VietNamNet Bridge - According to the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Van Binh, this is the highest level ever. Binh also pledged that interest rates will not exceed 1% from now until year’s end.

 Flooding caused by heavy rains killed at least 102 people in three provinces of northern Afghanistan, disaster officials said Friday.

 A private company declared that it has found what it believes is wreckage of a plane in the ocean, but leaders of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are dismissing the claim.

The Integrated Circuits Design Research & Education Center and the Research and Development Center of Saigon Hi-Tech Park have announced their successful design and production of pressure sensor chips.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On Monday, Hanoi police arrested four Chinese to clarify the behavior on charges of using computers and the Internet or digital devices to appropriate assets of others.

Photos of Ha Long Bay from the 19th century are now on display for the first time in Ha Long City in the northern province of Quang Ninh. The exhibition is a key event in the annual Carnival Ha Long, which started on April 25 and lasts until May 1.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On Monday, a baby boy in Ha Long was bitten by a bear and lost an arm.

 A motorbike race due to be held in Binh Duong Province had to be cancelled after the chaotic crowd of spectators blocked the track.

 By March 2014, Japan had 2,237 valid projects in Vietnam with a total registered capital of 35.38 billion USD, making it the largest of Vietnam’s foreign investors from 101 countries and territories around the world.

 Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – 1/10 tael of gold can be laminated into a sheet of 1m2. The sheet is then cut into small square pieces of 1cm long to inlay on worshipping items.

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite their industrious work and great efforts, Vietnamese farmers remain poor. Their farm produce, including specialties, are purchased at knock-down prices.

 The Supreme People's Court will declare the final sentence of former Chairman of the Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) Duong Chi Dung and his alleged accomplices on May 7. 

 Vietnam expects to qualify for the quarter-finals of the 2014 AFC Futsal Championship which will kick off in HCM City on April 30.

 The Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Le Thanh Hai hosted a reception on April 29 for the newly-accredited Archbishop Bui Van Doc.

 Moscow Duma delegation visits Ho Chi Minh City; CPV ups ties with Bangladeshi, Nepalese parties; Russian academician receives Friendship Order

 VietNamNet Bridge – Jogadanz will become the first Indonesian band to be resident at Hard Rock Cafe HCMC from May 1.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked ministries and sectors to intensify the disbursement of public investment, FDI and ODA sources and ensure the efficient use of the capital in order to boost national development.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In Saigon, along with Vietnamese sandwiches, many kinds of foreign sandwiches are available, to serve the different tastes of the people.

Da Lat city, dubbed as a “small Paris” or a “city of thousands of flowers”, in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong will be introduced to Thai people through their television channels in the coming time.