VietNamNet Bridge – A knowledge hub to support climate change action was launched in Ha Noi on Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will soon complete policies, mechanisms and a national standard system to develop organic farming in the future, 

Doctors of Ha Noi-based Viet Nam-Germany Hospital successfully conducted a liver transplant on a patient in very critical condition, the most serious case in the hospital’s history.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has decided to establish a team to inspect the use of forest land for other purposes in Phu Yen Province.

Khoang Lang Vuong (The Square Moment of Silence), an art exhibit commemorating late Vietnamese painter and photographer Nguyen Lai opened at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City’s Department of Transport has proposed opening eight pedestrian streets in the downtown area.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Southern provinces and cities have drawn up a plan for prevention of avian influenza A(H7N9) as requested by the Prime Minister, following several outbreaks in China.

HCM City Urban Environment Company workers spent Tuesday morning collecting dead fish and spreading chemicals to avoid possible pollution on the city’s Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Canal.

Hau dong is a popular ritual in Vietnamese spiritual culture. It is one of the main rituals of dao Mau, the worship of mother goddesses recently identified by UNESCO as an intangible world cultural heritage. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Young film directors are expected to shine in the annual 2016 Golden Kite Awards organised by the Viet Nam Cinematography Association in HCM City.

The Ministry of Transport on Monday slashed toll by half at two toll stations on the Ben Thuy Bridge for residents from some areas in Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the E De people, no meal is really complete without a fruit that is a rare ingredient in other cuisines – ca dang – bitter eggplant.

Living in a small alley with no name on Hang Chieu Street, one of Ha Noi’s old streets, Nguyen Thi Nga (not her real name) and 11 other people in her family share a nine-square-metre room and an attic.

Researchers have found traces of a cemetery dating back 3,000 years at a cave in a karst mountain in Thanh Tuong Commune, Na Hang District of the northern province of Tuyen Quang.

Viet Nam has targeted turning tourism into the spearhead economic sector of the northwest region by 2030, deputy head of the Northwest Steering Committee Hau A Lenh said yesterday.

At about 5pm on the last day of January, 24-year-old Nguyen Duc Hien from An Giang Province jumped off a fishing vessel as it was getting ashore near Cat Lo Port in Vung Tau City.

Can Tho City in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta hopes to boost tourism with a clutch of cultural and tourism events in the next three months, according to its Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

All 15 shops and business centres dedicated to serving only Chinese tourists in Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province were closed by the local people’s committee, according to online newspaper zing.vn.

Three men involved in an online soccer gambling ring that engaged in transactions worth some VND900 billion (US$39.6 million) were recently arrested by the police in central Nghe An Province.

Project investors, contractors and sub-contractors of a dredging project in the Cua Dai Estuary are suspected of “serious violations” with a large volume of sand gone “missing.”