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Dalat – Where mulberry leaves become silk gowns

 VietNamNet Bridge – Driving away from daily hustle in Saigon, we arrive in Dalat in a rainy morning. The resort town is where busy people come find peace and tranquility,

Social News 5/10

Vietnam, EU share experience in ensuring human rights, AFD-funded project helps localities adapt to climate change, Urgent inter-country water problem: experts, Ambulance collides with tanker; 1 dead, 4 injured

Will Vietnam decide to use "golden share" to protect company brands?

VietNamNet Bridge - The government is striving to receive the best prices and protect Vietnamese brands as it implements its plan of divesting itself from big state-owned enterprises. 

Change remittances policy: experts

 Viet Nam needs more comprehensive policies to direct remittance to production and business, experts said at a conference late last week.


Hanoi streets to be covered in greenery

VietNamNet Bridge – Green trees have been mentioned in poetry, painting, music and have became a special feature of Ha Noi. 

VietGap still not very attractive to domestic seafood businesses

Although the Vietnamese Good Agriculture Practice (VietGap) was issued for seafood breeding five years ago, enterprises are not enthusiastic about using this standard as a qualification for their product exports. 


German banks can enable European FTA investment

 German banks are keeping watch on the developing economic relations between Vietnam and Germany, in advance of European investments set to pour into the country when then Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) takes effect.

Haute Couture fashion at Vietnam fashion week

VietNamNet Bridge – Senior fashion designer Minh Hanh and young designer Duy Nguyen showed their creativity through their Haute Couture collections, which were introduced at the Vietnam Spring-Summer Fashion Week 2017.

Vietnam treasures defence ties with Thailand

 Vietnam attaches importance to defence cooperation with Thailand, and the Ministry of Defence will create favourable conditions for Thai military attachés to fulfil their duties in Vietnam, said a Vietnamese senior officer. 

Vietnam Mountain Bike Marathon scheduled for November

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Mountain Bike Marathon, the country’s toughest mountain bike stage race, is scheduled to kick off on November 4-6 in Sa Pa in northern mountainous Lao Cai Province. 

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 4/10

MoIT refuses to move polyester import tax, Vinacomin's member plans for trading on UPCoM, Foreign sector moves to takeover Vietnam property market, Joint effort proposed to combat transfer pricing

A romantic northern village in pictures

VietNamNet Bridge – Let’s visit a rural village in Ha Tay, a suburban district of Hanoi.

Missing Van Gogh paintings turn up in Italian mafia country house

 Two stolen Vincent Van Gogh paintings worth millions of euros were found in an Italian country house belonging to an alleged mafia drug smuggler, police said on Friday, 14 years after they disappeared in a daring heist in Amsterdam.

Zika vaccine race spurred by crisis and profit potential

 The race to find protection against the Zika virus is fueled by something often missing from tropical disease research: the potential for big profit.

20 movies to be released this month

 VietNamNet Bridge - Blockbusters “Doctor Strange", "Inferno"with Tom Hanks and "Jack Reacher 2"with Tom Cruise will be released this month.

Google expected to unveil new phones at San Francisco event

Alphabet Inc's Google is expected to unveil new smartphones at an event on Tuesday, the company's latest effort to sell consumers on a Google-branded device and to challenge Apple Inc at the high end of the market. 

Most businesses willing to spend money on patents overseas

VietNamNet Bridge - While it costs VND1 million only to obtain a patent in Vietnam, millions of dollars are needed to obtain a patent overseas.

More than 6,000 migrants plucked from sea in a single day, 22 dead

About 6,055 migrants were rescued and 22 found dead on the perilous sea route to Europe on Monday, one of the highest numbers in a single day, 

Ben Thanh night market

 VietNamNet Bridge - Ben Thanh Market is a famous place for long-timeresidents in HCM City as well as visitors to the country’s most bustling hub. 

Statue stolen from ancient pagoda

A 19-century Buddhist statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes — a treasure of the Me So Pagoda in the northern province of Hung Yen’s Me So Commune, Van Giang District, was stolen