Viet Nam National Opera and Ballet will have shows to kick off its new season on March 26 and 27 at the Ha Noi Opera House. Entitled Around the World, the show will include music pieces: extracts from ballets and operas

 VietNamNet Bridge – A major project on developing an arts industry in HCM City by 2020, with a vision to 2030, has been submitted to the city People’s Committee.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hue is making its first attempt to tidy the look of urban places busy with tourists in an attempt to reduce complaints about the messy environment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Tinh grew up with the scent of Vietnamese fish sauce (nước mắm).

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 33,000ha of the U Minh Ha National Forest in the southern province of Ca Mau is at risk of fire.

The Viet Nam Golf Association and the Els Performance Golf Academy — the first international golf academy in Vietnam — on Monday signed a co-operation agreement to promote golf among young people in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty men’s and women’s teams will take part in the National Volleyball Championships which are scheduled to start on April 3.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi FC drew and Becamex Binh Duong lost in the second round of group stage matches in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three generations of the “Angelic Family” from Canada are in Vietnam to spread the values of emotional intelligence and symbolic language.

The Viet Nam National Documentary and Scientific Film Studio in co-operation with Wallonie Bruxelles will be screening films and displaying posters to honour writer Georges Simenon to mark the 30th anniversary of his death.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a new bridge to replace the downgraded Song Hoa floating bridge connecting Hai Phong City with Thai Binh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The diplomatic sectors of Vietnam and Azerbaijan discussed ways to increase their coordination at a conference in Hanoi yesterday.

Text book selection was on the agenda as the draft revision of the Law on Education was discussed by deputies at the ongoing 32nd session of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rediscovering Vietnamese cuisine in a converted French villa proves to be a stimulating and tasty experience. Nguyen My Ha reports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An accident between a car and a motorbike that left one person dead in the northern province of Lao Cai on March 1 has drawn public attention in recent days.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vu Van Vien, Director of Hanoi’s transport department, told Dân trí newspaper that the drastic barring of motorbikes is not meant to cause difficulties for the people.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham The Anh, from the National Economics University’s Faculty of Economics, speaks to Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper about the role of the unobserved economy in the national economy.

The Vietnamese dong would be steady next months, buoyed by positive foreign inflow and reasonable gap between interest rates of the dong and the US dollar as well as the stability of the Chinese renminbi, 

VietNamNet Bridge – During my recent trip to the northwestern province of Dien Bien, I was blown away by the unique flavour of mac khen (the Thai ethnic group’s wild pepper) in dishes such as ga nuong (grilled chicken).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police on Monday arrested a 26-year-old man in HCM City on suspicion of murdering four people, including his own parents and grandmother, likely under the influence of drugs.