For a long time, Kim Son District in Ninh Binh Province has been well known for growing sedge plants and the craft of making sedge handicraft products which are exported to over 20 countries.

VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities of Dong Thap province has refused to host the Rice Festival 2014, reasoning of budget difficulty and the Party’s instruction on practice thrift in organizing festivals.

Having been blighted in the past by pollution, disease-ridden water and other health hazards, poor households in Ha Tinh are being given a new lease of life thanks to a pioneering eco-village project.

Photographer An Le, 24, a Vietnamese native who has been living in the USA since he was 15, pipped over 500 contestants worldwide to become the winner of the New Exposure Contest.

Every morning, people living around the lake of Nam Dong in Hanoi hear a free symphony of hundreds of birds. Strangers are surprised, thinking that they lost in a bird park in the capital city.

Although the Vietnam Food Association has repeatedly regulated floor prices for export rice to prevent a price slide and protect the domestic market, this policy is ignored by many food traders.

In October this year, the Ministry of Industry and Trade will have to submit a report on the hydropower master plan, naming the projects subject to cancellation, those forced to make adjustments and those allowed to continue.

Being inferior to foreign manufacturers, domestic enterprises have been trying every measure which can bring money to them.

Bui Chi Thanh has been credited with demonstrating and defining the origin and history of dancing art of the Muong ethnic group. He has also made contribution to reviving a valuable cultural heritage that once was at risk of falling into oblivion.

Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Lang is one of seven women who was granted the Vietnamese Women’s Award in 2011 for her outstanding achievements in producing dozens of hybrid rice varieties that are salt resistant and have high output and good quality.

VietNamNet Bridge – A trees yielding five kinds of fruits or a banana tree with six bunches are exotic trees that are generated by human or nature.

Vietnamese martial arts have a system of performances with different weapon. Apart from  common weapons, each martial arts school uses a distinctive one, such as the two carp weapon of Hong Quyen Chu Gia Martial Arts.

Any person recalling the Paris peace negotiations would be hard-pressed to forget the image of a petite woman. She is Nguyen Thi Binh, known worldwide as "Madame Binh".

VietNamNet Bridge – At the age of 31, Mr. Nguyen Minh Sang became the mayor of a city of the state of Victoria. Sang is the first Asian who becomes a mayor in Australia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of tourism and wind power projects in Binh Thuan Province are now frozen because beneath the areas for development of these projects are titanium awaiting extraction.

Looking back to very difficult days of the past, middle aged Vietnamese people recall how important it was to wear a crisp ironed shirt on Tet Lunar New Year.

An opportunity to study abroad is a dream for many, but only a few manage to take advantage of this chance effectively.

 VietNamNet Bridge – I have been settled in Ha Noi for two months now and my adaptation is progressing well. Every day though I live a new adventure filled with a lack of linguistic understanding

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite unfavourable weather, fishermen nationwide caught 202,500 tonnes of fish in January, up 3.8 per cent against the same period last year,

A man in Gia Lai Province has voluntarily taken on the job of caring for dozens of people with mental disabilities in his home.