Few people know that harmonica player Tong Son who has played this musical instrument across the country for over 50 years is leading a difficult life at his home in HCMC.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of foreigners visiting Viet Nam in August reached 899,700 arrivals, an increase of 34.4 per cent over the same period last year,

 Mel Gibson called his relationship with Hollywood "survival" as he prepared for the Venice film festival premiere of a war drama that marks his directorial comeback after a turbulent decade in his personal life.

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts believe that HCM City will make a profitable investment by pumping VND1 trillion into startups, because the benefits in the future will be even higher.

A Taj Mahal-style building in downtown Saigon allures visitors for its original architecture as well as entertainment services inside.

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Former chief government inspector Tran Van Truyen was found to own huge assets shortly after he retired. Most of the assets were then disclosed to have been made illegally and recovered by the government. 

Hue’s authorities are working on a project to build more museums and art centres on Le Loi Street for tourists. The street is intended to eventually have a dense network of museums in the future.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Malaysia-based cruise liner Dream Cruises is set to operate a new vessel capable of carrying 3,500 passengers to Viet Nam from November, according to the HCM City-based travel firm Viet Excursions.

While holding parties in Halong Bay is an ever more popular trend, it has faced opposition from locals who fear that tourism will ruin the caves.

 Nearly 23 million pupils nationwide attended the opening ceremony for the 2016-2017 academic year on September 5.

 The Prime Minister has decided to approve the national target program on sustainable poverty reduction for the period 2016-2020.

 19/12 Street in Hoan Kiem district will become Hanoi’s first book street in December.

 The increase in the number of workers at foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) this year as at August 1 was the highest in the country, according to figures from the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy PM Trinh Dình Dung has urged relevant agencies to expand HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport by using a section of military land to raise its capacity to 40-50 million passengers a year by 2025.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “Daddy, bring me a gold medal, ok?” Le Tuan Anh always tells his father, Le Van Cong, whenever he calls him during his training courses or competitions far from home.

Hotels from three to five stars in Vietnam will be inspected by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

 Martial arts expert and actor Jackie Chan will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday.

Telecommunications giant VNPT targets to conduct its equitization in the 2016-2020 period, Chairman Tran Manh Hung told Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a recent meeting.

Most of the criteria Vietnam has set to become an industrialized country by 2020 appears to be unattainable. 

 Illegal hunting in Democratic Republic of Congo has wiped out 70 percent of Eastern gorillas in the past two decades and pushed the world's biggest primate close to extinction,

Attempts by Ba Ria-Vung Tau to salvage the long delayed $4.1 billion Saigon Atlantic Hotel invested by Winvest LLC Group from the US hit insurmountable obstacles as the province’s mandate seems to fall short to grant the investor’s requests.

 The Ministry of Finance may use a “book building method” in selling the State’s holdings in State-owned enterprises (SOEs), Vu Bang, Chairman of the State Securities Commission, told local media.

Vietnam’s (B1 stable) credit profile is supported by its robust economic growth and diversified economy, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

VietNamNet Bridge - Lao Cai province’s chair Dang Xuan Phong said the Red River’s water from the other side of the border with China is becoming more seriously polluted.