VietNamNet Bridge – Alif Naaba, an artist composer, singer and musician who won the Gold Kunde award for the Best Artist in 2014 at “Victoires de la Musique” award ceremony in Burkina Faso, will show up at the World Music performance

At daybreak, 72-year-old Nguyen Thi Tim picks up a few handfuls of grain and scatters them under a large Senegal mahogany tree that stands in front of her small, typical street-side tea stall.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This year Vietnam’s external relations activities will focus on promoting cooperation in multilateral mechanisms and deepening comprehensive and strategic partnerships with key partners.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 296 badminton players from 17 countries and territories around the world will be competing for top honours at the Ciputra Hanoi-Yonex Sunrise Vietnam International Challenge 2015

Around Hanoi’s most famous lake, Ho Tay (West Lake), are more than 20 temples and pagodas ranked as national relic sites for their unique cultural and architectural values such as Tran Quoc, Kim Lien, Pho Linh, Tao Sach and Van Nien.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Property companies nationwide geared up their operations right after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, accompanied by high expectations of market recovery this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Using only grinding stones, needles, razors and smoke, a self-trained painter in Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam has created unique works.

 Hanoi benefits from FDI in tertiary education, attoos for women touches sexist nerve among men in Vietnam, Legal doubts over plan to seize and sell traffic violation vehicles, HCM City estimates annual bus ad revenue at VND170 billion

 Smart phone consumption highly grows in Vietnam, Payment caps proposed for foreign-investment housing projects, Four-star hotel to be built in Ly Son, 15 banks offer online tax payment service, Hoa Phat to break into agriculture

 A shortage of fresh water and severe saline intrusion has seriously affected agricultural cultivation in the Mekong Delta since mid-February.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Each day Vietnam has around 25 people killed on the road. Official statistics actually show that the first two months of the year saw 1,567 people dying in 4,115 traffic accidents.

VietNamNet Bridge – While travel firms are pleased about longer holidays, many manufacturing enterprises fear they will spoil their production plans.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Promoting State-owned bodies' autonomy in the field of health care and education and pursuing market mechanisms does not mean that the poor are not cared for,

 VietNamNet Bridge – People will be able to send authorities information about forest safety with their mobile devices in six provinces, under a project launched yesterday in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A garden of stone Buddhist prayers is being built on an area of 4,000m2 garden of the Phuoc Hau Pagoda in Vinh Long Province, southern Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Monument of the Vietnamese Heroic Mother, the largest one in the country and the region, is expected to be revealed on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of liberation of Quang Nam Province (24/3/2015).

 VietNamNet Bridge – In 2014, the year of the horse on the lunar calendar, many individuals left their mark on the domestic stock market.

 The Government has set that VN's targets on the business environment will reach and exceed the average level of nations in the ASEAN-6 in 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The power industry in Con Dao island district in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau, aims to produce 11 million kWh of electricity in 2015, a yearly rise of 6 percent, to maximise local tourism.

According to the latest Economic Insight Report, Vietnam is taking significant steps towards a commodity production economy thanks to the impressive growth of labor productivity, which was estimated to be 184% in the period from 1991 to 2012.