VietNamNet Bridge – Director of Kong: Skull Island Jordan Vogt-Roberts recently took part in a book launch ceremony featuring music band 365 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Auto joint ventures formed by Vietnamese and Russian firms will be granted a number of incentives but will lose their licenses if they fail to meet local-content requirements.

 Many foreign passengers have had a hard time getting updates about train schedule changes and shuttle buses at Saigon Railway Station after the Ghenh Bridge in Dong Nai Province collapsed at noon on Sunday.

 An Australian man has tested positive for the Zika virus after a 10-day visit to Vietnam. The Ministry of Health has raised alert levels following evidence of the Zika virus in the country.

VietNamNet Bridge - Tan Hiep Village in Cam Tuyen Commune, Cam Lo District in Quang Tri Province is called the "bomb sawing village" because nearly 90% of the villagers used to earn their living searching for scrap metal left from wars.

 The Prime Minister has approved the largest-ever restoration project of Hue imperial citadel costing VND1, 274 billion (US$57 million), announced the People’s Committee of Thua Thien-Hue Province on March 21.

More than 500 industry leaders, Government officials, academics and business professionals will take part in a seminar on smart cities in the southern province of Binh Duong next week.

  Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the construction of Samsung Electronics Vietnam (SEV)’s $300 million research and development (R&D) centre in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai district.

 Vietnamese hot-shot Nguyen Tien Minh took out New Zealand’s Vincent Tong in just 16 minutes of play to advance to the third round of the SKYCITY New Zealand Open badminton tournament in Auckland City.

 Six Flags Entertainment has announced to open amusement and water parks in Vietnam.

 The first Mekong-Lancang Cooperation leaders’ meeting is a significant landmark in the cooperation among countries in the sub-Mekong region in general and MLC in particular.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s textile-garment industry is facing major challenges of low labor productivity and a serious shortage of textile and dyeing materials.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many scientists believe that reducing the area of wet rice cultivation to shift to aquaculture to utilize the available saltwater resources will be an opportunity for farmers in the Mekong Delta to get rich.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Photographer David Hagerman has introduced Da Lat City, especially its coffee on The New York Times. The US magazine has chosen the city as one of top 52 places to go in 2016.

 The nomination paper for Xoan singing to be recognised as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity must be submitted to UNESCO before March 31.

 Vietnam has raised the warning level for the Zika virus following the information about an Australian visitor who tested positive for Zika after returning from the Southeast Asian nation.

 The water discharged from China’s Jinghong Hydropower Station is expected to reach the Mekong Delta region in 19 days, according to Dong Van Tu, head of the Water Resource Directorate’s department of irrigation and dam safety.

 Drought and saltwater intrusion are predicted to continue damaging parts of the Mekong Delta despite China’s release of upriver water, said Chief Executive Officer at the Mekong River Commission Secretariat Pham Tuan Phan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At this time of year, visitors to Dien Bien Province in the nation’s northwest can admire the beauty of kachnar flowers.

 National Assembly deputies discussed in groups a draft working report of the legislature’s 13th tenure and its agencies for 2011-2016 during the ongoing 11th session in Hanoi on March 23.