With the adoption of cutting-edge technology at a comparatively low cost, Professor Mai Trong Khoa - Director of the Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Center, at Bach Mai Hospital - and colleagues have saved many cancer patients

 VietNamNet Bridge - Bien Ho (Sea Lake), a freshwater lake to the north of Pleiku City of Gia Lai Province, which is 900 meters above sea level and covers 230 hectares, is called the “gem” of Pleiku.

 Vietnam-Australia trade booming, Regulations on eco-industrial parks to be issued, RoK investors pour more money into Vietnamese stocks, Over 300 businesses to join online shopping day, Rice shipments drop in nine months

VietNamNet Bridge - After announcing the first live show in her career, HCM City’s pop singer Dong Nhi has received more good news as she will be the representative of Vietnam at the MTV Awards.

VietNamNet Bridge – Phan Xuan Dung, chairman of the National Assembly Committee for Science, Technology and Environment,  talks  to  Thời báo kinh tế Việt Nam about the country’s science and technology level.

 FDI inflows hit $16.43 billion in nine months

Vietnam plans to launch a new commodity exchange in the fourth quarter of this year, according to a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Singapore-listed logistics firm Straits Financial Group and the Vietnam Commodities Exchange. 

 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has spoken to local media about measures to boost agricultural restructuring to further develop the sector. 

Forbes Vietnam magazine announced the best 50 companies on Vietnam’s stock market in 2016 on September 29.

Sections of Sai Gon Bridge, one of the five bridges of metro route No. 1 Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien in Ho Chi Minh City, were joined on September 30.

Autonomy for universities has given them more control over courses and financing, though the latter comes with issues.

VietNamNet Bridge - Unlike two years ago, when Vietnam witnessed a wave of foreign direct investment (FDI) in textile & garment projects, the capital flow into the sector has slowed down.

 The 53 ethnic minority groups in Vietnam had a total population of 13.39 million, accounting for 14.6 percent of the country’s population (91.71 million) as by July 1, 2015, a survey revealed. 

A road map for turning Phu Quoc island offshore southern Kim Giang Province into a smart city was unveiled on the island on September 29.

 Russia’s globally-rated universities made a fact-finding tour of Vietnam from September 25-30 to seek enrolments, student exchange programmes, and connections with local partners.

Vietnamese women spend over five hours doing so-called “no-name” work such as cooking, cleaning and childcare - about 2-2.5 hours more than men. 

Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh has agreed to spend $135 million in advance on compensating residents in the four central provices for damage from the recent environmental incident caused by Hung Nghiep Formosa.

 Vietnam and the Philippines issued a Joint Statement on the official visit on September 28-29 of President of the Republic of Philippines Rodrigo Roa Duterte to Vietnam.

The Presidents of Vietnam and the Philippines have pledged to further strengthen political and diplomatic cooperation via regular exchange of all-level visits and boosting ties on the Party, government, State, National Assembly.

  President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Vu Xuan Hong presented the insignia “For peace and friendship among nations” to outgoing Japanese Ambassador Fukada Hiroshi in Hanoi on September 29.