VietNamNet Bridge – The 17th Southern Fruit Festival 2013 will open tomorrow in HCM City, providing a link between farmers and processors as well as businesses.

A majority of National Assembly deputies were in agreement that some amendments should be made to the existing Law on Corporate Income during discussions held on May 29 in the capital as the NA's thirteenth session continued.

 VietNamNet Bridge - More than 100 Vietnamese singers have signed copyright protection contracts on YouTube.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has issued a decree detailing the implementation of a new regulation in the Labour Code that recognises the practice of labour dispatch.

VietNamNet Bridge – A United Nations report has highlighted that while fewer people are losing their lives due to natural disasters in Vietnam, floods, storms and other disasters are still wreaking havoc and causing huge economic losses.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Speaking to the media on the sideline of the NA session, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said the Government would take all measures to protect fishermen.

Many National Assembly (NA) deputies showed their concern about tensions in the East Sea at group discussions, while the government’s report to the NA does not discuss much about this content.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 60m of embankment of a VND700 billion ($35 million) project which is under construction collapsed into the river of Can Tho on the early morning of May 30.

The mammoth $4.5 billion steel project, which was considered the pride and hope of Quang Ngai province, has turned out to be a big disappointment as it has not taken any move forward so far.

 VietNamNet Bridge – International tourist arrivals have been falling over the past few months, but it is difficult to immediately halt this downward trend.

 VietNamNet Bridge - "Angel in the City" is the photo exhibition by Jean-Paul Lefret, which draws special attention of the public at the French Cultural Centre, 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi.

The unlicensed website in Vietnamese language introduced itself as having relations with Liberty Reverse is still providing money remittance services to domestic clients.

Despite the low CPI increases over the last several consecutive months, the government of Vietnam does not intend to hurriedly loosen the monetary policy for the fear about the high inflation.

 ASEAN nations review disasters; Fishermen need to be protected at sea; UK MPs visit Ho Chi Minh City

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies yesterday, May 30, called on more concrete measures from the Government to aid growth and struggling businesses amid slowing inflation.

 Japanese factories churned out a better-than-expected performance in April, but the upbeat data Friday was tempered as the export powerhouse remained mired in deflation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam hopes to have 60 scientific research organizations of regional and international stature by 2020.

Just within one year, Vietnamese competent agencies discovered 17 drug trafficking cases in which 53.16 kilos of drugs, 138 kilos of elephant tusks and 28.61 kilos of rhino horns were carried across the border gates.

A lot of university students cannot finish school and obtain the university degree, though they are very good at their majors, because they cannot meet the required standards in English.

VietNamNet Bridge – Binh Quoi Tourist Village under management of Saigontourist has launched seven new river tours for tourists to explore the increasingly attractive river destinations in HCMC.