Saigontourist Holding Company on September 28 launched seven new HCM City river tours at Tan Cang tourist site in Binh Thanh District.

 A photo exhibition featuring the life and career of Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevarra will start tomorrow at the National for News located in Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Hanoi.

Cil Duin, a 41 year-old man from the K’Ho ethnic minority in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, has become the first of his people to receive a doctorate. 

 While loading goods for delivery to customers’ homes last Saturday, Tran Van Khuong, a delivery worker at Co.opmart Cà Mau, saw a woman’s handbag lying in a trolley. It had obviously been left behind by an absent-minded customer.

 Six famous female singers of different generations will perform at “The Master of Symphony 2017” concert to be held from November 10-12 at Hòa Bình Theatre in HCM City’s District 10.

 Many national historic relic sites in Hanoi have been encroached upon for parking areas under the lax management of local authorities, Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

 The central city of Đà Nẵng, in co-operation with Daegu City, South Korea will build a book park for the community in Hòa Cường in Hải Châu district next month.

 International-standard training programmes are being used at many universities in HCM City to help improve the quality of human resources, representatives of higher education institutions said at a conference held yesterday.

 In the middle of a forest in the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai, classes teaching reading and writing for under-50-year-olds have been held in the evenings for the past two years.

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 It is a risky, dangerous job with little protection and not much income, but many people in Ben Tre Province dive into rivers and search for scrap metal, sunk boats and other pieces of usable junk.

With traditional medicine still popular in Viet Nam, many breast cancer patients use unscientific and useless herbal cures to fight tumours, leaving them with more dangerous cancer and often severe side effects, 

Indian Ambassador P. Harish told VIR that the two countries are entering their economic primes, and that Indian firms are starting to consider Vietnam a good target for their investments.

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 Smart travel is being promoted to improve tourism throughout Viet Nam.

VN should promote IT products and services with high added value capable of deployment on a regional and global scale, said Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology Nguyen Thanh Hung.

The 13rd ASEAN CIO/CSO Awards 2017 honoured 26 leading(CIO) and CSO) with outstanding contributions in IT and information security in Viet Nam and Southeast Asia on Friday.

 All telecom operators in the country have reported big profits in the first nine months of this year.

 Chinese e-commerce group, Alibaba, on Thursday authorised Viet Nam’s Novaon Internet Corporation to be its reseller in the Viet Nam market.

 The government has decided to establish a board for private economic development research (IV Board).