Deep in the rural district of Xenh Mua Ca, home to the Mong ethnic people in Lao Cai Province, lives a kind-hearted old man who plays a melodious panpipe that bewitches fellow villagers and passersby.

 Co-working spaces starting to pop up around Hanoi and HCMC wherever location permits.

 Clam farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tien Giang are finding innovative solutions to produce sustainable value chains in an aim to meet international standards.

 32 men’s football teams have registered to compete in the upcoming Asian Games (ASIAD 18) being held in Indonesia.

 Nguyen Trong Tuan and Pham Nguyen Quoc Trung, the selected 12 year old ambassadors from Vietnam, will be on their way to Russia on June 8th to participate in the 6th Gazprom Football for Friendship International Programme.

 At 3 am, when the sun is yet to stretch its rays above the horizon, many people have already gathered at Ben Do Fish Market to purchase deliciously fresh seafood.

 On May 30, Edelweiss, Switzerland's leading leisure airline, announced it will open a direct air route between HCM City and Zurich this November, serving two flights per week as part of the carrier’s plan to expand its flight network in Asia.

 The list of music stars performing at the 2nd ASEAN-Japan Music Festival 2018 has been announced online with Vietnamese singer, Dong Nhi, among the names who will light up the October event.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the UK Embassy in Vietnam held a bilateral meeting and announced the one-year review of implementing the Hanoi Statement on Illegal Wildlife Trade in Hanoi on May 31.

 Latest report from CBRE notes ongoing demand for co-working spaces in Hanoi and HCMC.

VietNamNet Bridge - Chinese brands some years ago attended a series of automobile exhibitions and ran large advertisement campaigns. But a short time later, they left Vietnam.

 Three Vietnamese students will compete in the 2018 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship in the US.

As more foreign-owned businesses go public in Vietnam, VIR takes a look at how overseas firms have fared on the domestic stock market over the past decade.

 A woman in the southern province of Binh Thuan has admitted burying her new-born child alive.

 The Vietnam Association for Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) have advised farmers to reduce their outputs to counter falling prices.  

 Vietnam-Japan relations are at their best point since the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties 45 years ago, President Tran Dai Quang told Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) Kazuo Shii.

 The fintech (financial technology) sector is facing difficulties of capital mobilisation shortage, inadequate legal framework and banks’ hesitance in co-operation, said Le Minh Hung, Governor of State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV).

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) disbursements rose 10 per cent year-on-year to US$6.75 billion in the first five months of 2018, Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) statistics reveal.

 Viet Nam’s total revenue from retail sales and services in the first five months of this year maintained a high growth since the beginning of the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, Tran Vinh Tuyen, has ordered district authorities to clear all encroachment of canals and drains by the end of this year.