Sex education: Breaking the gap between teachers-students

 VietNamNet Bridge – Straightforward, honest sharing between teachers and students. That, say experts, is the most effective means of helping students confidently approach sex and reproductive health in the right way.

Metran – a successful Vietnamese enterprise in Japan

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Ngoc Phuc—the founder of the small to medium-sized Japan-based enterprise Metran that specialises in High Frequency Oscillation (HFO) - says his greatest happiness comes from returning home and contributing to Vietnam.

A journey back to Truc Lam Buddhism

 VietNamNet Bridge – What is Vietnamese Buddhism, and where did it come from? Hong Thuy delves into the origins of Truc Lam, the Zen Buddhist sect founded by King Tran Nhan Tong in the 13th century, to reveal the answers.

Urban agriculture grows amid pesticide fears

 VietNamNet Bridge – With many urbanites worrying about the use of growth chemicals in vegetables, services providing small hanging gardens and care for fresh vegetables grown at home are prospering.

Vietnam’s catfish exports to the US still “safe” this year

It is obvious that the 2014 US Farm Bill will tremendously hurt Vietnamese catfish exports. However, the negative impacts would be made no sooner than early 2015.

Reforms sought in public science, technology area

 VietNamNet Bridge – Non-commercial State-run institutions in the scientific and technology sector have been asked to speed reforms to become more sustainable in both organisation and financial activities.

President Ho Chi Minh’s masterpieces honored as national treasures

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nine masterpieces, including five ones written by late President Ho Chi Minh, joined the list of 77 national treasures.

Hardy fisherman challenges the River God

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many South-east Asians, including Vietnamese, are hesitant about trying to rescue people from drowning in case their efforts displease the River God.

Uni students kept in dark on courses

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Quang Huy, a 12th grade student at Ha Noi's Cau Giay High School, will take the university entrance exam this summer.

Vietnam's oldest billiards player hangs up his boots

 VietNamNet Bridge – The man bowed low to kiss the billiard table as thousands of spectators applauded at the Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex.

Vietnam Women’s Museum, an exciting place in Hanoi

"Top destination", "A museum to see", "This is also interesting for men", "An honest museum".... These are comments foreign visitors made after visiting the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi.

Power industry faces competition test in 2016

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) must finalise all conditions that will help develop the competitive power generation market (VCGM) and get it trial-ready by 2016.

Vietnam’s sci-tech enjoying new opportunities: Minister

 VietNamNet Bridge – From 2014, the revised Law on Science and Technology is effective with many new changes and is expected to create new development for Vietnam’s science and technology.

Declaration signed on illegal wildlife trade

 Governments from around the world have vowed to take action on the illegal trade in wildlife.

Hanoi’s peach village prepares for 2015 New Year

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Lunar New Year 2014 or Tet holiday has just ended, but gardeners in Nhat Tan flower village in Hanoi have begun to prepare for the next Tet holiday.

Vietnam in the wartime through a German photographer’s lens

 VietNamNet Bridge – Coming to Vietnam in 1960-1970, photographer Bill Thomas Hardt recorded the brutal scenes of war.

Street cafes have new faces

Street cafes, in the thoughts of many Vietnamese, mean the shops where people sit on old chairs tasting the glasses of coffee with no clear origin. However, they are getting quite different now.

School love: teens need sex education

 VietNamNet Bridge – Student psychology is becoming increasingly complex. This fact requires schools to change sex education methods.

Optimistic signs for Vietnamese Cinema

 VietNamNet Bridge – In 2013, the Vietnamese Film Industry has celebrated the 60th anniversary of a decree signed by Uncle Ho to establish the Vietnamese revolutionary cinema sector.

Livestock industry has to cut costs

 VietNamNet Bridge – The domestic livestock industry must find a way to reduce its production cost and become more competitive, or give in to the market domination of imported meat.

Vietnamese pour money into casinos for Chinese players

Vietnamese investors are considering building casinos worth billions of dollars in Quang Ninh province and Phu Quoc Island to attract Chinese travelers after noting the sharp rise in the number of Chinese travelers to Vietnam recently.

New decree gives a tool to fine Facebook?

Though a new decree stipulating the punishments on the violations of the e-commerce law has been released, lawyers and analysts still argue about if Facebook would be fined if it does not register its operation to the watchdog agency.

HCM City still cannot clear unlicensed privately run nursery classes

HCM City vows to dissolve 866 unlicensed privately run nursery classes after a series of child abuse cases were discovered. However, this proves to be an “impossible mission.”

National treasures aged nearly 1,000 years

VietNamNet Bridge – Nine items, closely related to the development of Viet Nam from the Ly Dynasty (1009-1225) to the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945), were recognized as national treasures. 

British thespian loves the Saigon lifestyle

 VietNamNet Bridge – Belinda Smith was working as a science teacher in a school near Liverpool when she decided it was time for a change of lifestyle.