VietNamNet Bridge - Savy Helmet’s Assistant, a smart helmet which allows users to make and receive calls and read messages hands-free, can alert relatives in case of emergency.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese universities in the past have not been listed in prestigious international rankings, and this year is no exception. 

Cross-border e-commerce (CBE) is deleting traditional trade boundaries, and creating equal opportunities for distributors and retailers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Illegal logging continues even after the Prime Minister declared the closing of natural forests in June 2016.

The slow growth of the agricultural sector starting in 2015, shortcomings of small-scale production, poor quality and productivity amid fiercer global competition are threatening the sustainability of farming in Viet Nam

 Fire engulfs wood workshop, causing vast loss, HCM City helps Laos with library, museum activities, Vietnam, Morocco to exchange scientific information, Hanoi to apply national vaccination management system

 Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong and Vientiane Governor Sinlavong Khoutphaythoune have agreed to actively realise the jointly-signed cooperation agreements between the two cities.

  The HCM City People’s Committee has asked city departments and all 24 districts to prepare for natural disasters this year by completing maps about flooding hotspots and raising public awareness about disaster risks.

 A survey has found around 70 percent of medical staff took excessive precautionary measures while offering check-ups to HIV patients for fear of infection.

 Vietnam posted a gross domestic growth (GDP) rate of 5.1% in the first quarter of 2017, signalling a slowdown compared to the first-quarter rates of 6.12% in 2015 and 5.48% in 2016.

A violent early-morning head on crash today of a tour bus carrying 30 passengers and a semi-trailer on National Highway 1A in Thanh Hoa Province, has left dozens seriously injured.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has proposed Switzerland continue encouraging its businesses to invest in Vietnam.

 HCM City’s drug crime investigation sub-department (PC47) has uncovered a drug-trafficking ring, arresting two suspects and seizing heroin and ecstasy from them.

 Electric short-circuit was cited as the cause of the huge fire that engulfed a Taiwanese garment factory in southern Can Tho Province’s Tra Noc Industrial Zone.

 Local health insurance authorities of the central province of Nghe An have issued some 5,000 health insurance cards with wrong personal information, the provincial authority has said.

 LienVietPostBank has planned to deposit shares at the Vietnam Securities Depository and listing on the UPCoM.

 The central bank must push up banking restructuring and settlement of bad debt to ease pressure on rate hikes and keep rates stable this year, experts agreed at an online meeting yesterday on 2017 interest rate trends.

 Two hundred young athletes from 26 cities and provinces across the country gathered on Wednesay in northern Bac Ninh Province for this year’s national youth weightlifting tournament.

 U19 PVF claimed a final berth at the 2017 National U19 Championship with a convincing 2-0 win over U19 Viettel.

Vietnam National Shipping Lines or Vinalines wants to transfer its stake, valued at US$11.5 million, accounting for 88.6 per cent of chartered capital, from Vinalines Shipyard Company Limited.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications said that it has fined Viettel, VinaPhone and MobiFone VND$85 million (US$3,728) for using fake identity cards to register pre-paid phone subscriptions.

 Viet Nam and Japan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to boost tourism cooperation between the two countries.

The Ministry of Health will soon spell out what medicines and medical techniques should be used by ward- and commune-level health centres around the country to make the family medicine model more efficient

The Central Highlands provinces have good potential for growing macadamia, but more studies are needed to grow the nut, according to the Central Highlands Steering Committee.

The Supreme People’s Court yesterday looked into issues relating to the draft law revising the 2015 Penal Code, including the scope of criminal responsibility by those aged 14 to 16 and the criminal liability of adults in commerce.