VietNamNet Bridge - By 2020 up to 10,980 hectares of land will be used to build 96 golf courses, 2,000 hectares more than the National Assembly-approved plan on handing over 46,800 hectares of land to sports and physical training establishments.

Tien Phong Newspaper's "Outstanding Faces of Vietnam" column talked with Nguyen Anh Tuan, an engineer and a journalist, who is best known as the first Editor in Chief of VietNamNet, the first online newspaper in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Listed companies’ production and business have resumed, but the predicted bank loan interest rate increases have caused big concerns.

VietNamNet Bridge - Con Dao residents, who take pride in their green island, are worried about the news that 40 hectares of forest may be cleared to make room for a road through a national park.

VietNamNet Bridge - Reports by local education and training departments all show a sharp decrease in the number of students registering to study at university.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam needs to shift from a low middle-income to higher-income nation and avoid the middle-income trap by reforming policy content, structure and organisation,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lang Biang or Lam Vien Mountain, 12 km from Da Lat City, is a popular tourist destination. Visiting the mountain, you will stroll along paths in lush pine forests and explore some magnificent nature.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has thanked China for responding to Vietnam’s call to release water from Jinghong hydropower plant in Yunnan province.

VietNamNet Bridge - The domestic real estate market has witnessed many joint venture projects and merger & acquisition (M&A) transactions in which the buyers are foreign businesses and investment funds.

Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung has voiced his support for Singaporean resort developer Banyan Tree Holdings to open a casino in Laguna Lang Co integrated resort complex in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twelve mixed media paintings by Ha Noi-based artist Nguyen The Hung that will be on show at the Craig Thomas Gallery in HCM City from March 25 to April 21 along with a fascinating story

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two-star Michelin chef Alain Dutournier was in Ha Noi recently to rejuvenate the menu at La Table du Chef – his first fine dining restaurant outside of France, showcasing the art of haute cuisine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Last week, a young girl in Dak Lak Province in Viet Nam’s Central Highlands had her leg amputated due to onset of caseation after she was treated in a hospital in the province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – From July 2017, Vietnam would no longer receive preferential loans in the form of official development assistance (ODA), a finance department official said at a conference yesterday.

 China’s Xinxing Corporation has won the bid for the supply of materials for the second phase of the Da River water pipeline.

 Painter Vu Kim Thu from Hanoi introduced Vietnam’s fine arts and her own work at a kickoff event for the Vietnam culture week in Pretoria, South Africa on March 22.

 The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines is working hard to increase security for flights to Europe, which will take place as scheduled, amid a series of bomb attacks in Brussels airport and metro station.

 No Vietnamese were injured or killed in a series of bomb attacks in Brussels on March 22, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to Belgium Vuong Thua Phong.

 The second defence strategy dialogue at the deputy ministerial level between Vietnam and Russia has helped reinforce bilateral trust in military and defence cooperation.

 President Truong Tan Sang has requested the Ministry of National Defence’s department of military supplies enhance its performance in serving the special task forces which are safeguarding the country’s sacred sovereignty.