VietNamNet Bridge – There's been a continuous increase of illegal forest exploitation, transportation, logging and forest land encroachment in Dak Lak Province, Vo Minh Son, an official of the People's Committee, said.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications announced the rules and guidelines for the ASEAN ICT Awards 2015 on April 9.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Oysters being raised at Tan Thanh Commune in Go Cong Dong District in the southern province of Tien Giang have died en masse during the past three weeks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam must improve the effectiveness of its participation in international tourism fairs, said Luong Hoai Nam, a member of the Tourism Advisory Board.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The national U23 football team have been set a goal at the 28th Southeast Asian Game in Singapore in June to reach the semi-finals.

HCM City residents have repeatedly lodged complaints about the dangers posed by a golf course within the Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

VietNamNet Bridge - Indian pharmaceutical firms are eyeing the Vietnamese market as local companies cannot satisfy demand.  

A private museum was inaugurated on April 9 in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh to preserve and uphold Muong ethnic culture.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Summer, the examination season for Vietnamese students, is coming. This means lots of pressure are waiting for students; but not for fifth graders because they don't have to take lower secondary school entrance exams any more.

VietNamNet Bridge - Mobile network operators still have not found technical solutions to prevent spam messages.

 A conference was held in Rome, Italy on April 9 for Vietnamese and Italian universities to explore opportunities for training partnerships.

 Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang decided to set up an inspection team to look into expressway projects contracted to the Republic of Korea’s POSCO Engineering and Construction (E&C) on April 9.

 The Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) will be the latest bank to join the wave of mergers among commercial banks and finance companies that is expected to become a major trend this year.

Laotian immigrants to be registered from next month, FTA to intensify Vietnam-EEU ties: FM Spokesman, Vietnam believes in Cuba’s efforts towards American development, Party Economic Commission Head meets WB official

 The German media has run a number of articles highlighting Vietnam’s successful organisation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s 132nd Assembly (IPU-132) in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As one of the most typical products of ethnic minority people in the mountainous region, tho cam (brocade) now has entered daily lives of people in the lowlands who do not use the materials only for its original purpose,

 Admiral Nguyen Van Hien, Deputy Minister of Defence and Vietnam People’s Navy Commander hosted a reception for the visiting Secretary of the Navy of the United States Ray Mabus on April 9 in Hanoi.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong arrived in Chinese Yunnan province’s Kunming city on April 9 during his official visit to China from April 7.  

  A cultural extravaganza promoting the vibrant traditional customs of the Republic of Korea (RoK) will be featured at the first RoK-Vietnam Cultural Festival, taking place at the Quan Ngua Sports Palace in Hanoi on April 11.

 VietNamNet Bridge - "It's a shame," was a comment heard from many experts who spoke to the media about the recent allegations of ODA corruption in Vietnam. Most agreed that anti-corruption measures are ineffective.