Hue Festival 2018 will take place from April 27 to May 2 with various culture, sport and art activities. 

Despite a continued downturn in the mining sector, nine-month figures show Vietnam’s economy is on a good growth trajectory.

Traditional water puppetry shows of the Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre will be performed at the upcoming the 21st Festival de L’Imaginaire in France

Sivali, An Tam and Hoan Hy are perfect places for those wishing to enjoy a variety of vegetarian dishes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ballerina Ngo Thuy To Nhu, who performed in her first solo show at the HCM City Opera House last week, has been on a three-decade journey to promote ballet in Viet Nam. 

Professor. Dr Nguyen Anh Tri, director of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT), is the founder of the live blood bank, one of big blood donors in Viet Nam. 

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Recently, a father of two secondary students in HCM City sent a letter to the Government asking for the dissolution of parents’ associations in schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Kon Tum City, the capital of Kon Tum Province bordering Laos and Cambodia, is recognised for a massive assembly of ethnic groups and their distinctive cultures.

Vietnam needs a national strategy to combine environmental protection with socio-economic development policies, Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Sinh, president of the Viet Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment said.

No one guards and protects Bach Ma National Park more zealously than the director of its service and environmental education centre who once hunted animals and cut down trees in the forest to earn a living. 

 There are nearly 700 purebred white horses in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son’s Khau Sao grassland, Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Love does not always fade with time. For Swiss writer Anemi Wick, the deep love story she has had for Viet Nam for eight years has only deepened over the years.  

 Vietnam is pursuing sustainable development in the wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with a focus laid on creating smart cities.

Vietnamese swimming enjoyed a fruitful 29th SEA Games, with young talents Nguyen Thi Anh Vien (21 years old), Nguyen Huy Hoang (17) and Nguyen Huu Kim Son (15) securing 10 gold medals and breaking five records.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The one-storey house of resident Trieu Duc Chinh of the Central Highlands Dak Lak Province is home to ten people: Chinh himself, his three wives, and their six children.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An unnamed stream runs sinuously around an orange garden owned by five households in Pha Village.

It is no longer easy to sell goods via Facebook as sales are not high enough for many shops to cover expenses of ads. 

 Lotte Card’s purchase of TechcomFinance from Techcombank is considered a move to expand in Vietnam and break into the US$26.55-billion consumer finance market, which has been showing signs of rapid development.

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Truong Tung, President of FPT University, talks to the Giao duc Viet Nam online publication about some proposed changes in the 2018 revision to the Law on Higher Education.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The second A-festival with various activities and events will take place in Hanoi and HCM City from October 11 to 16.

 The Diwali Fest 2017, the annual Indian light festival, is expected to attract more than 1,200 people in HCM City on October 14, according to the Indian Business Chamber in Vietnam (Incham).

 State employees and workers will likely be given seven days off during the forthcoming Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet holiday, from February 14 to 20, according to a proposal by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

With a recent tax reform proposal coming from the Ministry of Finance, HSBC Economist Mr. Noelan Arbis tells VET that raising taxes, particularly VAT, is not a bad idea on the surface but the problem lies with its potential effect on growth.

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