VietNamNet Bridge – The organising board of the Edtech Asia Hackathon 2016 contest announced the winning teams at the two-day contest in Ha Noi last weekend.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Duc Kien, or ‘mogul Kien,’ and Tram Be once had long arms in the banking sector. But not now.

The Thanh Oai district People’s Committee in Hanoi held a ceremony on April 12 to receive the Prime Minister’s decision recognising the bas-relief of the nation’s Legendary Father Lac Long Quan as a national treasure.

China has re-deployed its Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig near Vietnamese waters at a time that coincided with the NA's election of new leaders. It could be supposed that the move is a test for Vietnam’s new leadership?

 Authorities in Ha Tinh Province are investigating a mass fish death in Ky Anh Town after local farmers raised fears it was caused by sewage discharge from the nearby Formosa Industrial Zone.

 Danang City’s Son Tra District have decided to install lights for a local park following a proposal of a student.

 The Vietnam Report in co-ordination with VietNamNet on April 12 announced the 2016 list of top 500 fastest growing and most prospective enterprises in Vietnam (FAST500) which has been held for the sixth consecutive year.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha said after being appointed as Minister of Education, he had received of thousands of SMS messages making suggestions for the development of the education and training sector.

 The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus declined for the second week to 4,949 in the week through April 9, from 5,092 the week earlier,

 Viettel has won a $1.5 billion bid in Myanmar to establish a 4G mobile network in the country.

Vietnam’s state-run oil and gas group PetroVietnam announced a bid to entice new investors to the group-led $8 billion Block B-O Mon gas exploitation and pipeline complex.

Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel

  VinaCapital’s Vietnam Opportunity Fund is now listed on London’s main stock exchange as part of the fund’s efforts to raise foreign investor interest in the Vietnamese market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – World U8 chess champion Nguyen Le Cam Hien received a sponsorship from NutiFood.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Da Nang-Viet Nam team was knocked down when a huge wave struck it amid strong winds last night on the ninth race’s 23rd day.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will play Hong Kong in the first match of a four-sided tournament in Myanmar on June 3.

 Famous actresses Angela Phuong Trinh and Thanh Thuy, who are main casts of the Vietnamese movie “Taxi, Em Ten Gi?”, have been invited to the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place in May in France.

 The Vietnam Writers' Association has decided to translate the war novel 'Bien Ban ChienTranh 1-2-3-4.75' (War Minutes January-April, 1975) written by veteran journalist Tran Mai Hanh into English.

 China will continue discharging water from a hydropower station into the downstream Mekong River for drought relief, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said on April 12.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on April 12 sold the VND100 souvenir bill to mark its 65th founding anniversary (May 6, 1951).