The increasing number of 3G subscribers in Viet Nam is set to boost the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in the country, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Le Nam Thang said at a conference yesterday.

 The greenback rates in most of the local commercial banks yesterday touched the ceiling price of VND21,673 per dollar set by the central bank in January.

 New York based Business Insider recently featured intriguing images by photographer Khanh Hmoong that blend Vietnam’s past and present by superimposing historic photos over one taken from the exact location in the present.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Nam Anh, a 28-year-old Ha Noi man, was recently hospitalised after eating spring rolls he bought at a market in the city's Long Bien District.

VietNamNet Bridge – Concerned individuals and organisations are offering their comments on a draft of 45 criteria for evaluating the quality of English textbooks for primary to high school education nationwide. 

 It has recently been unveiled that six Vietnamese pop stars will compete in a Korean spinoff of the hit British game show ‘Popstar to Operastar’ against 24 other contestants from – Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia.

 The national taekwondo team will compete in the WTF World Taekwondo Championships 2015, to be held in Chelyabinsk in Russia, from May 12 to 18.

 A send-off ceremony for the Vietnamese delegation to the 28th Southeast Asian Games is planned at the National Sports Centre in Hanoi on May 19, marking the 125th birth anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh.

The Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) will merge with Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank (PG Bank) in the third quarter of this year, said Nguyen Van Thang, Chairman of Vietinbank's Board of Directors.

 Vietnam's credit growth rate reached 2.78 percent in the first four months this year – the highest in three years, according to the National Finance Supervision Council (NFSC).

Set to provide a bridge for cross-cultural exchange, the “Europe Days 2015” program will come back to open a window into the richness of the European Union’s different cultural traditions with a series of entertaining and intellectual activities.

 Rains on the early morning of May 6 saved thousands of hectares of crops suffering from prolonged drought in the Central Highlands provinces of Dak Lak and Gia Lai.

Over 35,700 Vietnamese labourers have gone overseas for work in the first four months of this year, representing 37.58 percent of the yearly target, according to the Overseas Labour Management Department.

 NA Standing Committee prepares for plenary sitting, Party Central Committee talks local governance model, Dak Nong, Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province forge stronger defence ties, Thai princess visits central Quang Nam province

VietNamNet Bridge - The pine forest in Subregion No 144A of the Da Nhim Protective Forest in Lam Dong has been contaminated with chemicals.

 Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations Hoang Binh Quan had a meeting in Hanoi on May 6 with a delegation from the House of Representatives at the US Congress.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Ambassador to Malaysia Pham Cao Phong attended the second ASEAN-EU high-level dialogue on maritime security cooperation, which took place in Kuala Lumpur on May 4-6.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is looking to building a low-carbon rice industry through 2020, as heard during an agricultural forum in Vi Thanh City in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang on May 5.

VietNamNet Bridge - The independence and objectivity of statistical data released by ministries and local authorities is dubious, Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh has said. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Roscosmos, the Russian Federation Space Agency, is negotiating with Vietnam on the deployment of the Glonass signal adjustment stations, a move that scientists believe is good news for Vietnam.