Oil slicks have appeared again along the coast of Vung Tau city in southern Viet Nam in what has become an unexplained annual phenomenon.

Viet Nam's national U23 team will meet U23 Uzbekistan in a friendly match in HCM City today in preparation for the 2016 AFC U23 Championship qualifiers.

Around 91 per cent of businesses in Viet Nam expect to virtualise at least 30 per cent of their IT infrastructure in the next two year, according to a survey conducted by VMware Inc .

Credit institutions have been forced to sell their non-performing loans (NPLs) to national debt dealer Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC) to meet regulated deadlines.

Viet Nam plans to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rice cultivation alone by 14 per cent by 2030.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has just approved a plan to build Viet Nam's first high-speed railway by 2030.

Placing remote sensing technology in river basins gave early forecasts to residents, helping to minimise flood related losses, experts said in Ha Noi yesterday.

Viet Nam would struggle to pay millions of its retirees pensions soon in the future as only about 20 per cent of the workforce are currently contributing to the social insurance fund.

High-ranking Government and Party officials should be banned from keeping money in foreign bank accounts and owning property abroad.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is one of the world's major rice exporters, but it still does not have a recognised niche when it comes to the international market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Those who have watched the award-winning movie Pao’s Story, directed by Do Quang Hai, may dream of a journey to Sung La, a small village in the northern province of Ha Giang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Alif Naaba, an artist composer, singer and musician who won the Gold Kunde award for the Best Artist in 2014 at “Victoires de la Musique” award ceremony in Burkina Faso, will show up at the World Music performance

At daybreak, 72-year-old Nguyen Thi Tim picks up a few handfuls of grain and scatters them under a large Senegal mahogany tree that stands in front of her small, typical street-side tea stall.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This year Vietnam’s external relations activities will focus on promoting cooperation in multilateral mechanisms and deepening comprehensive and strategic partnerships with key partners.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 296 badminton players from 17 countries and territories around the world will be competing for top honours at the Ciputra Hanoi-Yonex Sunrise Vietnam International Challenge 2015

Around Hanoi’s most famous lake, Ho Tay (West Lake), are more than 20 temples and pagodas ranked as national relic sites for their unique cultural and architectural values such as Tran Quoc, Kim Lien, Pho Linh, Tao Sach and Van Nien.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Property companies nationwide geared up their operations right after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, accompanied by high expectations of market recovery this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Using only grinding stones, needles, razors and smoke, a self-trained painter in Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam has created unique works.

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