VietNamNet Bridge – Almost 1,100 households in the northwestern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai, Son La and Lai Chau are in areas with a high risk of landslides, erosion and flash floods.

The Khmer people in Hon Dat District in Kien Giang have a long tradition of making ceramic products. Local clay is soft and elastic making ceramic products more durable. The village is most famous for making terra-cotta ovens.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For Sacombank Securities Company (SBS), merging with another brokerage is a fait accompli: its accumulated losses exceed its capital.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi traffic police have proposed a plan to the Ministry of Public Security to strictly handle cases of traffic law violations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – If you discover water leakage at home, you can now use an app on your smartphone to call the technicians and give them directions to your home.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue yesterday said poverty reduction policies should not be too excessive because that would eliminate people’s motivation to improve their lives.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A new project has been launched to teach Vietnamese ethnic minority children how to protect themselves against sexual harassment and assault by strangers in such tourist hotspots as Sa Pa.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It’s not yet lunch time but the Huong Lien Bun cha or grilled pork noodle shop on Le Van Huu Street, Hanoi, has already been swarmed by customers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has made efforts to improve the management of public assets but the task is made difficult by its massive scale and deficient database.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In an era when virtual space takes the throne, everyone’s activities can become public common property. As youngsters today find that Facebook is no longer a safe sanctuary for their privacy,

 VietNamNet Bridge – When rain comes, people in southeastern provinces will collect mushrooms in cashew, coffee and rubber farming areas.

The Government, speaking at a National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee meeting in Hanoi last week, proposed granting a special status for Danang City so that it can have more cash for development.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This year the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has launched a program promoting Vietnam as a paradise of sea and island for tourists.

 VietNamNet Bridge – American Dave Singleton has seen the world coaching a game he loves. And now he’s bringing that drive to help grow the game of basketball in the Mekong Delta.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government was urged to set up an agency specialising in policy advocacy in order to issue policies that fit the current situation of socio-economic development.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hague’s Arbitral Tribunal on Tuesday finally rendered its long-awaited landmark ruling on the case of the Philippines versus China over claims to the East Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fifty per cent of Vietnamese students suffer from short-sightedness, a survey conducted by the Central Eye Hospital has revealed.

VietNamNet Bridge – Statistics conducted by the Department of Oversea Training under the Ministry of Education and Training, the number of Vietnamese students going abroad for studying was 120,000 in 2015,

The sao la is one of the world’s rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine found only in the Truong Son Mountain Range. The world marks July 9th as Sao la Day.

Composer Ngo Hong Quang is known for his projects that combine Vietnamese traditional music and western one. He is doing a masters course in music composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.