VietNamNet Bridge – The reality show Iron Chef on Wednesday marked its return for the second season with the announcement of a battle between Vietnamese and Thai Iron Chefs in District 1.

VietNamNet Bridge – This afternoon, April 5, the Hai Phong People's Court sentenced Doan Van Vuon and his younger brother Doan Van Quy 5 years in prison each for murder.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Tien Minh of Vietnam, seeded two, struggled to beat Guo Kai 21-19, 22-20 in the third round of the Yonex Australian Badminton Open on April 4 in Sydney.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Truong Son National Martyrs' Cemetery in the central province of Quang Tri will hold its first art exhibition this weekend.

Vietnamese workers in South Korea are quite calm before the information of a possible war between North Korea and South Korea. However, the Embassy of Vietnam in the RoK is ready to take them home in emergency case.

VietNamNet Bridge - To make illicit profits, the owner of the Gucci - Milano shop in Ho Chi Minh City directed his staff to turn Gucci brand products into Chinese goods to evade import tax.

Chinese businessmen have been collecting the roots of pepper plants in Chu Se district of Gia Lai province, the biggest pepper growing area in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese chess player Vo Thi Kim Phung knocked down the second seed of the U20 Asia Chess Championship, whose Elo is 2250, to rank first in the sixth round.

VietNamNet Bridge - Meritorious Artist Ho Kieng died at 4.15pm on April 3 at Nguyen Trai Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, at the age of 87.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of April 4, Mr. Dinh Nhan - Chair of Minh Hoa district, Quang Binh province, confirmed the death of an adult elephant in the forest of the Minh Hoa forest farm.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the near future, traffic rule violators may pay fines at traffic police stations, via ATMs, not having to go to the treasury or banks any more.

 U.S. Federal Reserve vice chair Janet Yellen on Thursday signaled that the central bank's monetary easing policies will continue until the U.S. economy substantially improves.

At 14.30 on April 4, the border guard forces of Quang Tri province in coordination with the police of Xavanakhet province of Laos arrested the third suspect in the massacre of five Vietnamese woodmen on March 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese goalkeeper Dang Thi Kieu Trinh was voted the AFF's Best Female Player of the Year at the ASEAN Football Federation Awards on Wednesday in Malaysia.

The police forces on April 3 shot to death one and arrested four drug traffickers in the northern province of Hoa Binh, seizing over 7kg of heroin, 1,000 pills of synthetic drugs and 1kg of ectasy.

The price for a bowl of "pho" at present remains the same with that in 2011. This is a rare thing because for many years, the growth rate of the essential food was relatively stable. However, it was the stability of the price growth, not the price.

VietNamNet Bridge – The central bank's move last week to cut the dong interest rate cap from 1-month to 12-month terms by 0.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent per annum has caused economists to wonder

 Rahul Gandhi, often described as India's prime minister-in-waiting, said in a keynote address designed to raise his profile that the poor must see the benefits of economic growth.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Land erosion in the Mekong Delta provinces, where rivers crisscross, is displacing thousands of families and damaging dozens of houses.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thua Thien-Hue authorities last night re-enacted a ceremony that served as a national celebration under the Nguyen dynasty in the former royal capital city of Hue.