Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministers, leaders of relevant agencies and chairmen of provincial and municipal people’s committees to speed up replies to comments and petitions they receive from the public.

HCM City plans to step up enforcement against smuggling and trade fraud to cope with the increasing number of violations, especially at Cat Lai Port in HCM City. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi’s iconic Hoan Kiem Lake has been severely polluted through the years and must be cleaned to save the threatened living creatures there, 

When great writers describe a place, a mere mound on a plain “grows” from an insignificant patch of land into a unique witness to history, and we are able to watch and experience those momentous events unfold. 

Desperate to find jobs, an increasing number of residents from the northern mountain province of Cao Bang are illegally crossing the border to China, ...

Nguyen Bich Lam, director general of Viet Nam General Statistics Office, spoke to Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam newspaper about the significance of the 2017 Census.

New report reveals that widespread fraud by both healthcare institutions and patients have cost health insurance funds some VND3 trillion ($132 million) in the first four months of the year.

Transportation companies say there are suffering significant losses because of a new rule that requires original documents of vehicles to be presented on demand by traffic police. 

A new tuong (classical drama) show, the brainchild of a Vietnamese and Singaporean director, will be performed at Pohang Bada International Festival in South Korea in August 2017.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 3rd Viet Nam International Fingerstyle Guitar Festival will be held in Ha Noi and HCM City on July 18 & 19.

Thousands of sanitation workers in the southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City are finding their work particularly unrewarding, now more than ever, as they have been working practically without pay 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The news that reputed public schools in Hanoi will increase their tuition fees further in the next academic year has many parents worried.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Medical experts are warning against what they see as an anti-vaccine campaign that is being waged on social media.

All fuel pumps at petrol stations in HCM City will be sealed from September 2017 to prevent tampering of their meters by the stations and ensure they fully pay taxes.

The HCM City administration has instructed the Department of Transport to install LED lights in public places and schools on a trial basis to reduce power consumption.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sanna Khanh Hoa of Viet Nam claimed the silver medal at the ASEAN Football Federation Futsal Club Championship in Thailand yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam are in Group B of the men’s football event in the upcoming 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, 

Twenty-five golfers in the southern region have earned tickets to compete in the final round of the TP Bank World Amateur Golfers Championship (WAGC) Viet Nam 2017.

Khang Quoc Tuan, the director of  tourism in Hai Duong Province once told us that “ Hai Duong has not much, but we have our hearts with which to welcome all of you”. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Earlier this month, the Environment Minister said “we can’t dump waste into the sea.”