The Ministry of Health has asked the public to suspend the use and trade of several baby formula milk and baby food products made by French dairy giant Lactalis following concerns over salmonella contamination.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Families of the eight people who died after undergoing kidney dialysis at Hoa Binh Province General Hospital have filed a lawsuit against the hospital requesting compensation, 

HCM City People’s Court has sentenced Nguyen Thi Hoang Oanh, former director of Ben Thanh branch of the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Nam, to life in prison on corruption charges

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called for the adoption of world standard organic agriculture so Vietnamese farm produce can be promoted at home and abroad.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – World cup winning former French football star, Christian Karembeu, will arrive in Vietnam to meet Vietnamese fans at the Hoa Lu Stadium, HCM City, on December 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Noted water puppeteer Phan Thanh Liem has just opened his second miniature theatre for water puppetry at his private home in Hanoi’s Long Bien District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Transport has proposed the city People’s Committee allow a pilot electric motorbike rental programme in District 1.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two companies involved in an illegal case of hazardous waste landfill in central Ha Tinh Province have been fined a total VND1 billion or US $45,000.

The People’s Court in Mekong Delta’s Can Tho City sentenced one foreigner and three Vietnamese to prison for cheating 37 people of some VND5.3 billion (US$235,500) via social network Facebook.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly has passed a revised law on fisheries as Vietnam prepares a national plan to prevent, minimise and eliminate illegal fishing by 2025. 

Being a midwife in a remote, mountainous area is a thankless job. The remuneration is pitiful, even though the job is of vital importance in maintaining maternal health, especially among ethnic minority communities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Gia Han of Hai Phong often holds her breath as she stares into the room where her baby is being taken care of.

Well-meant but misguided climate change interventions in the Mekong Delta are set to do more harm than good, and only a change in policymakers’ mindset can reverse the damage, 

Madelon Willemsen, head of the Vietnam office of the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC, said that the wildlife-related tourism activities that have been popular in the country for decades, such as elephant riding, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Huynh Huu Canh and his cousin were digging up an iron object one day when a bomb left over from the war exploded, killing his cousin and leaving Canh, then in the fourth grade, blind.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At the age of 15, HCM City’s native swimmer Nguyen Huu Kim Son won an individual medley gold at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games held in Malaysia this year, setting a new Games record.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vu Ngoc Dang won the Best Director award at the 20th National Film Festival in Da Nang recently. It was the second such award for Dang, his first coming in 2012. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Small earthworms hide giant benefits that have not been fully exploited in Vietnam agriculture.

VietNamNet Bridge – Four 40-45 story apartment buildings in Kim Van–Kim Lu New Urban Area in Hoang Mai District are home to about 16,000 people.

Education and investment in human resources (HR) are the driving force for economic development, HR experts and educators from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) agreed at the Global HR Forum