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Abroad a success, at home a distribution nightmare

 VietNamNet Bridge – Director Luong Dinh Dung’s movie Cha Cong Con (Father and Son) has received international awards, including Best Cinematography at the Barcelona Planet Film Festival, 

Bonsai, rose show cheers nature lovers

More than 200 meticulously shaped bonsai trees and 300 different species of roses are on display at an exhibition at Thang Long Rose Park in Ha Noi’s Thanh Tri District.

Scammers turn their beady eyes to hospitals and patients

Recently, near HCM City’s Traumato Orthopaedics Hospital, a 46-year-old man with a bandaged foot, holding a basket of old clothes and health check-up notebook, was seen approaching patients.

Hospitals reflect on patient feedback

Patients sent complaints about waiting for tests, motorbike parking and toilets to leaders of HCM City Paediatrics Hospital 1 via a new system installed there by the city’s Department of Health.

Airlines told to prep for holidays

 VietNamNet Bridge – Domestic airlines have been asked to minimise delayed or cancelled flights during the upcoming holidays to mark Reunification Day (April 30) and Labour Day (May 1).

Hoi An, Da Nang to mark Liberation and May Day

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thanh Ha Terracotta Park in Hoi An will introduce a statue garden to create more art space on April 30th.

Young stars shine at Devotion Music Awards

 VietNamNet Bridge – Young composer Khac Hung won the Musician and Music Producer of the Year at the Cong Hien (Devotion) Music Awards, 

VN air quality bad over half the year

 VietNamNet Bridge – In four years, from 2011 to 2015, more than 50 per cent cent of all monitored days in Viet Nam posted low air quality. 

Students choose highschool exams for college admissions

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 859,800 candidates completed registration for the national high school examination on April 20, with nearly 75 per cent opting for college admission via high school exam results, 

Youth learn about history through cai luong

Millions of young people in HCM City and the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta region have been captivated by a new TV programme featuring cai luong, a traditional southern music genre, produced by veteran artists.

Vietnam must rein in antibiotic use

Luong Ngoc Khue, director general of the Medical Examination and Treatment Department under the Ministry of Health, speaks to the Hai Quan newspaper about the need to rein in the careless use of antibiotics in Viet Nam.

Vietnamese taekwondo fighters win golds at Kazakhstan Open

Viet Nam wrapped up the Kazakhstan Open Taekwondo Championships - a World Taekwondo Federation G1 event - with five gold medals on Monday.

Smelly but delicious: the dishes of Ninh Binh

Mam tep, shrimp paste, and nem chua, fermented pork, may sound quite intimidating dishes, but don’t let the pungent smell prevent you from trying these interesting specialties of Ninh Binh Province.

’Zero VND tours’ a blight on Vietnam

The head of the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism, Nguyen Van Tuan, tells Kinh te & Do thi newspaper that localities need tailored mechanism to curb poor-quality tours.

Better labour relations help reduce strikes in HCM City

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City saw a decrease in the number of strikes last year compared to 2015 thanks to a project on labour relations that began in 2014, 

Hai Duong: Businesses discharge wastewater into irrigation canals

For more than a month, manufacturers based in Tan Hong industrial cluster in Hai Duong have discharged untreated wastewater into irrigation canals, polluting the section of the Bac Hung Hai irrigation system that passes through the region.

Schubert, Faure in Hanoi

The Vietnam National Symphony and Orchestra will perform a colourful and multi-faceted concert at the French Cultural Centre under the baton of conductor Kim Xuan Hieu and with soloists Pham Van Hieu and Tran Hien on April 26 & 27. 

Vietnam wins gold at Asian weightlifting champs

Tran Le Quoc Toan brought home a gold medal from the Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships, currently underway in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

An unkind cut? Or cutting edge beauty?

Beauty contests have expanded to include those for married woman. It is tough for older women to retain the looks they had when they were much younger. In this situation, would it be unfair for them to beautify themselves with cosmetic surgery?

Vietnam pocket two golds at Asian Grand Prix

Vietnamese athletes won two gold medals yesterday in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix 2017 in Jinhua, a prefecture-level city in central Zhejiang Province in eastern China.