VietNamNet Bridge – Young entrepreneurs have come up with a creative way to have visitors to Hoi An City take part of its famous nipa palm forest home as souvenirs.

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VietNamNet Bridge - A lot of shops which sell products at exorbitant prices to Chinese tourists under "zero-dong tours" have been forced to shut down. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training is setting stricter requirements when granting professorship titles.

Nguyen Lan, Ha Noi’s former Chief Architect, speaks to the newspaper Kinh te & Do thi (Economic and Urban Affairs) about some of the measures needed to keep the capital clean and green.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the anvil for about a decade, Culture Ministry gets serious about transforming the Ha Noi Opera House and its environs, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Famous comedian Hoai Linh has reduced his audience to tears in the newly released film Da Co Hoai Lang (Night Drumbeats Cause Longing for Absent Husband) directed by Nguyen Quang Dung. 

Urban specialists have been suggesting since 2015 that Ha Noi number its streets, rather than name them. Currently, most streets are named after people who contributed to the cause of national development.

 Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung held a dialogue with local residents in Dong Tam commune in the city’s My Duc district on April 22.

The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat met on April 18 and 21 to consider disciplinary measures against certain Party organisations and Party members at the proposal of the Central Inspection Commission. 

Vietnam and India should bolster investment ties in areas of India’s strength and Vietnam’s demand, while minimizing and generally removing trade obstacles, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said.

Vietnam will continue to be an active and responsible member of the international community and the UN and engage more in the UN’s peacekeeping operations, said President Tran Dai Quang.

 Eleven innovative tourism startups from Viet Nam have qualified for the Mekong Innovative Startup Tourism (MIST) Startup Accelerator programme.

 Street dance fans will have a chance to see impressive moves by dancers from Asian countries at the Viet Nam Youth Theatre on April 22 and 23.

 Viet Nam’s U16 and U19 teams are in the No 1 seed group of the East zone to prepare for the draws of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) tournaments, the AFC has announed.

 Exports will be one of the key factors to help Vietnam achieve an economic growth rate of 6.7 percent in 2017, but the sector still faces many challenges, according to the Market Intello research company.

 The real estate market will welcome many new launches in the second quarter of 2017 and sales volumes will be higher than the last quarter, according to the Vietnam National Real Estate Association.

Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung has ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to urgently review and issue a list of industries that pose a high risk of polluting the environment.

The 6th Quang Nam Heritage Festival to be held in early June will be an opportunity for the central province to solicit investment for tourism development. 

With their limitations in terms of capital, management, technologies and brand building, Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need support to stay afloat amid the country’s global integration, 

The capital city’s prosecuting agency, Ha Noi People’s Procuracy, today anulled a decision taken the local police on April 15 relating to the arrest of a senior resident over a land-reclaimation protest.

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The government has released a series of incentives and policies in recent years to boost Vietnam’s support industry (SI), but improvements are yet to be fully seen.

 Foreign investment funds have expressed renewed interested in Vietnamese financial technology startups, despite a series of challenging setbacks that occurred in previous e-commerce deals.

Touropia, a tourism website, has listed 10 best luxury resorts in Vietnam, as rated by visitors, picked from an ever-growing selection of boutique hotel stays, luxury hotel hideaways and romantic retreats.