VietNamNet Bridge – It's the age-old question: What toy do you buy for the child who has everything? Thankfully for hard-pushed parents, the new age answer is simple and affordable: None, you rent one instead.

VietNamNet Bridge - From a Nephiete gemstone block of 4.5 tons, artisans carved the statue of Emperor Tran Nhan Tong, who is praised as the most perspicacious king in the Vietnamese history.

 Before major religions were present in Vietnam, the people had developed their own beliefs. As well as worshiping their ancestors, famous craftsmen and heroes who fought off foreign invaders, they worship the Four Immortals,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Holding a ty ba (traditional four-stringed guitar) delicately in his hands like an angel with a harp, Swedish artist Stefan Ostersjo slowly turns his body in an elegant female fashion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tourism contributes around five percent to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), but the industry is lagging far behind in this field and has hardly invested soundly in it to make any significant difference.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Diabetes is a silent killer that is stalking Viet Nam, with an estimated 60 per cent of patients with the disease unaware that they have it.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two controversial planned hydroelectricity projects in Cat Tien National Park have been unmasked as violating Vietnam’s legal regulations.

VietNamNet Bridge - The government will use more sets of indicators to assess people's satisfaction with the administration, said the director of the Public Administration Reform Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite Vietnam spending billions of dollars on education annually, the quality of the country’s education remains far from expectations, one educator has said.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – More foreign investment is needed for high-tech production, services and research in HCM City through to the end of 2015.

It’s now the right time to find the way to rescue the huge assets which have been lost day by day, and save the crew members who have been trapped in both Vietnam and foreign countries.

After VietNamNet reported about the high number of cancer cases around Thach Khe iron mine, Ha Tinh province, the local authorities investigated. However, their data is much low compared with the previous information provided by the local people.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has signed the Resolution 19-NQ/TW on continuing renovation of land policies in a bid to create background for Viet Nam to become a basically modern-oriented industrial country by 2020. 

VietNamNet Bridge - So you are thinking of what to do on your next holiday to Vietnam? Try Halong Bay cruising.

 VietNamNet Bridge – I have visited Phan Rang several times but each trip gave me a new experience and brought me to new cool places of this coastal central city of Ninh Thuan Province.

The predictions about the world’s quiet rice market in second half of 2012 did not come true. Consignments of rice exports have been continually leaving Vietnam’s ports for other countries in recent days.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As of last week 33 out of the 66 hydropower dams subject to periodic inspections had not been checked, including seven large-scale dams.

Workers back to Libya; Vietnam, Denmark cooperate in wind power development; Petrol traders ordered to stop abusing stabilisation fund; Vietnamese handicrafts on show in Germany; VietJetAir continues biggest ever sale

VietNamNet Bridge - Chinese poor quality garment products have become Vietnamese products for exports, by using fake labels. These products are sold very well.

When asking the philosophical question “If you can change one thing in the society, what will you change?” Ting-Ting Cheng, a Taiwanese artist in the city for one month for an art-exchange project in HCMC, is always intrigued

‘Voracious Embrace: The Human / Animal Interface’ solo installation exhibition by Lena Bui on Thursday opened at HCMC Fine Arts Museum, bringing visitors to the hidden, perhaps overlooked encounters, between the human and animal world.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The large number of upscale hotels and resorts being built across the country could create an oversupply and lead to unhealthy competition among hoteliers, experts have warned.

VietNamNet Bridge – Several areas of Ha Long Bay, the newly-voted world wonder in northern coastal Quang Ninh Province, are seriously polluted. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Lan, a worker in Ha Noi's Bac Thang Long Industrial Zone, has had three abortions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese movie industry faced a lack of resources and money to make historical movies, cinema researchers and filmmakers told a conference on Tuesday in Ha Noi.