Ha Noi streets are getting a facelift: authorities have begun paving degraded streets with natural stone as part of a project to beautify the city and improve safety for walkers and drivers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Truong Thi Kim Tuyen of Viet Nam grabbed a silver in the Rabat 2017 World Taekwondo Grand Prix Series, which concluded in Morocco yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Quang Liem grabbed the eighth gold medal for Viet Nam at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) in Turkmenistan yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese dipping sauce and a huge variety of fresh aromatic herbs are the soul of the country’s cuisine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The power of the social media has become increasingly obvious over the last few years, and wherever there is power, there is huge potential for it to be abused.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Leaving Ngoi Village, a beautiful and pristine village on the banks of Hoa Binh Lake, we were eager to discover Lung Van.

Vietnamese-Australian celebrity chef Luke Nguyen is overseeing the rebirth of the newly renovated Vietnam House in the heart of HCM City, offering a new twist on old favorites. Nguyen became famous at aged 23 

Teacher Ngo Manh Cuong, 60, was one of the few residents of Ha Noi’s outer district of Ung Hoa honoured for their virtues and contribution to society in the city last year.

With warnings about the ill effects of groundwater on users’ health and possible land subsidence due to overexploitation of water, 10 years ago HCM City authorities had adopted policies to reduce the use of groundwater.

It takes Doan Thi Xuyen, 31, three to four hours a day to climb up a trail leading to Ta Lu Dang kindergarten in a village in the northern mountainous Yen Bai Province to teach the local kids.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After many attempts, I finally got to meet Jimmy Pham - a man of large stature and a gentle smile. He is single, but much busier than those with a family.

Ngo Thi Thuy Hang gave up her stable, high-paid job in Ho Chi Minh City to move to Ha Noi, almost 1,800 kilometres away. She has seemingly forsaken her youth in the quest for martyrs’ remains,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The world’s first fully painted film, reflecting the life and career of Vincent van Gogh, will open in Viet Nam on October 6.

Phan Xuan Xiem, former member of the Party Central Inspection Committee, speaks to the newspaper Khoa hoc & Doi song about the need for high-quality reports reflecting reality, not rosy reports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Van Ky remembers the dinh (communal house) mostly as a place of festivities, full of laughter and gaiety.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” 

 VietNamNet Bridge – At the beginning of this school year, teachers and students at Phan Ngọc Nhan Primary School in the central province of Quang Nam were very curious about the used shipping container 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ta Yen Ray, a 16 year-old living in mountainous Ma Noi Commune, central province of Ninh Thuan, was often called “monster-faced boy” because of his cleft lip.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Thi Chang, president of the Vietnamese women’s club in Malaysia, was worried. More and more Vietnamese children were growing up in the country, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has had many policies encouraging the development of the private sector. But the sector continues to face many Government-created hurdles,