Vietnam has made practical and concrete contributions to realising the mission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the head of the UN agency said.

Tank number 390 crashed through the gates of Independence Palace, the last stronghold of the Sai Gon regime at noon on April 30, 1975, heralding the end of the war.

VietNamNet Bridge  - On May 9, L’Espace Hanoi will hold a conference andmeeting with author Nuage Rose on the occasion of publishing her book Three Clouds in the Country of Lotus in Vietnamese.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is an attractive fintech market with estimated value of $35 billion. However, it has lagged behind in the last 10 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – French pianist Célimène Daudet will have a soloist night at the Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi on May 11th.

“Hinge – A Transition,” an event organized by 17 young people to depict life in Vietnam during the transition between the old and the new century will take place at Hanoi Rock City, Hanoi on May 7.

VietNamNet Bridge - Come to join a workshop with British composer Michael Price, who won an Emmy award for outstanding music composition for the BBC TV series Sherlock, in HCM City this May. 

 Microsoft officially launched Microsoft Teams - the chat-based workspace in Office 365, on Thursday in Viet Nam.

 Viet Nam’s TSV Investment JSC and Singapore’s wind energy developer The Blue Circle kicked off construction of Dam Nai wind project in Ninh Thuan Province on Friday.

 A year after it caused mass fish deaths by discharging untreated waste directly into the sea, an inspection has found Formosa having addressed 52 of 53 environmental violations.

 Following six months of construction, the central city inaugurated its first road tunnel at the intersection of Le Duan and Tran Phu streets on the west bank of the Han River yesterday.

 Viet Nam’s U20 squad will play one more friendly match ahead of the FIFA World Cup in South Korea next month.

 Vietnamese athletes secured two more gold medals at the Singapore Open Track & Field Championships on April 28.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though only around 10 Vietnamese footwear brands exist in the home market and each holds a modest 2 percent of market share, the products have begun conquering the local consumer market.

 The 7th Hue Trade Village Festival 2017 kicked off on April 28 in Hue city of central Thua Thien-Hue province, drawing 327 artisans from 40 craft villages and establishments across the country.

The consumer price index (CPI) in April remained unchanged from the previous month, but up 4.3 percent against the same period last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on April 29. 

 Vietnam’s two proposals have been approved by members of ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) and added to the AIPA Message at the meeting of AIPA leaders in Manila, the Philippines, on April 28. 

 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam spoke highly of cooperative ties between the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) over the past two decades during a reception in Hanoi.

 Vietnam attaches importance to developing ties with France and Europe, Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son told Emmanuel Lenain, Director for Asia and Oceania at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development.

VietNamNet Bridge - The attractiveness of the processed food industry in Vietnam, a market with 90 million consumers, can be seen in the high number of merger & acquisition (M&A) deals made in the last three years.