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Festival brings science films to young audiences

The annual Science Film Festival is bringing 19 science films mostly targeting young people in Viet Nam’s big cities, with screenings beginning this month and running until December 7.

Blockbusters to be shown for free

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese blockbusters will be shown for free for a month at CGV cinemas nationwide.

No culpability as children drown in manholes, sewers

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was raining heavily as Nguyen Tan Truong, an 11-year-old fourth grader at the Chu Van An Primary School in Dong Nai Province, walked home.

HCM City, Binh Duong to treat Ba Bo pollution

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City and Binh Duong Province People’s Committee have agreed to collaborate on treating pollution at Ba Bo Canal during the 2017-18.

Exhibition on spring calendars opens at book street

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s culture, history and landscapes are major themes of calendars for 2018, which are being showcased at the HCM City Book Pedestrian Street.

Danang Dragons beat HCM City Wings at VN Basketball League

 VietNamNet Bridge – Danang Dragons beat HCM City Wings 63-60 in the Viet Nam Basketball Association (VBA) League at the Military Zone 5 Gymnasium in Da Nang yesterday.

Three Idiots win Wonderful Da Nang contest

 VietNamNet Bridge – A team calling itself "Three Idiots" was named the winner of the first Wonderful Da Nang tourism experience contest at an awards ceremony in the central city yesterday. 

Thai referees to officiate at VN-Cambodia match

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thai referees will manage the match between Viet Nam and Cambodia in the qualifying round of the Asian Cup 2019 to be held at the My Dinh National Stadium tomorrow.

Hanoi to build five regional markets

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five agricultural wholesale markets will be built in Ha Noi despite the unresolved food hygiene and operational problems dogging city markets.

Flood warning installed in HCM City

Research Laboratories of Saigon High-Tech Park has begun installing a flood warning system at flooding hotspots in HCM City, aiming to alert city residents and suggest alternate traffic routes.

First HCM City metro tracks due this month

The first set of tracks and sleepers will be installed on HCM City’s 19.7km metro line No 1 from Ben Thanh Market to Suoi Tien Tourist Park on October 23, the director of the project has said.

HCM City plans 7 infrastructure projects

Upgrading old buildings and relocating households living near canals are among the major projects that HCM City aims to carry out now and in the near future,

Education dept encourages alternative parking at schools

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has urged administrators at primary and secondary schools to reduce traffic congestion during peak hours when parents and others pick up students.

Landslide threatens Dak Nong Province

Some 15ha of agriculture land and farm produce of 50 households in Nam N’Dir Commune, Krong No District, Dak Nong Province, was lost in a landslide in Krong No River.

Traditional medicine doesn’t cure cancer: doctors

With traditional medicine still popular in Viet Nam, many breast cancer patients use unscientific and useless herbal cures to fight tumours, leaving them with more dangerous cancer and often severe side effects, 

How the sight-impaired cross the river of failure

After it opened in 2014, there were many doubts about the future of Noir, the HCM City restaurant operated by sight-impaired staff. However, after three years, the restaurant has continued to inspire. 

Vietnam’s puppetry art turns global

Traditional water puppetry shows of the Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre will be performed at the upcoming the 21st Festival de L’Imaginaire in France

On her toes to keep ballet alive in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ballerina Ngo Thuy To Nhu, who performed in her first solo show at the HCM City Opera House last week, has been on a three-decade journey to promote ballet in Viet Nam. 

Poetry in the veins of live blood bank founder

Professor. Dr Nguyen Anh Tri, director of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT), is the founder of the live blood bank, one of big blood donors in Viet Nam. 

Parents’ association should not be money collectors

 VietNamNet Bridge – Recently, a father of two secondary students in HCM City sent a letter to the Government asking for the dissolution of parents’ associations in schools.