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Water puppetry director portrays friends through art

 VietNamNet Bridge – When Thanh Chuong looks at his portrait painted by fellow artist Chu Luong, he personally feels his other self, who may have wandered somewhere or existed inside him but he hasn't noticed.

HCM City to build observation stations

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to build 27 automatic and 227 semiautomatic observation stations over the next five years to check on water surface, underground water and air pollution.

Vietnam told to grow rice in Cambodia to export to the EU

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese businesses are considering growing rice in Cambodia for export to the EU, since the country enjoys preferential policy in exporting farm produce to the market.

Ao Dai around the world

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ao Dai Around the World is a non-profit community project which was started by a young Vietnamese girl Thuy Nguyen who has a great passion for her national costume.

Banks sell non-performing loans to reduce bad debt

VietNamNet Bridge – Commercial banks offloaded a large volume of non-performing loans (NPLs) to the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC) in 2015 to reduce the bad debt rate to below 3 per cent. 

Hoi An tailors help promote Vietnam to the world

Tailoring services in Hoi An are fast and cheap, one of the reasons why so many domestic and foreign tourists want to visit the ancient town. While exploring the town and sampling its specialties, visitors can drop in at any tailor’s shop

Leading theatre to perform Hamlet

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam National Drama Theatre will perform global masterpiece Hamlet at Victoria Theatre in Singapore on March 25.

Big investment incentives only benefit foreign investors: experts

VietNamNet Bridge - Only foreign-invested automobile manufacturers can benefit from the current investment incentives, while Vietnamese automobile cannot grow, experts say.

Update puts FDI approvals in 2015 at US$24 billion

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fresh foreign direct investment approvals in Vietnam last year amounted to US$24.1 billion, up from US$22.76 billion announced more than two months ago, .

Voluntary American doctors offer free services

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four-hundred people filled the auditorium of Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital last Saturday, listening raptly to advice given by American doctors about guided methods of intervention for their autistic children.

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son wins Int’l HDBank Cup matches

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local title favourite Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son successfully won the first two matches of the sixth HDBank Cup International Open Chess 2016 - Masters Tournament yesterday in HCM City.

Photos feature Vietnamese ethnic women’s beauties

 VietNamNet Bridge – Women of the 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam all have their own characteristics and costumes, which help diversify and make the beauty of each ethnic group more attractive.

People line up to get wealth SIM cards of cellphones

 VietNamNet Bridge – People queued up for lucky mobile-phone SIM cards from local telecoms company Vinaphone in the north and the south of Vietnam on March 7.

Finnish minister seeks economic cooperation with Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – Education, Cleantech and ICT have been on the top of the agenda during the visit of Finland’s Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Lenita Toivakka between March 6 and 11 in Viet Nam.  

Saigon's unused water towers to be demolished

 VietNamNet Bridge – Seven unused water towers in HCM City will be demolished, according to the municipal water supply authority.

First non-stop flight from Sweden to Phu Quoc Island begins

 VietNamNet Bridge – Phu Quoc Island welcomed the first arrival of the premier nonstop flight on a B-787 Dreamliner from Sweden yesterday, March 8.

Ignoring warnings, businesses still harbor ‘macadamia dream’

The Vietnam Macadamia Association has been officially set up under a decision by the Ministry of Interior Affairs. LienVietPost Bank and Him Lam JSC were two major businesses lobbying for the association.

The sorrow of the forests

VietNamNet Bridge - Local authorities and investors who are developing road and hydropower projects have promised to plant forests to offset the trees they fell. However, they have failed to keep their word.

Gloomy future for VN steel industry

VietNamNet Bridge - Steel mills now have to struggle to compete with imports from China. If the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) does not take temporary safeguard measures, a series of enterprises will go bankrupt.

LGBT recognition needs more effort

 VietNamNet Bridge – There is still a gap between the laws protecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) rights and public opinion towards LGBT folks in Viet Nam,