VietNamNet Bridge – International Master Pham Le Thao Nguyen continued her good performance at the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Online shops on social networks can be a great way for small-scale traders to shift some clobber, but a public forum probably isn’t the best place to sell stolen goods.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature plans to launch a communication campaign to promote the non-use of plastic bags as a prelude to its sea turtle conservation programme on Ly Son Island in 2018.

Cameroon Foreign Minister Lejeune Mbella Mbella has affirmed that Cameroon hopes to bolster co-operation with Vietnam in trade, investment, agriculture, education, green energy and telecommunications. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some say all original thought is simply undetected plagiarism, and most undergrad students know a thing or two about ripping off idea’s from others, but at least kids cover their tracks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese are eating a lot of salty food. However, many people refuse to accept that excess salt in one’s daily diet is not healthy and may cause several non communicable diseases (NCDs)) 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A long time ago, monks in the South used sugar palm leaves to maintain a written record of Buddhist prayers.

Dr Hoang Ngoc Giao, director of the Institute for Policy, Law and Development Studies, tells Tuoi Tre (Youth) that the parliament owes the public a law on public private partnership and needs to repay its “debt” soon.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hue City in central Thua Thien- Hue Province and one of its hotel facilities have been listed among the awardees of the ASEAN Green Awards 2018.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will propose a new roadmap for calculating pensions for female workers to the National Assembly (NA).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has approved an adjusted construction master plan for the HCM City Zone to 2030 with a vision to 2050.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Dien Hai Citadel in the central city has been recognised as a National Special Relic, one of 10 approved by the Prime Minister early this week.

Many hospitals in HCM City use software to monitor the prescription of antibiotics to ensure they are not abused causing bacteria to mutate to become antibiotic-resistant, a major global health problem, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – iFreight, a startup in the logistics sector, on December 26 introduced its online logistics booking system in Vietnam on the website at https://ifreight.net.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Planning experts have urged authorities in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong to preserve the special urban heritage of Da Lat City.

Though Vietnam has a low fatality rate among patients with dengue fever, the Ministry of Health has instructed hospitals nationwide to try to further reduce the number of deaths to the lowest possible number.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thirty-two Vietnamese celebrities have put their exquisite beauty on show for a recent semi-nude photo collection.

 Those wishing to get a feel of Western winter in the heart of HCM City should drop by Snow Town, an entertainment venue which has come into operation early this month in a new residential area in District 2.

The government of Quang Ngai Province has written to the Government and ministries proposing not applying a regulatory charge of 7% to Dung Quat Oil Refinery and approving the refinery expansion project, 

The Ministry of Transport has issued a decision calling for public-private partnership (PPP) investment totaling nearly VND104.1 trillion in eight sections of the North-South Expressway in 2017-2020.