VietNamNet Bridge – At 11 on April 21, the destroyer with guided missiles of the U.S. Navy USS Chung-Hoon nd salvage ship USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52,) carrying 380 sailors, landed at the Tien Sa port in the central city of Da Nang.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ilya Glazunov went to Vietnam in 1967, during the Vietnam War. The Russian painter recorded images of the Vietnamese militia, the One Pillar Pagoda, Ha Long Bay...

VietNamNet Bridge – Working on the field, Mr. May confronted a heard of wild elephants. He ran away, but could not escape from the furious animals.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Buddha statue made of precious sapphire of millions of years old -- sourced from Chau Thanh Commune of Quy Hop District, Nghe An Province has been recognized as a national record.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the afternoon of April 20, a bus carrying 36 Vietnamese tourists overturned in Laos. Three died and 28 other were injured in the accident.

Being in a coffee shop with her friends, Yen, 24, was called out to talk by a young guy, who then suddenly poured gasoline on her body and set on fire. The girl’s body was burned 95 percent.

Teachers and students go to school everyday just to struggle with the difficult math questions or complicated literature issues. Meanwhile, the knowledge is useless for them and unrealistic.

VietNamNet Bridge – With about 300 million textbooks published annually, textbooks account for up to 75 percent of the total books published in Vietnam, according to the Publication Department.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese keep indifferent to the tourism promotion programs launched by travel firms to lure customers for the two upcoming long holidays in April and May.

Enterprises believe the business climate will be difficult again this year and most of them are content to just survive rather than expand.

The Hanoi Industry and Trade Department is seeking the approval by the city’s authorities for its plan to encourage Hanoians to travel on bicycles to help ease the environment pollution.

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 Millionaire businessman Horacio Cartes of the opposition Colorado Party, a political neophyte, has won Paraguay's presidential election, electoral officials said.

 A strong earthquake that struck the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan this weekend has killed 186 people, sent nearly 8,200 to hospitals and created a dire dearth of drinking water,

 Tens of thousands of runners flowed through the British capital Sunday in the London Marathon, after a solemn 30-second silence at the start for the victims of the bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon barely a week ago.

Curiosity has been raised when Highlands Coffee still keeps quiet, while the US Starbucks has entered Vietnam with noisy media campaigns and Trung Nguyen has triggered a war of words with the US giant.

Co Loa Studios, nearly 20km north of Ha Noi's centre, were built in 1960 and quickly became the home of Vietnamese cinema, through both times of peace and war.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese will soon be officially taught at primary and secondary schools in California, USA.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Top Vietnamese cellist Ngo Hoang Quan talks with Luong Thu Huong about his love for music and his career, which has taken him from Japan to Macedonia.

The Vietnam Tourism Association has petitioned the Prime Minister for a mechanism to issue visas at a number of border gates and to continue exempting visas for visitors from seven key markets of the local tourism industry.