Farmer turns down VND30m offers for giant chicken; Expressway crack repairs completed; Two men caught drug trafficking in Laos; Bodies retrieved after boat crash; Youth urge access to sex education; Don Sahong dam would block river

Traffic police officer faces investigation; VN, Japan work on living environments; US servicemen's remains repatriated; Measures taken to stop plague outbreak; Four detained following heroin bust; ADB aids forest management

Vietnam, US hold labour dialogue; Floods kill two children, inundate Hue's low-lying areas; Illegal teaching centers disbanded in HCMC; Vietnam takes active measures to prevent bubonic plague; Vietnam works to improve information security

VietNamNet Bridge – Smuggling had become a national disease and operations had become increasingly complex, Nguyen Trong Tin, deputy head of the Market Watch Department.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Smuggling from Cambodia to Vietnam occurs at border gates in southwestern provinces, with the common products being sugar, tobacco, petrol and cattle.

The practice of screening newborns' blood for congenital diseases is meeting fierce opposition from families, said Ta Quang Huy, director of the Ha Noi Department of Population and Family Planning.

 Drowned girl's body found after six months; One dead in Da Lat truck-bike collision; Woman found with 70kg of explosives; Wild animals rescued from Da Nang cafe; Bus fares go on a holiday hike

 Vietnam police arrest 11 in cybercrime raid; Russia, Vietnam to explore space for peaceful purposes; Out-of-season rains help Central Highlands; Deputy PM affirms determination to combat smuggling

 VietNamNet Bridge – One pilot and four attendants of Vietnam Airlines will have to go to Japan to serve in the investigation of stolen goods transportation.

 Four dead after eating poison mushrooms; Two die in Ha Giang fire; Northern province battles cross-border smuggling; Ten injured in Muong Xen car accident; Vietnam hosts conference on illegal wildlife trade

 VietNamNet Bridge – In order to control the quantity of goods that flight attendants take home, the national air carrier of Vietnam – Vietnam Airlines has applied new rules on luggage.

 Market watchdogs ask for city help to fight smuggling; Non-tariff barriers high in trade with EU; ACV prepares for airport expansion; Vietnam should have trustees in bankruptcy; Housing stimulus package criticised for slow disbursal

 A Vietnamese man was caught on March 10 at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport while attempting to smuggle five African rhino horns weighing a total of 13.1 kg into the country.

 Firm accused of tax evasion, titanium smuggling; MoF increases petrol, diesel prices; Work starts on $66.6m wood production line; Consumer confidence marks two-year high: market survey; EU tops list of Viet Nam trade partners

 Cold spell continues to chill northern region; Illegal fireworks seized in Ha Noi; Firm fined for storing smuggled sugar; Construction of new Tropical Disease Hospital begins; HCM City opens career counselling service for students

While the General Department of Customs reported sharp fall in the rice export turnover in January-September of 2013, the Vietnam Food Association said Vietnam has no more rice to export.

 Customs officials in the northern port city of Hai Phong have seized about 2.4 tonnes of elephant tusks smuggled from Malaysia.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen The Dung, chairman and CEO of the State-owned Dong Thap Oil and Gas Trading Company (Petimex) was arrested on August 27 for investigation of smuggling.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Being declared as LX125 scooters and computer screens, but when the customs checked the containers, there were hundreds of heavyweight motorcycles, many of which are up to 1,800 cc, which are banned from import.

 VietNamNet Bridge - According to the Ministry of Public Security, this volume of sturgeon was smuggled from China to Hanoi and then legalized by certificates of origin from local farms.