Tsutomu Takebe, special advisor to the Japan-Viet Nam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance, talks to Viet Nam News about the potentials for agriculture co-operation between the two countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Agriculture Nguyen Xuan Cuong talks to newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) about the role of enterprises in agriculture restructuring.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a September 18 announcement, the National Museum of Nature released new details on a shocking discovery of prehistoric corpses in the central highlands.

Local authorities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have asked the Nguyen Family Committee to voluntarily remove the grave of a king’s wife to provide land for the ongoing construction of a parking lot.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi’s Old Quarter will host the opening of the traditional Mid-Autumn festival on Friday.

The Government Inspectorate of Viet Nam has found a series of violations by the Ministry of Transport and the Quy Nhon provincial administration during the period of 2010-15 in regards to the equitisation process of the Quy Nhon Port.

HCM City aims to build more than 90,000 accommodations for workers which would include 15 projects for low-cost apartments and social housing accommodations for workers on a total area of 47ha.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Controversial skin-care ingredients such as hydroquinone and corticosteroid are found in skin-lightening creams that have been extensively promoted online in Vietnam over the last few years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of hand, foot and mouth infections has surged at schools in HCM City, especially at kindergartens, 

Four Vietnamese nationals appeared in court on Tuesday accused of stealing SG$26,000 (US$19,000) worth of women’s clothes - the biggest haul by a shoplifting syndicate in Singapore to date. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A flash flood triggered by heavy downpours has submerged schools in Yen Tinh Commune, Tuong Duong District in the central province of Nghe An.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the central province of Quang Tri, three men work together to take care of the afterlife of aborted fetuses in the province.

HCM City People’s Committee is calling for investment in administrative and simulation centres that would forecast socio-economic strategies as part of a smart urban area project being carried out from 2017 to 2025.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of special cultural and art events will take place in France this month to mark the 45th anniversary of Viet Nam - France diplomatic ties.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The national poverty rate would fall to less than an estimated six per cent by the end of this year, which would mark a 1.0-1.3 per cent decrease compared to last year, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Portraits of Hanoians by painter Le Nang Hien (1921-2014) are on display in Hanoi.

In Vietnamese cuisine, nem rán (fried spring rolls) and nem cuốn tôm thịt (fresh shrimp and pork rolls) are among the most popular and tasty of the hundreds of local dishes that residents and foreigners alike enjoy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is having a headache removing illegal residents from the citadel’s walls located in its municipal city of Hue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two designs by the HCM City–based company Tropical Space won awards at the Architects Regional Council Asia (Arcasia) Awards for Architecture 2018 in Tokyo last week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Construction work on eastern section of the North-South Expressway will start next year, and is scheduled to finish by 2021, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) announced yesterday.