Experts bemoan decline in classic book reading

 VietNamNet Bridge – Classic novels are regarded as unattractive by young readers, while publishers are failing in persuading readers back to the genre.

Paying a visit to the largest zoo in Vietnam

With thousands of wild animals of African origin living in an area of over 100 hectares of natural land, the Trai Bo ecological farm in Dien Chau district in the central province of Nghe An is the biggest zoo in Vietnam.

HCM City needs more human resources in IT sector

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s IT sector is one of the top 10 sectors that will need a large number of staff over the next three years.

Alumina plants’ capacities may be doubled

 VietNamNet Bridge – The capacities of Tan Rai and Nhan Co alumina plants will remain unchanged from now to 2015, but they could be doubled thereafter if transport infrastructure was good enough,

Stamp collector brings images of the world to his doorstep

 VietNamNet Bridge – What does Nguyen Thanh Kim, a stamp collector, have that makes other philatelists jealous?

Bad debt ratio decrease raises worry than joy

The State Bank of Vietnam has reported that the bad debt ratio has decreased sharply by 2.82 percent to six percent. However, analysts have looked dubiously at the figure

Tougher penalties proposed for street racers

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport proposed stricter punishments and higher fines for traffic violators, especially illegal street racers.

HCM City’s most modern boulevard continues to subside

After three times of repair, the East-West Highway, which was built at the cost of hundreds of millions of US dollars, is still severely subsided. The investor has committed to complete the repair in early 2013.

Gov't to promote nuclear power

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Science and Technology will conduct a VND200 billion (over US$9.5 million) information project on nuclear power development.

Noble lady’s Saigon story

 VietNamNet Bridge – Having recently been in town filming the six-week Vietnamese leg of the biopic Noble – the story of missionary Christina Noble – director Stephen Bradley . . .

Destroying forest to seek rare herbs

The Central Highlands is favored with various varieties of rare herbs. However, the resources of herbs in this region are getting exhaust when thousands of people are flocking into the jungle to exploit them.

Vietnam vows to impose heavy punishment to stop seafood material bleeding

The draft decree of pecuniary penalty on the violations in seafood trade says the fine of up to VND100 million would be imposed on the institutions which join forces with foreign merchants to collect aquatic materials in the domestic market.

HIV/AIDS fight faces cash crunch

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam faces two major hurdles in combating HIV/AIDS: namely unsustainable achievements and the reduction of international financial support,

Vehicle registration rules to take effect from next month

VietNamNet Bridge – Police are soon to be prohibited from stopping travelling motorbikes in order to check ownership documentation and may only pull vehicles over if they have just cause to do so.

The dying canals in Saigon

Canals in Ho Chi Minh City are dying because each day they have to suffer hundreds of tons of garbage discharged from households who live along the canals, ships, fruit shops and passers-by.

Wave stimulating equipment cause a headache to mobile network operators

More and more people Hanoi have installed cellphone wave stimulating equipment at their homes to improve the wave quality.

In economic recession, there’s no opportunity for fastidious workers

A big real estate developer has been reportedly hospitalized to treat his mental disease. Thousands of bachelors in Da Nang City now work as blue collar workers at an electronics company.

Urban administration should be constitutionalized, say deputies

Deputies of the HCMC People’s Council, speaking at a meeting last Friday on the draft of the amended 1992 Constitution, proposed urban and rural administration should be constitutionalized.

Impressive old houses in Tuy Loan

VietNamNet Bridge – Coming to Tuy Loan in Hoa Vang district, Da Nang city, visitors should not forget to drop at the ancient house named Tich Thien Duong.

Buddhist cultural heritage of Vietnam on display

VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly 200 documents and artifacts are displayed in the Vietnamese Buddhist Cultural Heritage exhibition at the National History Museum, No. 25 Tong Dan Street, Hanoi.

Dissatisfied with teachers, students commit suicide

Instead of consulting with friends and relatives on their problems, or thinking of the solutions to overcome difficulties, a lot of students have commit suicide to escape their hitches.

10-year-old Vietnamese-American girl finds her Vietnamese mother

Convincing her American adoptive parents to return to Vietnam with her to find her birth mother, during the search process, Jolie Nhung Thi Hoang LaBarge always wore Vietnamese ao dai and occasionally babbled a few sentences in Vietnamese.

The outstanding feature of the Vietnamese defense policy

What are the most striking characteristics of Vietnam's defense policy after 38 years of reunification? VietNamNet would like to introduce the interview with Deputy Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh.

The money-making formulas of Vietnamese celebrities

VietNamNet Bridge - Hiding behind the halo of beautiful girls in the Vietnamese showbiz are the two popular “formulars” to make money or to earn fame.

Processed meats linked to premature death: study

 Sausages, hams, bacon and other processed meats are said to be linked to an increased risk of dying young, European researchers reported on Wednesday.