VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of domestic and international tourists went to Ly Son island district on April 29-30 to participate in the requiem for soldiers of the Hoang Sa flotilla.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) is gathering opinions on a draft decree on sports betting.

Over a period of ten years, more than 300 businesses responsible for polluting the environment have been taken to task, but just as fast upto 1,000 new ones have sprung up.

Only several stunted saplings have been seen on the newly opened roads in Hanoi. While the natural area of Hanoi has increased by four folds, the greenery area has not increased accordingly.

 Bich Giang villager Nguyen Hinh is waiting for his first batch of wood-ear fungi, hoping that it will provide a stable income for his family.

VietNamNet Bridge - The draft amendment of the 1992 Constitution will be discussed in the upcoming National Assembly session, in the two day session that will be televised live.

 VietNamNet Bridge – When my colleague asked me to meet a monk who had painted hundreds of paintings, I was dubious. I'm not a big fan of paintings – and I doubted how good the art of an untrained monk would be.

VietNamNet Bridge – There are still 240,000 cubic meters of soil and sludge contaminated with dioxin in Dong Nai Province’s Bien Hoa Airport area not buried, posing high risks to people’s health and the environment,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Policies should be made more liberal for foreign investors to get involved in debt trading, and thus bad debt settlement can be accelerated,

Vietnam’s exports to Japan have been supported not only by bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, but also by the new economic stimulus package launched by the Japanese government worth $1.4 trillion.

A lot of state agencies and enterprises, which want to utilize open source software, complain that they don’t know how they can choose “genuine products” in the market where most of the available products have not been tested in quality.

 VietNamNet Bridge – News that a baby in the US was cured of HIV give new hope for Vietnamese babies born with the virus, said Truong Huu Khanh,

Hanoi’s parents have been intensively preparing their children for the entrance exams to “star” primary schools.

Travel firms complain that cruise tourists don’t have the opportunities to spend money in Vietnam since there are very few points of sales serving the special travelers.

VietNamNet Bridge - After seven years of marriage, Mrs. Truc was alleged to "willful suicide" in her husband's house in the city of Busan. The victim’s family has asked the authorities to clarify the incident.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Phan Thu Ha has been hard at work all week preparing for the upcoming scientific conference on Viet Nam's Buddhism cultural heritage was held at the Viet Nam National Museum of History on April 14.

Mr. Wei Zi Shen, Trade Consul of the Chinese Consulate General in HCM City was upset about information on Vietnamese newspapers which said that Chinese businesses bought odd things in Vietnam, causing impacts to the environment.

 Vung Tau to host Int'l Seaports Festival; Geographical indications safeguard local trademarks; EU says will welcome Vietnam’s GI goods; Vietnam’s digital content market fetches US$1.3 billion

 VietNamNet Bridge – To Thi Lan Huong, 24, had always felt shy and afraid about gynaecological examinations.

 Vuong Thi Bich Viet of the central province of Quang Ninh has been using a wheelchair to get around for the last six years, following a motorbike accident that left her unable to walk.