After earning a bachelor's degree in computer science from one of the best universities in Australia, the University of New South Wales, Nguyen Duy Lan received a doctorate in cryptography at the University of Wollongong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Owners of shrimp-breeding ponds pay VND50-200 million for electricity per hectare per crop, accounting for 10 per cent of their total cost of aquaculture production.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is a promising market for education investors, but it is difficult to invest in the sector because of unreasonable policies.

Deep in the rural district of Xenh Mua Ca, home to the Mong ethnic people in Lao Cai Province, lives a kind-hearted old man who plays a melodious panpipe that bewitches fellow villagers and passersby.

 Co-working spaces starting to pop up around Hanoi and HCMC wherever location permits.

 Clam farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tien Giang are finding innovative solutions to produce sustainable value chains in an aim to meet international standards.

 32 men’s football teams have registered to compete in the upcoming Asian Games (ASIAD 18) being held in Indonesia.

 Nguyen Trong Tuan and Pham Nguyen Quoc Trung, the selected 12 year old ambassadors from Vietnam, will be on their way to Russia on June 8th to participate in the 6th Gazprom Football for Friendship International Programme.

 At 3 am, when the sun is yet to stretch its rays above the horizon, many people have already gathered at Ben Do Fish Market to purchase deliciously fresh seafood.

 On May 30, Edelweiss, Switzerland's leading leisure airline, announced it will open a direct air route between HCM City and Zurich this November, serving two flights per week as part of the carrier’s plan to expand its flight network in Asia.

 The list of music stars performing at the 2nd ASEAN-Japan Music Festival 2018 has been announced online with Vietnamese singer, Dong Nhi, among the names who will light up the October event.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the UK Embassy in Vietnam held a bilateral meeting and announced the one-year review of implementing the Hanoi Statement on Illegal Wildlife Trade in Hanoi on May 31.

 Women who are overweight or obese but otherwise healthy are still at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, a large study suggests.

 Latest report from CBRE notes ongoing demand for co-working spaces in Hanoi and HCMC.

For travellers looking forward to their summer holidays, what to pack can be a source of stress. But did you know that taking an e-cigarette with you to countries such Thailand could land you with a fine - or even time in jail?

VietNamNet Bridge - Chinese brands some years ago attended a series of automobile exhibitions and ran large advertisement campaigns. But a short time later, they left Vietnam.

 Memory transfer has been at the heart of science fiction for decades, but it's becoming more like science fact.

 Three Vietnamese students will compete in the 2018 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship in the US.

As more foreign-owned businesses go public in Vietnam, VIR takes a look at how overseas firms have fared on the domestic stock market over the past decade.

 A woman in the southern province of Binh Thuan has admitted burying her new-born child alive.