Hanoi People Council Legal Department have proposed the removal of extensions at all apartments that block emergency exits.

500 Vallet scholarships worth VND25 billion (USD1.1 million) in total have just been granted to outstanding students from 58 high schools and six SOS Villages in the north.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Thursday asked the Government’s Economic Advisory Group to analyse internal and external difficulties to propose mechanisms and policies which will help the country to overcome economic obstacles.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomed San Francisco’s landmark verdict against Monsanto and called upon the company to pay compensation for Agent Orange victims in Vietnam, 

During their talks in Addis Ababa on August 23, President of Ethiopia Mulatu Teshome described the State visit to his country by President Tran Dai Quang as a particularly important political event.

The Vietnam Olympic team made history with its first entrance into the ASIAD quarter-finals after winning 1- 0 against Bahrain during the last stages of the 16-team knockout round for the men’s football of ASIAD 2018 in Indonesia on August 23.

 Forbes Vietnam held a ceremony on August 23 to honour the 40 most valuable brands in Vietnam in 2018.

 More than 3,000 Vietnamese people have been victims of human trafficking over the past five years and 500 still haven't been able to go home, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Phan Hoang Lan, Head of Planning and Finance of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation Department, talks to Hai quan newspaper 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Steamed rolls made of rice flour, locally known as banh cuon, are a popular dish across Vietnam. However, any travellers or guests visiting Cao Bang Province shouldn’t forget the local hot banh cuon,

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VietNamNet Bridge - The currencies of many countries have depreciated sharply against the dollar, thus affecting the competitiveness of Vietnam’s goods.

This year’s Vietnam Innovation Network forum received a special guest, Associate Prof Dr Tran Thi Nhu Hoa from the Vietnamese Students’ Association in South Korea (VSAK), a researcher and lecturer at Gachon University in South Korea.

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 22,000 new classrooms have been built in the last year, but Hanoi still lacks classrooms. Classes with 70 students still exist.

Binh Thuan province, which wants to focus on developing tourism instead of polluting the titanium mining industry, is seeking permission to exclude 20,000 hectares of land out of the national titanium reserve.

 President Tran Dai Quang arrived in Addis Ababa on August 23 afternoon, beginning a State-level visit to Ethiopia at the invitation of President Mulatu Teshome. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Institute of Haematology and Blood Tranfusion (NIHBT) is desperately in need of donors who have the blood type O.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Government is 100 per cent behind supporting ethnic minority groups.

 Up to 892 karaoke bars in Hanoi have been temporarily suspended due to failing fire safety regulations.

 A man in Hanoi was mauled and bitten to death while trying to stop two fighting dogs at his home.

 Thousands of households in Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces in the Central Highlands have left behind cultivated lands for various hydropower projects yet the compensation work still leaves much to be desired.

Around 300 artists and representatives from 12 ethnic groups will take part in various activities at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism on the outskirts of Hanoi between August 31 and September 30.

 According to statistics from the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV), as of May, State-owned banks’ combined equity was VNĐ252.472 trillion (US$10.83 billion), down 0.86 per cent.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will hold bids for the right to import 94,000 tonnes of sugar this year.