VietNamNet Bridge – Beating an iron bar on the head, using a machine to drill in the stomach and throat, making a 6mm iron bar bend with the throat, pulling a cyclo with the eyes ... are the hard-to-believe performances of Quang Hien.

  Real estate will attract lucrative foreign direct investments in 2015 with the market recovering and Viet Nam set to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and other free trade pacts.

Meritorious Artist Thanh Thuy of the Military Zone 7 Art Troupe, one of the most popular singers of traditional and revolutionary music, will perform live in HCM City on May 2 for the Reunification Day celebrations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After a revamp, the American Center library under the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Consulate General in HCMC resumed operation early this month with a number of changes and improvements.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Noi Bai International Airport will host concerts twice a week to serve passengers.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Viettel has estimated the time for repair of the sea cable from three weeks to a month.

 Hoang Nguyen Investment Joint Stock Company on April 20 got an investment certificate to manufacture biochips for medical diagnosis at Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) in HCMC’s District 9.

 Vu Danh Viet will represent Vietnam at the FameLab international final in London in June, which is an international science competition.

 As many as 53 excellent IT products and 16 services received the Sao Khue Awards at a ceremony in Hanoi on April 24.

 PM Nguyen Tan Dung chaired the Cabinet’s monthly meeting in Ha Noi on April 25.

 Viettel Group is planning to sell a part of its stake in subsidiary Viettel Global Investment JSC (Viettel Global).

 There is a close and consistent correlation between the use of unlicensed software and malware as well as security threats, experts have warned.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Giay have diverse genres of folk singing. The lyrics are about legends, natural and social phenomena, love, and life. Community singing sessions always rally all villagers in the hamlet.

 Despite the recent boom in airfreight, Viet Nam has not set up a comprehensive logistics chain to take advantage, delegates heard at the second International Conference and Exhibition for Airfreight Logistics Viet Nam

  Foreign trade lender Vietcombank continues looking for a merger partner, according to a statement by bank Chairman Nghiem Xuan Thanh, speaking during an April 24 shareholders meeting.

 The Pu Mat National Park in the central province of Nghe An has released a number of wild animals back into their natural surroundings, a forest management official said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese consumers want to purchase local farm produce, but they can only find Chinese products, and farmers cannot sell their products because merchants are selling primarily Chinese products.

 As many as 150 outstanding carved and ceramic products are being showcased at the bronze book and engraved wood exhibition, which opens in the Central province of Thua Thien- Hue on April 24 as part of the Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2015.

 Ellen Pao, the woman who took a Silicon Valley firm to court over sexism claims and lost, has been asked to pay legal costs of nearly $1m (£660,000).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Thanh Ha Cultural Terracotta Park is being built in the ancient town of Hoi An, covering approximately 6,000 m2 with an investment of about $1 million.