Hanoi and HCM City authorities have vowed to shut down the unlicensed nurseries, or the household run classes which fail to meet the requirements on safety for babies. But this means that the children from poor families would have nowhere to go.

 VietNamNet Bridge - To go to school on time, children in Dong Mam village in Son Hai commune, Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province have to get up from 5am and row on the lake of Cam Son, which is 80m deep.

 Andy Dang Quang Anh won a silver medal at the Kids Golf World Championships in Malaysia yesterday.

Though the quality of care service and meals are not commensurate with the high tuitions, parents still have to bring their children to private nursery schools because state owned schools have been overloaded.

 Hanoi police confiscate smuggled animal organs; Man accused of stealing from poor; Operations of leather tannery suspended for environment pollution; Excessive pressure on children to study

More than two-thirds of young children in developing nations could identify at least one cigarette brand logo, according to a U.S. study released Monday that examined the reach of tobacco marketing to five and six year olds in countries

An excavator bit deeply into the ground, causing a gap at the foot of a wall, which made it collapse. Four boys standing nearby were buried. Two died on the spot and two others died on the way to the hospital.

Some international nursery schools charge nearly VND10 million a month. At other schools, parents only have to pay VND30,000 per day, including the expenses for the meals. However, the parents all feel anxious about the quality of nursery schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Ha Giang has many fairs and you can visit such fairs every day. Going to fairs is very exciting because fairs are the vivid and sharpest images of the daily lives of people in Ha Giang.

 Reducing the number of unnecessary and high-dose computed tomography in children could lower their overall lifetime risk of future imaging-related cancers by up to 62 percent, a U.S. study said Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With the summer holidays fast approaching, parents are thinking about how to arrange a productive summer vacation for their kids.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Bathing in the Sre Pork hydroelectric reservoir after school, five sixth grade students were swept into a deep hole but only one kid could escape.

The Ministry of Health will make the decision to use Quinvaxem or replace it by another vaccine in late June, said Professor Nguyen Tran Hien, Chairman of the National Immunization Program.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Aust-Viet Junior Chef Challenge will be held in HCMC from June 17-21 as part of the celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and Vietnam,

VietNamNet Bridge - The mother locked her children in the house for five days and then threatened to use a sickle to kill a child. Twenty-five policemen broke the door to rescue the kids.

Hanoi’s traffic police began imposing fines on motorcycle drivers who carry children of over six years old without a helmet on the morning of April 8. While the parents were busy with the fines, their kids were taken to school by police officers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s traffic police officers will begin imposing fines on motorcycle drivers carrying kids without a helmet from April 8.

VietNamNet Bridge - In the early days of the lunar year, visitors can see a lot of children standing in front of Buddhist temples to beg.

VietNamNet Bridge - In the cold of 8 degrees C, when primary students in cities are permitted to stay at home and people wear big coats and try to stay inside, there are unclothed kids despite the cold.