Organisations and individuals can now easily access socio-economic data at provincial and district levels in both English and Vietnamese at the new website www.worldbank.org/mapvietnam, launched by the World Bank recently.

  Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister, died on Monday aged 91, triggering a flood of tributes to the man who oversaw the tiny city-state's rapid rise from a British colonial backwater to a global trade and financial center. 

 State President Truong Tan Sang left Hanoi on March 23 for his three-day working visit to Laos at the invitation of General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and State President Choummaly Sayasone.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s recent visit to Australia and New Zealand opened new charters in the robust development of friendship and comprehensive partnership between Vietnam and the two Oceanian countries.

 President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan chaired a Vietnam-India Business Forum in New Delhi on March 21 during his official visit to India.

 Vietnamese Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung suggested enhancing taxation cooperation among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members to deal with budget revenue reduction due to outside impacts, pricing transfer and tax fraud.

 Australian Ambassador Hugh Borrowman has praised the National Assembly and Government of Vietnam for their hard work to ensure the 132 nd IPU Assembly is a success.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Making a machine that both ploughs and rakes has earned Cao Phi Ho several plaudits, but he lacks resources needed to have his invention replace expensive imported machines.

 The recent resurgence in the country’s residential real estate segment has partially been attributed to the changes in legislation that are set to take effect from July 2015 according to industry insiders.

VietNamNet Bridge – In recent years, weaving machines have been playing a bigger role in Dinh Yen traditional mat-making craft village in Lap Vo District, Dong Thap Province though it has long been wellknown for handmade mats.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Toa Tau (train carriage) is a small but special school located at 632 Dien Bien Phu, Binh Thanh District, HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge - The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has released an ultimatum for commercial banks that they must sell all their bad debts by the end of the third quarter of 2015.

 Transport enterprises oppose the Ministry of Transport's decision to raise fees on the HCM City–Trung Luong Highway by 50 per cent from June 1.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Gong performances are popular at spring festivals in the Central Highlands. For Central Highlanders, gongs have become part of their lives. In recent years, local gong artists have organized classes to teach gong playing

 Long holidays do not lead to low production as some think, Vu Quang Tho, director of the Workers and Trade Union Institute, told the Hai Quan (Customs) newspaper.

  Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Hong Truong talked about the conditions for investors to buy the operation rights to a number of airports in the country after the ministry unveiled an airport sale plan. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 140th anniversary celebration of Bizet's opera Carmen will be held at the HCM City Opera House next Sunday with a two-part performance, featuring excerpts from the opera and a ballet staged by P. A. Kim Quy.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many large construction projects have resumed work, while coal prices have decreased, helping to cut production costs. Cement manufacturers see great opportunities to revive their business..

 VietNamNet Bridge – These exotic species have a peculiar shape that is different from most species seen in the wild.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For sugarcane farmers in the central and southern regions it has been a double whammy as bad weather and diseases first hit their crop and then low prices reduced their incomes.