Around 800 local and international traffic experts and policymakers shared vision and discussed action programmes for safe, green and integrated transport at a meeting held yesterday in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 200 households in northern Ninh Binh Province have been in serious danger of landslides and flash floods for years, with resettlement funds yet to materialise.

 Here are foreign ministers visiting Vietnam in the first nine months of 2017.

 Vietnam’s swimming and athletic teams on September 19 pocketed four more gold medals at the 9th ASEAN Para Games held in Malaysia.

 French retailer Auchan has said 100 ready-made Vietnamese dishes will appear on the shelves of its stores in Vietnam next month.

 While the country’s unemployment in general declined slightly, the jobless rate among young people and those holding bachelor’s or master’s degrees surged by 44,000 people in the second quarter of 2017.

 South Korea will support Vietnamese travel firms to arrange incentive tours to attract more visitors from Vietnam.

 The State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV) will audit urban railway projects which are underway in Hanoi and HCMC.

 After Typhoon Doksuri swept through the north central region, local residents have rushed to buy building materials to repair and fortify their houses, causing supply shortage and price increase.

HCM City has many museums with French architectural styles dating back hundreds of years in addition to Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica and Central Post Office.

 As per the government’s new decree taking effect on November 1, 2017, it bans the consumption of alcohol by people under 18 at licensed venues.

 The Ministry of Health ordered all medical clinics nationwide and pharmaceutical companies to stop selling and using biological batch Human Albumin 20% because of suspect of mad cow.

 Yen Bai ready to host paragliding festival while Sapa will welcome marathon runners from September 22 to 24.

 Competitors in swimming, powerlifting and athletics brought home the first eight gold medals for Vietnam on the first official day of the ASEAN Para Games 2017 (September 18) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The fourth session of the 14th National Assembly will take place in 23 days, beginning from October 23 and concluding on November 22.

President Tran Dai Quang has granted the media an interview on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Vietnam’s accession to the UN. 

Though global trade growth is on the wane and protectionism walls are up in some areas, Vietnam is still in good position to overcome the trade slowdown, with potential to further boost manufacturing and room to grow the services sector.

 Over the course of the past 40 years, through many international fluctuations, Vietnam has become an active member of the UN and has always upheld its responsibility to carry out the noble missions of the UN.

A unique newly issued complication brings together the story and works of the first graduates of the Viet Nam College of Fine Arts, many of them well-known painters, reflecting the role of artists and fine arts

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local audiences can catch a glimpse of orchestral artists at an exhibition featuring photographs of conductors taken by photographer Nguyen Dinh Toan.

 Champion Dash 2017 promises to be an energetic outdoors sport event and a chance for participants to test their limits and receive valuable awards.

 In spite of receiving investments from foreign investors with powerful financial capability and strong brands, numerous coffee chains in Vietnam still either closed or scale down operations.

Many of the 127 wish-listed projects in the fields of infrastructure and industrial manufacturing on offer for more than three years, but have yet to captivate foreign investors due to poor feasibility and planning.

 Artist couple Anh Tu and Viet Dung will hold a concert featuring South Korean folk and modern music pieces at the Hanoi Opera House on September 30.

 The Azerbaijan Embassy has announced it will sponsor a concert September 29 at the National Academy of Music Hall in Hanoi featuring opera singer Azer Zeynalov and the music of Karabakh.