VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the central province of Binh Dinh are struggling to find water to irrigate their rice paddies due to severe drought.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese people read 0.8 books a year on average, said an official of the Ministry of Culture - Sports - Tourism at a press conference last week. The figure stunned the press.

On the morning of April15, people went to the People’s Committee of Ward 9 in Tuy Hoa city,  Phu Yen province for document authentication, but they were surprised to see the announcement on the office gate "The office is closed for a meeting."

VietNamNet Bridge – A new type of food and mouth disease (FMD) virus has emerged in the provinces of Ha Tinh and Thanh Hoa, in central Vietnam, but there is no suitable vaccine for it.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Vice Chairman Le Minh Tri has been appointed as the vice chief of the Central Committee for Internal Affairs.

A Vietnamese worker was reported to have died in Angola on April 12. This is the third Vietnamese worker who died in this country in the last few months. All of them came from the central province of Nghe An.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s famous fashion designer - Duc Hung, will bring his ao dai to the U.S. to attend a painting exhibition and Vietnamese ao dai show in New York on April 24.

The current economic difficulties have brought the golden opportunities to the big tycoons to crush their quarries.

VietNamNet Bridge - Through collecting people’s opinions on the draft amendment to the Constitution 1992, there is the proposal of resuming the country’s name as Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

In 2013, the financial campaigning board of the Fund for HIV/AIDS Patients of Hanoi will call for 10-20 individuals, international organizations, 500-700 enterprises and philanthropists to support HIV carriers in the city.

Members of For Bright Future, a group of HIV carriers in Hanoi, call Ong Van Tung, 39 and his wife L as “couple of opposite extremes” since Tung carries the deadly virus, his wife does not. Fortunately, their son was born healthy.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of salaganes died last week in Phan Rang City, Ninh Thuan province. The information made hundreds of salagane-breeding households in HCM City anxious.

"Whether we are defected or perfect, we are burning our best," the impressive answer in the interview round and the emotional presentation on her mother helped Nguyen Thi Anh Ngoc win the first prize of the beauty contest for the disabled.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Animal Health Agency of Region VI has proposed to kill the whole flock of salanganes of Thanh Binh salangane house in Phan Rang city after samples of dead birds tested positive for the type A H5N1 influenza virus.

The National Electoral Council (CNE) on Monday proclaimed Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela's new president.

VietNamNet Bridge - This decision was made after Ms. Tran Hong Ly, who is said to have an "intimate relationship" with Chairman Tran Khieu, was expelled from the Party.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Top lawmakers have agreed that this year they would speed up the issuance of documents guiding the implementation of laws and decrees.

 Distance running greats Haile Gebrselassie and Paula Radcliffe were among those stunned by the twin blasts that left at least two dead and dozens injured at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The People's Committee of the central province of Quang Nam held a ceremony yesterday, April 15, to posthumously honour late Acting President Huynh Thuc Khang with the Gold Star Order.

 Consultations with Iran result in praise for bilateral developments; Crime fight needs intensifying; President vows better policies for fishermen; Party delegation visits Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka