VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 14 million spam messages are frustrating phone users across the country every day despite efforts by information and telecommunication authorities to combat them.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Industry and Trade on Sunday (Dec 25) said it has received a resignation letter from Vu Quang Hai, Deputy General Director of Sai Gon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Company (Sabeco).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Hong Truong, Deputy Minister of Transport, speaks to the newspaper Hai Quan (Customs) about his ministry’s challenges in applying the National Single Window to simplify administrative procedures.

VietNamNet Bridge – Small paper producers with an annual capacity of 10,000-20,000 tons will face more difficulties in 2018 due to stricter regulations on wastewater treatment and harsher competition from big companies.

It was during a trekking trip to the central Quang Binh Province in 2014 that I first spotted wooden houses with tanks under them. This November I realised that these very houses had saved thousands of lives when the region flooded.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many sectors have built long-term development plans, but after a period of implementing those plans, they must adjust them to be suitable with reality. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tourism and travel are expected to contribute substantially to growth in trade in services and total export growth of Vietnam in the coming years,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Last week, Ha Noi municipal authorities asked the Standing Committee of the National Assembly to consider a number of special financial mechanisms for infrastructure development of the capital city,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam lacks control over non-fired brick quality despite the large number of such bricks produced in the country over the last five year,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Plans to scrap the minimum number of points required for university enrollment in Viet Nam has highschool students cheering, but teachers concerned.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese striker Le Cong Vinh will be appointed deputy chairman of HCM City FC, according to Chairman of HCM City Football Federation Tran Anh Tu.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tan Lao Lo, accused of murdering four people, including three children in Bat Xat District in the northern mountain province of Lao Cai,  was sentenced to death yesterday by the provincial People’s Court.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thailand will meet Yokohama in the final match of the International U-21 Football Tournament, to be held in HCM City tomorrow. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Secretariat of the Party Central Committee has banned all provinces and cities in the country from displaying fireworks during the Lunar New Year holiday (Tet),

 VietNamNet Bridge – The tourism industry has experienced a successful year in 2016 with total revenue estimated at VND400 trillion, international visitor arrivals at over 10 million and domestic tourists at 62 million.

A “Happiness Concert 2017” will be presented to music lovers at Hanoi Opera House on January 11 featuring masterpieces of famous composers, Otto Nicolai, Johann Strauss II, Fritz Kreisler, Johannes Brahms and Maurice Ravel

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Match Play and Professional Golf Championship will be organised from December 28 to 31 at BRG Ruby Tree Golf Resort with the participation of 130 golfers in Hai Phong.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health has denied the existence of 10 so-called cancer villages, as their rates of cancer were found to be no higher than the national average. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Major changes in the bus routes from the capital are to go into effect on January 2, said the deputy director of the city’s Transport Department, Ha Huy Quang. The changes are intended to reduce congestion.

For many years not, the HCM City administration, which governs the nation’s largest city with a population of more than 8.5 million people that is forecast to increase rapidly, has been grappling with the problem of traffic congestion.