The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked Vinafood 2 to review and punish individuals or groups associated with the corporation’s “mistakes” that have caused losses to the State budget. 

The Korean city of Daegu will help build an integrated managment centre on green and smart urban management in the central city of Da Nang. 

The upcoming International Women’s Volleyball Tournament, VTV Cup Ton Hoa Sen 2017, will be a warm-up for the Vietnamese team to prepare for the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Malaysia in August.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities are alarmed at the declining fertility rates in HCM City and southern provinces.

Pham Minh Tuan, the CEO of FPT Telecom, speaks to the newspaper Kinh te & Do thi about the group’s determination to solve the serious problem of traffic congestion in Ha Noi through its IT application.

Oscar-nominated French screenwriter and film director Olivier Lorelle was in Viet Nam this week for the premiere of his film Ciel Rouge. This is the fourth film made by a French director and entirely shot in Viet Nam, 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has promulgated a new decision allowing the Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN) to raise the average retail price of electricity by between 3-5 per cent on its own, without approval from MoIT.

Da Nang authorities will ask for State funding to build a sea dyke to prevent erosion in Son Tra Peninsula after a villa project in the area was eroded last week.

A group of 25 volunteers from Da Nang Technology College and other colleges have begun their efforts to transform a fishing village of Tam Hai Island into an art space for tourism development.

Veteran artist Nguyen Trinh Thai of Ha Noi is introducing 43 paintings featuring Vietnamese landscapes and people to HCM City gallery visitors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Meigo Mark had already visited 40 countries when the thought struck him: he wanted to travel around the world.

Vehicle owners in Viet Nam will soon be able to buy their favourite registration plates via auctions, with a pilot programme launching in five major cities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The level of fluoride residue found in water used for kidney dialysis in Hoa Binh General Hospital, where eight patients died recently, was high enough to cause fatalities, 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has green lighted HCM City’s proposal to spend VND67 trillion raised from equitisation of State-owned companies and sale of their stakes in non-core business for social development.

With the monsoon approaching, the condition of hundreds of reservoirs in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and Quang Tri has increased concerns of possible danger.

Isolated from the mainland by a river, Tam Hai island commune, in the central province of Quang Nam is an ideal destination for adventure trips, with crystal-clear water and white beaches.

What might have sounded esoteric and exotic to Vietnamese citizens even decades ago is now becoming a mainstream discipline, signifying the deeper inroads that the practice of yoga is making in the country.

Tu Thi Tuyet Nhung of the Viet Nam Organic Association tells Nong thon Ngay nay (Countryside Today) that organic agriculture is a philosophy and a way of living with nature.

Japan’s Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza beat Viet Nam in straight sets 25-19, 25-20, 25-21 in the quarter-finals of the SMM 2017 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship in northern province of Ninh Binh

 VietNamNet Bridge – Handicapped teacher Nguyen Ngoc Ky has released a new autobiography in HCM City.