Vietnamese corvette 381 sailed for Brunei and Singapore on April 28 to take part in military exercises as part of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM+).

 The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) invited Vietnamese Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich to speak on the second day of the upcoming 15th Shangri-La Dialogue on June 4.

 There were no surprises in the second round match of the Badminton Asia Championship on April 28 when Vietnamese Nguyen Tien Minh lost to world leading athlete Lin Dan in the men’s singles event.

 Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuc on April 28 won the first gold medal for Vietnam at the Singapore Open Track and Field Championships in race walking by capturing the women’s 20-km bronze.

 The Vietnamese female weightlifting team are likely to earn a spot at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

Disbursement of foreign direct investment (FDI) surged to an estimated US$4.7 billion in the first four months, a year-on-year rise of 12 per cent, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.  

 Some 10ha of forest in U Minh Ha National Park in the southernmost province of Ca Mau was destroyed by a fire that broke out on Wednesday afternoon and lasted until 2am.

 Co Gai Den Tu Hom Qua (Girl from Yesterday), a novel by best-sellering author Nguyen Nhat Anh, will be adapted for film in a project by CJ Entertainment Company.

 A photo exhibition has opened at the HCM City Book Pedestrian Street on Nguyễn Văn Bình Street in District 1 to celebrate the 41st anniversary of Reunification Day.    

VietNamNet Bridge - Ruoi linh den as called by Vietnamese, or Hermetia Illucens, are believed to be useful in treating organic waste.

 Euro zone finance ministers will not meet on Thursday and need more time to discuss Greek reforms that would unlock new loans, signaling significant differences remain between Athens and its lenders on bailout targets.

“As a minister, I am sorry,” Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha told local media yesterday as he led an inspection team to take samples of water and sediment in the sea off of Vung Ang in the central Ha Tinh Province.

 Myanmar has banned lucrative logging operations as the newly-elected government of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi steps up a battle on deforestation, an environment official said on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam takes pride in its original way of settling banks’ bad debt, which does not consume the state budget. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The management board of a secondary school in Thai Binh province has decided to expel three students from the school because they urinated in the "wrong place". 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Young people are encouraged to participate in a contest to find hip-hop dancers for a show staged by the French-based art troupe Compagnie par Terre in HCM City in early May.

 Everything has been ready for the opening of the 2016 Hue Festival slated for April 29, which promises to offer sumptuous entertainments through the course of one week with 53 events of all kinds and nearly 50 sidelines activities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Banh It Tower, also known as Silver Tower, is located in Tuy Phuoc District, 19km north of Quy Nhon City in the central coast province of Binh Dinh.

 The real estate sector reported a reduction of nearly 3.4 trillion VND (152.5 million USD) in inventory in April, from the previous month, to an estimated value of 41.5 trillion VND (1.86 billion USD).

  Vietnam is forecast to grow 6.8 percent in 2016 and 6.9 percent in 2017, according to the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, released by the ESCAP on April 28.