School curricula and textbooks needed to be geared more towards practical knowledge rather than theory, said experts at a recent meeting held by the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam and Russia worked together on Wednesday on how to speed up the progress of building the first nuclear power plant in central Ninh Thuan Province in 2014 as earlier scheduled.

The Ministry of Public Securities has found the three individual believed to have started rumour that the chairman of the Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam was arrested in February, causing chaos in the stock market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang will pay a visit to the U.S. next week to discuss with President Barack Obama about the new direction of bilateral relations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the afternoon of July 18, a gas explosion occurred in the warehouse of the U.S. Consulate General at No. 51 Nguyen Dinh Chieu, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, taking the life of a male worker.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s famous model Ha Anh has been invited as a MC to the final round of Miss Global pageant scheduled for August 3 in California, USA.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will host the 46th International Chemistry Olympiad in July 2014, drawing high school student participants from 70 countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 20th international track-and-field tournament (or called Ho Chi Minh City Open 2013) will be held on July 20-21.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Nigerian national named Okoye Uchenna, 36 years old, has been taken into custody for appropriating property through online swindle, the police in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho said on July 17.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Quang Binh plans to launch experimental adventure tours to Son Doong Cave, which is considered the largest cave in the world, in early August this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A free hotline has opened to enable people to provide information the sovereignty of Viet Nam's sea and islands.

 An "intelligent" surgical knife can tell surgeons, within seconds, whether the tissue they are removing is cancerous or not, British researchers reported Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport will not grant permission for building new container ports in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, HCMC and Dong Nai until 2015 as ports in the Cai Mep-Thi Vai have been operating at far below capacity.

 PM orders agencies to tighten their belts; Drop in profits revealed by BVS; Banking sector remains tainted by widespread corruption; Construction ministry outlines housing strategy; Metro pulls sturgeon from its shelves

 VietNamNet Bridge – An additional 26,000 taels of gold was sold at auction on Tuesday, taking the total so far to over 1.19 million taels, or nearly 45 tons.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The total value of goods in stock declined in the first six months as production output was lower than in the same period last year,

 Strange disease identified as hepatitis; Capital may set up 190 taxi ranks; Japan grants 30 scholarships for Vietnamese cadres; USAid funds children's rehabilitation centre

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese delegation to the 2013 International Mathematics Competition held early this month in Bulgaria have won three gold medals at the event, which is designed for students in grades 5 to 10.

 The U.S. military unveiled Thursday one of its most-advanced humanoid robots known as Atlas, which was created to assist in future emergency situations, the American Forces Press Service reported Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mergers and acquisitions are expected to pick up pace this year despite a slow start to the year, mainly thanks to the increasing interest of foreign investors.

VietNamNet Bridge – German Ambassador to Vietnam, Jutta Frasch and Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training, Pham Vu Luan signed a cooperative agreement on teaching German as a first or second language in selected Vietnamese schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Being declared as LX125 scooters and computer screens, but when the customs checked the containers, there were hundreds of heavyweight motorcycles, many of which are up to 1,800 cc, which are banned from import.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The storm swept through northern Luzon Island (Philippines) and will go on the mainland of southeast Guangdong (China).

Dozens of cars with blue registration numbers (public cars) have been fined by Hanoi traffic police over the past several days. At least four drivers had their driving licenses revoked.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 87 people in the central highlands province of Kon Tum had the same symptoms like having a fever, jaundice...