Renowned musicians from Vietnam and Norway will gather for a special cultural exchange celebrating the two countries’ friendship on April 17-18 in Hanoi.

 The Central province of Quang Nam supports and facilitates two low-cost carriers Jetstar Pacific Airlines and Vietjet air to open return flights between Chu Lai and Ho Chi Minh City.

 A programme to combat corruption and promote thrift in the 2011-15 period helped Hanoi save nearly 3.7 trillion VND (171 million VND), heard a conference reviewing the programme in the capital on April 14.

 Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) on April 10 extended a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on supplying and receiving Vietnamese workers to the RoK under the Employment Permit System (EPS).

 Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh hosted a reception on April 14 in Hanoi for the newly-appointed Russian Defence A ttaché to Vietnam, Colonel Andrey Petrovich Likhachev.

 The official visit to Vietnam by Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg from April 16-18 is expected to boost bilateral relations which have grown over the last four decades.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi-based Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) hopes to choose a foreign strategic investor later this year or next year, said BIDV Chair Tran Bac Ha on April 14.

 The WHO has urged Ebola survivors to be even more cautious during sexual contact to ensure the virus is not passed on to their partners.

 Cuba has welcomed as "fair" a US decision to remove it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying it should never have been on the list in the first place.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A three-horn buffalo was introduced at Ben Tre Coconut Festival 2015, which closed yesterday in the southern province of Ben Tre.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The latest ao dai (Vietnamese gown) designed by Hanoi’s well-known designer Duc Hung were recently shown on the catwalk in Europe. The trip took place from April 2 to 15, in the "Love and Memories" program.

Chairman Nguyen Van Thang of the Hanoi-based Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) said the bank would only support OceanBank and GPBank restructuring under the direction of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

 VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Aviation Tourism Corporation (VATC) will apply new charges for the Sleep Pod services at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi from April 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The Economic Times of India on April 14 reported that Essar Energy Company (India) will start experimental drilling at its oil blocks in the Mumbai High oil field and in Vietnam in September and October.

VietNamNet Bridge - Major foreign retail groups are competing for a slice of the commercial retail pie in Vietnam, despite the closure of some malls in Hanoi.  

In the past several days, hundreds of trucks carrying wood from Laos to Vietnam were stuck at the Lao Bao International Border Gate. VietNamNet took the following pictures on April 13.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A wedding in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak used five tractors decorated with 1,000 balloons to pick up the bride, attracting a great deal of local attention.

 Air safety authorities in Japan are investigating how a South Korean Asiana Airlines plane skidded off a runway on landing at Hiroshima airport.

 About 400 migrants are feared drowned after their boat capsized off Libya, survivors have told Save the Children.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thanh Hoa, renowned for its Dong Son culture, has province has been selected to host the 2015 National Tourism Year with the theme ‘Connecting World Heritage’,