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Drought wreaks havoc on various regions

 VietNamNet Bridge – Crops in the central, Central Highlands and Mekong Delta regions have been pinched by severe drought and the National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting predicted that the situation would not end soon.

Vietnam Airlines inaugurates direct flight to London Heathrow

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Airlines ran its inaugural flight on the direct route to Heathrow Airport in London, the UK on March 31.  

New policies take effect since April

 VietNamNet Bridge – New Decrees on increasing wage for low-income officials, autonomy mechanism for non-business public units, conditions to select projects in form of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and projects subject

Paracetamol ‘no good for back pain'

 Paracetamol is ineffective at treating back pain and osteoarthritis despite being a recommended treatment, a group of Australian researchers has warned.

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Operation Pacific Angel plane lands in Da Nang, Ship rescues fisherman injured in propeller accident, Vietnam, Cuba labour agencies boost cooperation, Formosa scaffold collapse to face trial, Cosmetics goods to be tested for origins

Art & Entertainment News 1/4

 Dogma Prize 2015 calls for entries, First giant IMAX theater to be launched with ‘Furious 7’, Thai-Kadai ethnic groups’ culture promoted, Vietnam justifies cable car project at Son Doong Cave, 40 music programmes come to hospitals in 2015

Sports News 1/4

 14 teams to compete in football championship; HCM City win Martial Arts Cup; Osla brand to support HAGL football team

HCM City swimmer breaks records left and right

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five records were broken on the closing day of the National Short-Course Swimming and Fins-swimming Championships in Da Nang yesterday, March 31.

Vietnam makes active contributions to IPU-132 Assembly

 Vietnam has put forth a number of ideas and proposals at the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-132) which have received the high level of consensus from other member countries.

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 Successful real estate transactions sees strong surge in Q1, Quang Binh seeks more investors, BIDV offered US$500 million on-lending grid development project, Retail, service sectors post encouraging growth in Q1

Symphony concert featuring world renowned musicians

 Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) is performing with two special guests — American conductor David Miller and the young Russian pianist Ilya Rashvovskiy — on April 3 and 4 at the Hanoi Opera House.

TH True Milk opens Moscow dairy: Russian media

 Vietnamese dairy firm TH True Milk opened a US$1-billion dairy in a Moscow suburb, Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Son told a Russian newspaper on March 30.

Vietnam Idol show hits licence issues

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Idol show-runners held auditions in HCM City on Monday, despite the Ministry of Information and Communications' decision last week not to air the show in April as scheduled.

Airport expansion suspended to avoid delays

 VietNamNet Bridge – The expansion of plane parking areas at Tan Son Nhat airport in HCM City has been delayed so as not to disrupt passengers during the approaching end-of-April holiday period.

Ancient tree root worth $1.5mil in Soc Trang Province

 VietNamNet Bridge – A man in the southern province of Soc Trang owns a unique ancient root with a circumference of 30 meters weighing about 30 tons.

Vietnam beats Macau 7-0 to enter AFC U23 Champs finals

 Vietnam are heading to Qatar for the AFC U23 Championship finals after crushing Macau 7-0 on March 31 in their last Group I match at the Shah Alam Stadium in Sepang, Malaysia.

Ministry says bauxite projects likely to incur initial losses

  The two bauxite mining and processing projects in the Central Highland Province of Lam Dong, which became operational in October 2013, would incur losses for four to five years.

Red River Delta lures US$65 billion in foreign funds

  The Song Hong (Red River) Delta region had attracted 5,411 foreign-invested projects worth US$65.5 billion till March 1 this year.

National gymnastics team training in Canada

 The Vietnamese gymnastics team has left the country to attend a training course in Canada from March 30 to April 20, announced the General Department of Sports and Physical Training on March 31.

Lao men arrested for drug smuggling

 Two Lao men were arrested in the border area in the central province of Quang Tri on March 31 for trying to smuggle 10,000 illegal pills into Vietnam.