According to economic experts, the current recession though not being recognized by any official document, comes to people everywhere. Some even said that we are falling into the "euphoric effect," even in the policymaking process.

Quang Ninh province has been famous for the Ha Long Bay, one of the world’s natural wonders. However, over the last two years, the thing that attracts tourists to the locality is the spiritual tourism.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Biggest rivers of Da Do, Gia and Re of northern port Hai Phong City, as the city's main water source, are getting seriously polluted.

Located in District 8, HCM City, the walls of An Phu temple are decorated with 30 tons of ceramic pieces from outside to inside. The temple also has two candles that are recognized as the biggest and heaviest in Vietnam.

Chua village in Son Cong Commune, Ung Hoa District on the outskirts of Hanoi is known as a poem village because local people have a great passion for poems and reciting poems with many of them being poets and writers.

Quang Xuong district authorities have decided to dismiss Mr. Nguyen Gia Khang, Chairman of Quang Phong Commune for having illicit relationships with the commune government’s cashier.

Seeing several foreigners walking on the street, a young man stopped his motorcycle to drop the woman who sat behind him. The woman approached the foreign visitors to show them her card and asked them to donate money for charity.

VietNamNet Bridge – The demand for essential and consumer goods has slowed as local buyers are trying to make ends meet with their meager incomes, and this is the main reason for the low growth

VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon Transportation Mechanical Corporation (Samco) last week introduced a bus running on compressed natural gas (CNG) and other newly-manufactured buses.

Nha Trang never loses its appeal to tourists with its immense beaches and beautiful islands.

VietNamNet Bridge – A regulation in an amended draft of the land law requires stricter control over areas used for rice cultivation, and stirred up some discussion during a recent session at the National Assembly.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Phan Thien Phuc, a boy just thirteen years of age, has received national acclaim after spending all of his saving money to buy one tonne of rice for the charity kitchen at the Da Nang Cancer Hospital.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As a foreigner coming to Hanoi for the first time, I have spent a day locating a bicycle shop and haggling about the price, but found it not easy to get one.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vu Duc Hieu won the Phan Chau Trinh Award last month for his contributions to promoting preservation of Muong culture in Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's airfreight sector has great development potential, but it needs to beef up its ability to compete against foreign rivals in the domestic market, experts said at a conference in HCM City last week.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Central Highlands is the majestic highland with vast mountains and forests. It is also famous for delicious cuisines with special flavors.

VietNamNet Bridge – Experts deemed it necessary to set up a national gold exchange to deal with the widening gap between local and global gold prices - and the preference for keeping gold and using the precious metal as payment.

Given that “the majority of Vietnamese enterprises fail to meet the official trade relations,” Mr. Wei Zi Shen, Trade Consul of the Chinese Consulate General in HCM City assured that border  trade is "the policy of China to help Vietnam".

VietNamNet Bridge – American singer Diane Witherspoon will bring classic jazz to life at Le Club with The Rhythm of Gentle Jazz every Tuesday to Sunday at 8:45 p.m. from May 1 until the end of July.

A pioneering method of reconstructive surgery by Vietnamese doctors has been recognised by a prestigious German foundation and one, Dr. Nguyen The Hoang, has won plaudits for his outstanding achievements in the field.