The huge cost of Vietnam's much-needed infrastructure development means the private sector must become more involved, especially foreign investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Our first glimpse of Hai Hau District in the northern province of Nam Dinh was roadsides full of flowers. In recent years, the land along the inter-village roads in the coastal district has been planted with flowers

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VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese are some of Southeast Asia’s biggest buyers of luxury cars.

 Tran Hai Quang, a 28-year-old former student of the Foreign Trade University, has earned initial success after two years since the launch of his startup project, Clingme, a free app to facilitate shopping for consumers.

Mineral exploitation may have contributed to economic development of northern mountainous Ha Giang Province over the past years but it has also caused serious problems to the environment and social life of local people, 

 Trung Nam BT 1547 Co Ltd, which has been carrying out a major flood tide control project worth nearly VND10 trillion in southern HCMC, has informed city authorities of a suspension of construction work.

March 2018 was a big month for LGBTQ visibility in Vietnam. Singer Nguyen Huong Giang was crowned Miss International Queen at the world’s largest and most prestigious pageant for transgender women. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The heavily polluted Dong Thanh rubbish dump in HCM City has been converted into an orchard, drastically improving the environment in the surrounding neighbourhood.

Manufacturing and processing continues to outpace other sectors in attracting foreign investment.

 The rainy season in the southern region this year is expected to have temperatures 0.4 to 0.8 degrees Celsius above average, according to the Southern Hydro-Meteorological Station.

 Financial and managerial autonomy for public hospitals has yielded positive changes, but district hospitals have seen limited benefits and face new challenges.

 Director of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department in central Quang Nam province dismissed some local forest rangers for their failure to prevent deforestation, which came to light recently.

 Leading business groups in the Asia Pacific region recently set up a comprehensive cooperation programme called M2030 that aims to raise awareness about and funds to combat malaria in the region.

 A special task force has been set up to strengthen social order and security at transit points and in buses during peak hours in the capital city of Hanoi.

 The northern localities have so far this year planted 40,720 hectares of forest, declining 6.1 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

More than 5 billion USD is needed to build a railway linking the Lao capital of Vientiane with Vung Ang seaport in Vietnam, according to research conducted under a technical support project for the railway’s feasibility study.

The complex of Dien Bien Phu battlefield in the northeastern province of Dien Bien features 45 relic sites, including eight putting into operation to serve tourists.

 Wholesale petrol traders should make more efforts to raise the market share of bio-fuel E5 in the country, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Do Thang Hai.

 Vietnam’s first field hospital has been all set for the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in a couple of months, said Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh on May 4.