VietNamNet Bridge – The capital city has managed to build only 17 out of 80 schools that meet national standards as per this year’s plan.

The Government unveiled an action plan on Monday to transform the tourism sector into the country’s economic engine, following the Poliburo’s decision to pursue that goal.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to publicise the names of 13 slaughterhouses located within the Xuyen A slaughterhouse complex

Authorities in several northern provinces have remained silent as hundreds of thousands of households living along Lo River desperately seek help to prevent their farms being swept away by rampant sand mining.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Violations of construction regulations have been increasing in HCM City despite sanctions imposed by the city, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ground was officially broken in Can Tho for a 500-bed oncology hospital, to be the biggest and most modern in the Mekong Delta yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Water intrusion in the central coastal province of Thua Thien-Hue has threatened 700 families, with local authorities struggling to find a solution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Top Players Badminton Tournament is scheduled to kick off on October 22 in the northern province of Thai Binh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The fourth Vietnam Junior Fashion Week 2017 (VJFW 2017) will be held in HCM City from October 13 to 15. 

High tides over the last few days damaged a 20-metre section of an anti-flood construction work along riverbanks in Can Tho City’s Ninh Kieu District, affecting the property of dozens of households

A vertical photo depicting a papaya tree rising from a narrow gap between residential buildings in HCM City, taken by Tran Vu Quang Duy, won first prize at a photo contest for young Vietnamese artists.

Illegal road blocks, failure to follow safety mining procedures and disregard of public safety are among the violations of a mining company operating at Muong Ang District

 VietNamNet Bridge – The northernmost province in the country is no longer a “remote area” in the tourism sense of the word.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Binh Duong Province authorities on Monday fined Viet Huong 2 Industrial Park VND1.96 billion (US$86,300) for discharging untreated wastewater into the Sai Gon River.

Two years after the southern city launched family health insurance plans, family coverage languishes at just 24 percent—a disappointing result that augurs ill for the Government’s bid to achieve universal healthcare coverage by 2020.

The capital city has proposed a VND1.5 trillion (US$66 million), two-year project that will upgrade roads and divide traffic flow at the Phap Van-Cau Gie Expressway and Ring Road No 3 intersection.

The economic structure in Viet Nam’s rural areas has been transformed in the past five years, with fewer people working in the agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors and more in construction, industry and services, 

The 19th century home of scholar Huynh Thuc Khang in the central province of Quang Nam will get a facelift with an investment of VND50 billion approved by the provincial People’s Committee.

Police and forest rangers of Hue City in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue are in co-operation to identify the persons who illegally cut down 3,000sq.m of special-use pine forest last month.

Ha Noi’s Department of Tourism has begun offering training classes to residents living in areas that receive heavy tourist traffic, aiming to promote community-based tourism and improve the quality of tourist services.