VietNamNet Bridge – A steady flow of electricity from new energy projects should ensure that Vietnam avoids the power shortages that often bedeviled business operations last year.

  Job placement services to be enhanced by 2015; Food Safety Action Month launched; Training programmes meet ASEAN standards; Residents without water supply

Preventative work has been carried out at Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Noi Bai International Airport, the main gateways to Vietnam for foreign visitors, to promptly respond to the bird flu virus of the H7N9 type.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The annual Ha Long Carnival will kick off on April 27 in the tourism hub of Ha Long in Quang Ninh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thua Thien-Hue Province’s Phu Loc District will host the international Laguna Triathlon on April 14.

VietNamNet Bridge – A four-year-old boy died from avian flu strain H5N1 in southern Dong Thap Province, authorities confirmed on April 9, saying that measures were being taken to prevent the virus from spreading further.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The popular artist, comedian and actor Van Hiep died of cancer yesterday at his home in Ha Noi. He was 71.

The multi-billion dollar projects were praised as the prideful achievements of local authorities in foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction. However, the projects have turned out to be the “pain in the neck.”

 No positive samples of the H7N9 virus have been found in pigs or farms in China so far, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Tax relief for business support is one of the main discussions at the opening meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on April 9.

Going to Tam Ngai Commune, Tra Vinh province, to ask about the family with "only one finger and only one toe,” the local people immediately took us to the family of Mr. Nguyen Van Cong.

Hanoi’s traffic police began imposing fines on motorcycle drivers who carry children of over six years old without a helmet on the morning of April 8. While the parents were busy with the fines, their kids were taken to school by police officers.

Surveys have found out that 70-80 percent of foreigners traveled to Vietnam after they heard about the trips to Vietnam from relatives or friends.

 A US college student stabbed 14 people, leaving two victims critically wounded, in a rampage that ended when he was wrestled to the ground and taken into custody, police said.

 EU legislators struck an anti-corruption deal that aims to force big mining companies to make public the payments they make to governments where they operate, officials said.

Over 10 tons of Australian dirty beef imports have penetrated the domestic market. Chinese grapes have been selling as Ninh Thuan brand grapes. Consumers have been told to become smarter, or they would buy dirty food.

  Leader of Belgian region visits to discuss relations; France Year in Vietnam kicks off; Party General Secretary eyes expanded co-operation with Brazilian communists

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a dimly lit and heavily decorated room of a cafe in downtown Ha Noi, Tran Manh Tien and his four friends share the same table and are all busy surfing the net on their mobile phones and iPads.

Representatives of the embassies of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea have vowed that their countries will take necessary measures to protect the lives and property of Vietnamese citizens living there.

 Serbia holds a national day of mourning Wednesday after a war veteran went on a killing spree, shooting dead 13 relatives and neighbours including his son, his mother and a two-year-old child, in his tiny village near Belgrade.