Museums in Vietnam have become a hot topic after the local media reported about plans for the VND11 trillion National History Museum project in Hanoi and the HCM City Museum project in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rooftop apartments with modern amenities and luxury living standards are commonly the most-sought after properties on the real estate market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Co Tu ethnic minority's clan homes are seeing the dark side of modernisation: the destruction of tradition. But the district is working to change that. Nguyen Thanh-Trung Hieu reports.

The message at the Ministry of Transport's meeting yesterday in Da Nang was clear - ministries, agencies, investors and city authorities need to speed up work on the international airport construction and the railway station demolition.

Railway sector targets modernity, Financial Times reports on Vietnam-EU free trade deal, Concerted efforts needed to optimise ODA use, Tra fish exports to China on sharp rise, HCM City property rebounds

 Export turnover in the textile and garment sector continued to grow at double-digit figures in the first half of this year, by 10.26 per cent compared to the same period of 2014 and reaching $12.18 billion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The European Union (EU) will remove 85.6% of tariff lines for Vietnam’s goods exports immediately after a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) between the two sides comes into force.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The new national high school examination this year was a failure, forcing students to gamble on their futures, a veteran educator said.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hoan Kiem District has proposed to the Hanoi authorities to pave 11 walking streets in the Old Quarter with flagstones instead of cement.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has been asked by electors from Long An province to reconsider or review the opening of a number of commercial banks there several years ago. A high bad debt ratio in recent years was the reason behind the request.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In Hoa Binh Province, tourists can visit the first money-printing plant in Vietnam, named Chi Ne, where they can see the first banknotes issued by the Vietnam Democratic Republic in 1946.

 Most workers struggle with cost of living, Ninh Binh police seize gun parts, gunpowder, Govt to pay for faulty vaccines, More than 1,000 poultry birds infected with A/H5N1, HIV/AIDS patients slow to buy health insurance

 VietNamNet Bridge - Coal is a fuel but also a raw material used to produce beautiful artworks.

VietNamNet Bridge – While trade ministers struggle to hash out a final agreement on the ground-breaking Trans-Pacific Partnership, Vietnamese companies are largely in the dark about the pact's potential benefits and drawbacks,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vu Xuan Trung, 11th grader of Thai Binh Province, is one of the two gold medalists at the 56th International Mathematics Olympiad recently held in Thailand.

As the pollution from the Phuoc Hiep waste treatment complex in Ho Chi Minh City’s Cu Chi Commune continues to affect the environment of the surrounding areas, businesses have urged the local authorities to focus investment capital

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first international Vietnamese traditional martial arts championships kicked off on Sunday in the capital.

Many more European companies will come to do business in VN to capitalize on opportunities from a free trade agreement between the EU and Vietnam, according to the outgoing ambassador and head of the EU Delegation to Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was 10am at the HCM City Oncology Hospital in Binh Thanh District. Tran Van Ly, a 53 year-old who had travelled from nearby Binh Duong Province, was waiting for his turn to take a hematology test.

 Concert protests rhino horn use, Award-winning cartoon to be screened, Mekong Delta art show to celebrate National Day, Adult colouring books all the rage, Heritage magazine unveils awards, JW Marriott Hanoi hosts US Food Festival

 VietNamNet Bridge – First introduced in 2001 in Africa, vovinam, a world-famous Vietnamese martial arts, has quickly become popular and is now being practiced by more than 22,000 people in Algeria.

The Vietnamese finance market has been shaken by a number of events in recent days. 

 A sculpture camp celebrating 40 years of Ho Chi Minh City’s development and integration is scheduled to open in the southern hub on November 15. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Labour Export Association has called on the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs to step up oversight and inspection of companies that hire and train workers for overseas jobs to sustain quality.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite being one of the most conservative foreign investors in Vietnam, Japan is currently emerging as a major partner through a series of mergers and acquisitions (M&A).