VietNamNet Bridge – Information technology in health check-ups, medicine management and patient treatment is helping reduce overloading in hospitals.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) encourages schools to exercise the self-control in their enrolment. However, universities keep indifferent to the encouragement.

Added value services now serve as the lever for mobile network operators in the context of the current big economic difficulties.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than half of the melaleuca forests in the southernmost province of Ca Mau are at high risk of wildfire due to prolonged dry weather.

Mozilla Foundation announced Sunday it will launch in mid 2013 its widely anticipated Firefox operating system for smartphones in a direct challenge to the duopoly of Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Unemployment is set to increase in HCM City in the coming months as enterprises strive to cut labour costs, citing the ongoing economic recession.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Education and Training Tran Quang Quy has controversially claimed that banning children under five from studying foreign teaching programmes

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam aims to strengthen the brand of its tourism sector in order to attract more foreign tourists.

VietNamNet Bridge – Analysts have forecast a boom of the Japanese investment in Vietnam. The bilateral trade between Vietnam and the US has also been on the rise.

While Ass. Prof. Ha Dinh Duc says the Hoan Kiem lake turtle is worthy of national treasures by its cultural and historical values, cultural researcher Tran Lam Bien denies this, saying that it only has the scientific value.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In the two months of suppression of crime, 34 groups of mobile police of HCM City handled 166 cases, including possession of illegal weapons, intentionally causing injury, traffic violations ... but no robbery.

 Scientists are delving deep into the travels of whales -- thanks to high-tech tracking devices -- to try to help protect them.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism  has instructed to not licence six overseas Vietnamese singers who participated in the latest DVD produced by the US-based Asia Music Center to perform in Vietnam.

  Nam Giang District to host Gong festival; Festival highlights cosplay culture; Vietnam, Korea artists hold painting exhibition; Cat Ba seeks UNESCO World Heritage recognition

 Thousands flock to Tran Temple Festival Tens of thousands of people converged on Tran Temple complex in Nam Dinh Province on February 23 to attend one of the country’s biggest festivals during the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Winner of the cooking reality show US Master Chef Christine Ha was the special guest at the launch ceremony of the Vietnamese version of the competition in HCM City on Thursday.

Winger Huynh Quoc Anh triggered a double while Argentinean scorer Gaston Merlo and Tanzanian Danny David added a goal each to help SHB Da Nang trounce Sai Gon Xuan Thanh Cement 4-0

Near-poor households to get preferential loans; $2b windfall to aid poor students; Youth arrested for attack on police; Workers unhappy with low wages; Human activity polluting, degrading nation's lands

 Vietnamese windsurfers won first prizes in both the men’s and women’s categories at the 2013 International Windsurf Race that closed in the central province of Binh Thuan on February 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ten people, including six in one family, were killed in two explosions around midnight yesterday, Feb 24, in HCM City’s busy Nam Ki Khoi Nghia Street.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dong Van Stone Plateau in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang will be developed into a national tourism complex by 2020.

 Denmark's food authorities confirmed Sunday that they found a slaughterhouse on Peninsula Jutland illegally mix both horsemeat and pork in pizzas labelled as pure beef.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Returning to Viet Nam after receiving a master’s degree in a high-tech field, Bui Khanh Chi was looking for a job that would allow her to pursue research.

VietNamNet Bridge - Associate Professor Ha Dinh Duc has proposed the Hanoi authorities to ask for the government’s recognition of the Hoan Kiem Lake turtle as the national treasure.

Artist Dao Anh Khanh will dance, sing and perform rock music for special guests at his upcoming show Dao Xuan tonight at his house in Ngoc Thuy, Gia Lam District, Ha Noi.