VietNamNet Bridge – The South African team, newcomers to the 2015 Da Nang International Fireworks Competition, will perform the curtain-raiser on April 28, said the organising committee at a media briefing yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some of Norway's top orchestral musicians and internationally famed opera artists like Siri Torjesen, Magnus Staveland, and Cho Hae Ryong will join the HBSO Symphony Orchestra and Choir for concerts

Young Hanoi team tries to rescue dogs, cats, Forest land dwindles in Central Highlands’ localities, EVN says sorry for BinhThuan pollution, More than 300 workers hospitalized after food poisoning, Hanoi hospitals face water shortage

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 400 patients have been treated through stem cell transplant therapy across Viet Nam since the first case was recorded in HCM City two decades ago, a report revealed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three commune officials in central Thua Thien, Hue Province have been caught using fake high school diplomas.

 Free entry to ocean festival in Nha Trang, Fifteen outstanding architecture solutions to go on show, Exhibition on lives of queen mothers opens, Exhibition features Hanoi’s water, Two big festivals to come up in Vung Tau this week

The Chair of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, Doan Nguyen Duc, one of Wall Street Journal’s 20 most powerful Asian business people in 2011, tops the list of the “big bosses” with high monthly salaries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After a two-hour ride from the centre of Thanh Hoa Province, 150 km south of Hanoi, I finally reached its principal tourist attraction, Cam Luong fish stream, lying at the foot of Truong Sinh Mountain in Luong Ngoc Village.

Final clinical trials of a malaria vaccine - the first to reach this stage - suggest it could help protect millions of children against malaria.

 VietNamNet Bridge – How will the position of the three state commercial joint stock banks in Vietnam - Vietinbank, Vietcombank, BIDV - change after their mergers?

 Due to the complex nature of finalizing foreign nationals’ personal income tax, enterprises and employees are suggested to develop a specific sequence for tax finalization in order to avoid mistakes in practice.

VietNamNet Bridge – Youths from many villages in Yang Bac Commune, Dak Po District in Gia Lai Province, are raising funds to preserve and promote gong culture.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fifty-three-year-old Do Van Ut says he'll remember the face of the young man until he dies.

Vietnam to adopt int'l financial reporting norms in 2016, Banks see improved business climate in 2015, Vingroup announces major management change, VIB named Best Banking Deal Vietnam 2015, Vietnam’s trade deficit with China hit nearly US$8 billion

 Miss Korean Honey Lee shines in Hoi An, Top 5 to compete at finals in Big Cola contest, Exhibition highlights Vietnamese housing, British Council announces Shakespeare Lives, L'Espace screens France's hot animation

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two ancient Buddhist pagodas in the west of Hanoi – Tay Phuong and Thay – received certificates recognising them as special national relic sites on April 23.

The only Vietnamese corporation in the six companies shortlisted as the World Economic Forum’s Global Growth Companies in East Asia 2015 was the Binh Duong-based Hoa Sen Group – the leading manufacturer of building materials in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This vehicle was the gift of Emperor Thanh Thai to his mother – Queen Mother Tu Ming to use in the royal garden. After the Queen Mother died, King Thanh Thai sold the rickshaw to a French soldier in 1907 to get money to buy a car.

 Technology giant Amazon has reported a loss of $57m (£38m) in the first quarter of 2015 and has also given more detail about the performance of its web services business.

 Bank interest rates forecast to fall in Q2, Vietnam consumer confidence dips for second month - survey, HCM City attracts US$1.2 bln in overseas remittances, One-stop-shop customs mechanism to be launched at sea ports in May