The annual KOVA Prize 2017 honoured contributions of two groups, eight outstanding individuals and seven students for their outstanding contributions to the fields of applied science and technology, and social welfare, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Midfielder Dinh Thanh Trung of Quang Nam FC was voted as the best player of the V.League 2017 season in a gala ceremony held in Hanoi on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thang Long Warriors came from behind to beat Cantho Catfish 95-80 to win the second Viet Nam Basketball Association league on Sunday in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thai Son Nam won the National Futsal Cup title after defeating Hai Phuong Nam 2-1 in the finals yesterday at the Da Nang’s Tien Son Sports Palace.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Vo Thanh Tung brought home a bronze medal from the World Para Swimming Championship in Mexico on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Van Hieu from Ninh Binh Province’s Gia Trung Commune has been working as a ferryman for 35 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A school with some of the prettiest - and toughest - students in North Vietnam recently celebrated its 100th birthday. One of its pupils was Le Thi, later to become a professor. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Van Viet remembers very clearly the day he was rushing his father to the Cho Ray Hospital in an ambulance.

As natural rivers in the countryside have become more and more contaminated with rubbish, a young farmer in My Hao District of northern Hung Yen Province has created artificial streams to raise healthy fish.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A “terrible waste” of resources is taking place as a grand plan to shift Government offices, schools and hospitals to suburban enclaves in the capital city fails to materialise, almost three years on.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On a typical morning in HCM City, Nguyen Hai Tung, 27, appears on the twenty fifth floor of a building in District 7. He is preparing for a good day’s work, but not as a white collar worker.

Vietnam can and should extend social protection to those in the informal economy through a mix of contributory and non-contributory schemes in order to achieve universal coverage, experts said at a conference on Wednesday.

“We woke up from a noon nap to find part of the village’s main road gone!” Vo Dai Lua, a resident of Thua Thien- Hue Province’s La Khe Trẹm Village, spoke with a mixture of amazement and fear.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Folk music researcher Bui Trong Hien recently completed a report on the revitalisation of hat cua dinh (singing at the village’s communal house). 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Damrey, the twelfth typhoon that hit Vietnam this year, struck Ha Thuan Village more than a month ago, but the roads to it in Duy Vinh Commune are still deep in mud.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In contrast to the number of English, Chinese and Korean teachers in Vietnam, Natalia Zolkina stands out as being one of the few Russian-language lecturers in HCM City.

Endless effort and passion has enabled Lai Xuan Huy to succeed at a deadly form of martial arts. He even quit university to learn more about the ancient art from Okinawa, the home of nunchaku, two sticks joined by a short chain. 

Old, makeshift dormitories for ethnic students in the northern mountains were sometimes made by putting timber panels together. Now, these shacks are being replaced with stable buildings, 

Dang Huy Dong, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, tells Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam (Viet Nam Economic Times) that the Planning Law will boost growth and be welcomed by enterprises.

VietNamNet Bridge – Andrea Nguyen has authored many English books featuring Vietnamese cuisine that are more than cook books, offering glimpses into national history, culture and traditional customs.