its worst droughts in a long time and dams are rapidly running out of water.

 International conservation group IUCN plans to extend Ha Long Bay to include the Cat Ba Archipelago, an adjoining holiday resort area.

 Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam (Vietcombank) has bought Government bonds worth US$1 billion from the Finance Ministry, Thoi bao Kinh te Sai Gon reported online.

 The increasing number of 3G subscribers in Viet Nam is set to boost the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in the country, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Le Nam Thang said at a conference yesterday.

 The greenback rates in most of the local commercial banks yesterday touched the ceiling price of VND21,673 per dollar set by the central bank in January.

 New York based Business Insider recently featured intriguing images by photographer Khanh Hmoong that blend Vietnam’s past and present by superimposing historic photos over one taken from the exact location in the present.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Nam Anh, a 28-year-old Ha Noi man, was recently hospitalised after eating spring rolls he bought at a market in the city's Long Bien District.

VietNamNet Bridge – Concerned individuals and organisations are offering their comments on a draft of 45 criteria for evaluating the quality of English textbooks for primary to high school education nationwide. 

 It has recently been unveiled that six Vietnamese pop stars will compete in a Korean spinoff of the hit British game show ‘Popstar to Operastar’ against 24 other contestants from – Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia.

 The national taekwondo team will compete in the WTF World Taekwondo Championships 2015, to be held in Chelyabinsk in Russia, from May 12 to 18.

 A send-off ceremony for the Vietnamese delegation to the 28th Southeast Asian Games is planned at the National Sports Centre in Hanoi on May 19, marking the 125th birth anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh.

The Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) will merge with Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank (PG Bank) in the third quarter of this year, said Nguyen Van Thang, Chairman of Vietinbank's Board of Directors.

 Vietnam's credit growth rate reached 2.78 percent in the first four months this year – the highest in three years, according to the National Finance Supervision Council (NFSC).

Set to provide a bridge for cross-cultural exchange, the “Europe Days 2015” program will come back to open a window into the richness of the European Union’s different cultural traditions with a series of entertaining and intellectual activities.