VietNamNet Bridge – The centralised bidding process to procure medical equipment and other supplies for public hospitals in the capital city is floundering on disagreements over quality and pricing, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Public Security is working on a national database that will store and supply “basic” and accurate information about citizens via their personal ID numbers.

Facing the World is a British-based charity group which aims to give new life to severely disfigured children. The charity Voluntary CEO and Trustee Katrin Kandel will travel to Viet Nam this month to raise donations to train doctors, 

 A staggering number of Vietnamese people have the same family name - Nguyen (many Westerners pronounce this as Win to no complaints, so it’s a win-win situation).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has had its fair share of beauty contest controversies over the years, but the event’s popularity has never waned.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lack of nutrition among pregnant women and those breastfeeding their babies is common in Viet Nam, with deficiencies in zinc, folate, vitamin A and calcium, 

A young woman for the first time has been elected village chief of a Chut ethnic minority group, the highest honour in their society, in central Ha Tinh Province’s Huong Lien Commune.

Although access to credit is seen as a key factor in ending poverty, just 29 per cent or so rural households have received loans, a new report says.

A move by the northern province of Bac Giang’s administration to lease 1877ha of forest land to a State-owned forestry company with a track record of violations and mismanagement has evoked strong protests

Quality assurance to uplift higher education will ensure a country has a highly qualified workforce, Assoc Prof Nantana Gajaseni, acting chairwoman of the ASEAN University Network - Quality Assurance (AUN-QA), has said.

Diverging from the common view that a smart city only means leveraging technology to resolve social issues, the southern province of Binh Duong has opted for a different path: building a smart city with focus on people, 

Experts have called for widening roads, improving transport connectivity and greater use of technology to prevent congestion outside Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Van Lieu, director general of the Department of Local Science and Technology, under the Ministry of Science and Technology, talks to the newspaper Nong thon Ngay nay ...

 Love cycling? Keen on travelling? Eager to learn about ethnic groups? A 100km cycling tour through the northern province of Cao Bang may satisfy all these desires.

The disposal of electronic waste in Viet Nam has been rapidly increasing for several years. However, the current recycling process amounts to preliminary processing and can hardly produce raw materials for re-production, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Professor Nguyen Minh Thuyet, chief editor of the new curriculum for comprehensive education reform, talks to Giao duc Viet Nam (Vietnam Education) e-newspaper

New technologies that work at the nanolevel could be used to produce nano materials for mass market products.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Vinh Tan, Minister of Interior, talks to the newspaper Tien Phong (Vanguard) about the Party’s recent resolution on streamlining the government payroll to increase efficiency.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi’s Department of Transport has submitted to the city’s People’s Committee the route for a double-decker bus tour, the first of its kind for tourists in the capital city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With just two matches left this season, V.League 1’s team HCM City have said goodbye to French coach Alain Fiard.