Another year has flown by and the skyline of Saigon is once again filled with a cornucopia of vibrantly colourful and fashionable billboards and LED displays in the lead up to National Reunification Day (April 30).

 VietNamNet Bridge - Flocks of pigeons appear regularly near the Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral and have been there a long time, thanks to the efforts of

VietNamNet Bridge - Unlike the 2005 Investment Law, the new Investment Law in 2014 includes clearer details about business sectors subject to investment incentives.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The price of Golden coin turtle (or Chinese three-striped box turtle) in Vietnam is around VND300 million (nearly $15,000) per kilo. In China and Hong Kong, the price is nearly VND1 billion ($50,000) per kilo.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Colonel Tran Minh Son, the former chief of the Sai Gon - Cho Lon - Gia Dinh liberation army commandos during the Anti-American War, says he'll remember the words of his supervisor until the day he dies.

The great victory of the resistance war against the US aggressors constitutes “the triumph of Vietnam’s military arts and guidelines under the Party’s sound and creative leadership”, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asserted.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As the monsoon season approaches, Ha Noi authorities have developed several scenarios to cope with flooding to protect people and their produce.

 Vietnam to set up five fishery centres, Life insurance records strong growth in first two months, Hanoi to drop stagnant FDI projects, Customs officers accused of asking for bribes, Japan's Nitori to build second furniture plant in Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge - Metro Cash & Carry Vietnam, the German invested retailer, which repeatedly reported losses over the last 12 years in Vietnam, has engaged in transfer pricing to evade tax, according to the General Department of Taxation (GDT).

VietNamNet Bridge - Japanese investors have shown their interest in the Vietnamese housing market, but they have been very cautious about their investment decisions.  

 VietNamNet Bridge - The largest whale skeleton in Vietnam dating back 250 years is preserved in the central province of Binh Thuan. Every day local people still burn incense and worship the skeleton with special respect.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Located at 101 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street of Hoi An ancient town, Tan Ky old house is a perfect example of an 18th merchant’s residence in this once-important commercial port town.

VietNamNet Bridge – The central city has created a pilot programme to build stronger houses in disaster-affected areas in co-operation with domestic and foreign insurance companies. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – While Muslims are a minority in Viet Nam, the halal food industry here has great potential, Abdullah Abdulrohman, director of the Halal Viet Nam Export and Import Co Ltd, said.

Forty years after the US airlift campaign that brought about 3,000 Vietnamese orphans abroad, how are the kids today? Some of them are lucky to have a family, some are still searching for their origins, and some now live in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On a small stage decorated minimally with a bamboo bed and a house made out of a carton with a thatched roof, a group of students from To Hoang primary school performed the play Su Tich Cay Vu Sua

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has approved the sale of sua trees grown by local residents, but Hanoi People’s Committee says that city authorities have the right to decide what to do with the precious wood.

The sophisticated endoscopy surgery technique invented by Associate Professor Dr Tran Ngoc Luong, the director of the Hanoi-based Central Hospital of Endocrinology, has been recognized worldwide.

“I raised my hand towards my student and gave him a slap as he irritated me by answering me back,” is a sentence written by a teacher found in an “advice column” of a local newspaper. 

VietNamNet Bridge - As the value of the e-commerce market is expected to increase from $2 billion in 2013 to $4 billion in 2015, hundreds of forwarding agents have been established recently.