Ecopark hosts hot air balloon festival, Thanh Hoa opens additional display house of Ho Dynasty Citadel, Vietnam attends itn’l bonsai and tea festival in Slovakia, Hung Yen moves to revive Pho Hien relic complex

 VietNamNet Bridge – In line with the overall trend of market recovery, Vietnam’s real estate sector has enjoyed encouraging results during the first quarter of the year, becoming the second-highest sector recipient of foreign direct investment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Director of the Ha Noi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, To Van Dong, spoke to Tien Phong newspaper about Ha Noi being listed as one of TripAdvisor's top destinations.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The quality of human resources of Vietnam ranked 11th among 12 countries in the World Bank’s survey.

VietNamNet Bridge – An attempt to misuse environmental protection fees collected from miners was uncovered by a Vietnam Minerals Coalition survey.

 The satisfaction index of public administration services reflecting the levels of individual and organisational satisfaction with some public administrative services will be released this October, said a conference in Hanoi.

Vietnam has been named among the best destinations for “business process outsourcing” (BPO) in the world, far beyond China and India, according to the Gulf Times on April 19. Vietnam jumped from its ranking of five in 2014 to the top in 2015.

 Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) plans to sell VND8 trillion (US$371 million) worth of bad debts at book value to Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) this year after disposing of VND6.1 trillion-plus bad debts in 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge - With 40,000 samples including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, fossils, plants ... and some new species of Vietnam, the Vietnam National Museum of Nature has introduced the history of life over 3.6 billion years.

Thief gets death penalty for killing 3 people, Rock crushes 2 to death in Ha Giang, Fallen tree kills 3, wounds 1, Saboteurs destroy thousands of rubber plants, HCM City needs 20,000 new employees next month

VND100m homes a low-income dream, Vingroup enters exhibition, fair industry, Amway leads in direct selling in Vietnam in 2014, Housing stimulus disbursement stagnates, Market for canned fruit products neglected

 A webpage, a part of the hanoidep.vn website, collecting reviews and information on restaurants in Hanoi was unveiled on April 22 in Hanoi by the Hanoi Culture Fund.

  More than 120,000 students will sit for the national high school exam this year in Ha Noi.

 Hail storms created widespread havoc in Da Lat City in the Central Highlands' Lam Dong Province yesterday, just one day after another heavy hail storm caused vast damage in the province.

 An ancient lithophone was recently discovered in the central province of Quang Binh, the first of its kind ever found in the province, confirmed the provincial museum on April 22.

 The Vietnam Report in collaboration with VietnamNet on April 22 presented the 2015 FAST500 awards to the top-500 fastest growing firms in the country with Samsung Electronics Vietnam Co Ltd taking first place.

 The president of Emirates-based Nakheel Group unveiled on April 22 that construction of a US$550 million urban tourism centre in Quang Ninh province is on track to open late this year.

President Truong Tan Sang called upon Asian and African countries to enhance their connectivity for global peace and stability on the basis of respecting international law during his speech at the Asian-African Conference.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Three skeletons of ancient Vietnamese people have been found lying next to each other in an area of 6 m2, 1.8 m deep at an archaeological site in Ru Diep Mount of Ha Tinh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vingroup has submitted its proposal to buy the three largest railways stations in Vietnam – Hanoi, Saigon and Da Nang – to the Ministry of Transport.