VietNamNet Bridge –  A VND473 billion (US$21 million) flood-prevention project in HCM City’s Binh Thanh District will be implemented in the period of 2017-2018, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Striker Junior Claudecir scored twice to help Quang Nam beat Hai Phong 2-1 in the last 16 of the National Cup at Tam Ky Stadium yesterday.

HCM City have signed a 18-month contract with striker Vu Quang Nam of Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA) to prepare for the second leg of the national premier league.

The lack of adequately equipped playgrounds and healthy entertainment activities has become a concern in rural areas, especially during the long summer vacation.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called for strong political will and feasible measures to achieve growth targets set for each sector this year.

The HCM City People’s Committee has notified the Ministry of Construction that it agrees with the ministry’s master plan to boost capacity by up to 40 per cent at Tan Son Nhat Airport.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs (MoLISA) must re-examine the operation of vocational training centres to curb financial waste, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A table tennis tournament for Vietnamese citizens and overseas Vietnamese took place in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s northern province of Lao Cai will team up with China’s southwestern province of Yunnan in hosting an international cycling race in July.

Australia’s Howard&Sons Pyrotechnics, Italy’s Martarello and Pyrotex Fireworx team from the UK have been named the finalists of the 2017 Da Nang International Fireworks Festival.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The province of Phu Tho is known for lang fish, which is a type of catfish caught in the rivers that flow through the area. 

John Hawksworth, chief economist for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the UK, recently came to Vietnam to attend an APEC-related meeting as speaker. The Saigon Times Daily spoke with him about his views ...

Holding a long ladder, Paul George Harding gave a smiling hello to a group of young students who were scraping dirty advertisements pasted on the walls of Nguyen Ngoc Vu Street.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Students at Nguyen Dinh Chieu School in HCM City now have something to look forward to when they get up every day to go to class.

Vietnamese cueist Nguyen Quoc Nguyen, 35, started participating in professional billiards tournaments when he was close to 30, but despite the late start, he has made his mark internationally.

 VietNamNet Bridge – I do not need a second invitation when relatives call me to visit their hometown, either to chill out or check out some local attraction.

Chu Mom Ray National Park, Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam is home to a rehabilitation centre for many endangered species of monkeys and gibbons. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s economic performance in the first five months of the year has been rock steady.

Some 1,625 people have engaged in the Ha Long-Cat Ba Alliance and 109 people have benefited from sustainable management and conservation of resources with the project’s support.

The Duc Tai Investment and Construction Joint Stock Company exploited limestone in the central province of Thanh Hoa for the past two years without taking any environmental protection measures,