VietNamNet Bridge – Every afternoon, around 4.30pm, Nguyen Thi Lan, a bank employee in Dong Da District of Ha Noi starts getting worried. She waits for her boss to leave office, and then rushes off to pick up her daughter from school.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A newly-opened museum has been an eye-opener for children, exciting curiosity about the world around them.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many Vietnamese parents believe that the virtual world on social networks is not a good environment for children.

 More than 650,000 children worldwide develop tuberculosis each year, research in the journal Lancet Global Health suggests.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Summer vacation brings joy to children but much worries to their parents, particularly those in urban areas because they do not have the time to take care and help their children to revise a lesson.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Trong An, former deputy head of the Department of Childcare and Protection, tells Hai Quan online newspaper that ensuring adequate healthcare and education for children is an urgent task.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With a vast variety of illegally imported toys available at reasonable prices, Vietnamese-made toys are falling out of favour with children in HCM City.

 A group of children in Tanzania who are naturally immune to malaria are helping scientists to develop a new vaccine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese parents today tend to “adore” the western teaching methods, believing that only such advanced methods, not the Vietnamese out-of-date ones, can help turn their children into talents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many parents have been opting for expensive imported products for their children as confidence in Vietnamese-made products wanes.

 Flu vaccines may help cut a child's risk of flu-related intensive care hospitalization by 74 percent, revealed a study released Thursday by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

 VietNamNet Bridge - While the proportion of underweight malnutrition decreased steadily over the years, the number of children who do not reach the standard height is still high, the National Institute of Nutrition has announced.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has become the fourth country in the world and the second in Southeast Asia to produce an anti-diarrhea vaccine for children.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first semester of the 2013-2014 academic year has finished. Vietnamese parents now, once again, feel worried about the education their children are enjoying.

 VietNamNet Bridge – State owned nursery schools in big cities, which have been overloaded with local children, are not capable to receive immigrant workers’ children.

Though the quality of care service and meals are not commensurate with the high tuitions, parents still have to bring their children to private nursery schools because state owned schools have been overloaded.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is not good for children to be taught early mental and super-quick maths programmes before they're able to recognise numbers, said an official from the Hanoi Department of Education and Training.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The new school model for Vietnam is believed to “force children to mature soon,” though is introduced as a “friendly” teaching model designed on the achievements of the international education renovation.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In 10 years, the average height of the Vietnamese people rose only 1cm, but the proportion of children under 5 years of age who are overweight and obese increased 9 times.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The 67-year-old female artist Nguyen Thi Hien has opened her six personal exhibitions in HCM City Museum of Fine Arts.