Underground water in the Ly Son Islands, 30km off the coast of Quang Ngai Province, has become seriously salinised in the early dry season this year – the worst in the last three – as demand for water has exceeded current underwater reserves.

Hundreds of Vietnamese and foreign scientists gathered in Nha Trang City in Khanh Hoa province in Vietnam in late September 2018 to announce Vietnam had successfully produced vaccines against seasonal flu and H5N1 influenza.

Ambassador of Armenia to Vietnam Raisa Vardanyan was honoured on April 5 with the “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” insignia of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO).

New regulations on tontine interest rates, registration fee prices of houses and land, and internal auditing shall take force from April, 2019.

Vietnamese Embassy in Seoul has opened a hotline +821020196869 to provide necessary assistance for Vietnamese nationals in the Republic of Korea (RoK) following eruption of forest fire in Goseong, Gangwon Province.

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan concluded her working visit to the European Parliament and left Brussels, Belgium, for Doha, Qatar, on April 6 morning to attend the 140th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Vietnam treasures ties with Qatar, considering the country an important partner in the region, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said.

Municipal authorities began planning to move universities from Hanoi’s inner districts to the suburbs about 20 years ago but up to now, few university relocation projects have been carried out and none are complete.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Underground water in the Ly Son Islands, 30km off the coast of Quang Ngai Province, has become seriously salinised in the early dry season this year

U.S. magazine Vogue has named the 16-island archipelago Con Dao a hidden and dreamy destination to explore. The magazine has also included the place in a list of nine best paradise islands in the world to escape to this year.

The aquaculture sector makes up nearly 10 bln USD in exports each year but the sector is facing several challenges, including the threat of completely losing markets for Vietnamese tra fish products.

Visiting the Mekong River Delta provinces during these days, tourists can see the excitement and joy on the faces of the Khmer people as they clean, renew and decorate their houses to welcome the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay Tet Festival.

Tra fish exports were worth a record high of 2.2 billion USD in 2018, 26.4 percent higher than in 2017 and representing a breakthrough for Vietnam’s trafish industry. 

Vietnam's sitting tug-of-war game was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

 Roast Pork is not only a speciality of Lang Son but also an inevitable gift between two families in a wedding of the Tay (and Nung) ethnic group.

 Visiting the Mekong River Delta provinces during these days, tourists can see the excitement and joy on the faces of the Khmer people as they clean, renew and decorate their houses to welcome the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay Tet Festival.

 Standard &Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings has announced that it has raised Vietnam’s sovereign rating to ‘BB’ from ‘BB-‘, with a stable outlook.

For several years, the Da Nang Museum in the city of the same name has conducted extracurricular activities to nurture curiosity for history and culture among local pupils.

Many displaced by the Ban Ve hydroelectric power project in the central province of Nghe An have for years abandoned the resettlement homes built for them and returned to their old land.

VietNamNet Bridge - International institutions have predicted high GDP growth rates for Vietnam in 2019, but do not expect them to be more than 7 percent.