VietNamNet Bridge – Social services need to improve to help curb child labour in Viet Nam and reduce its negative impacts on the country’s youth.

A stone piece resembling antique earring samples belonging to the ancient Vietnamese Sa Huynh civilisation has been found in the central province of Thua Thien- Hue.

 The enforcement of the law on tobacco harm reduction should be promoted in ministries, branches and local authorities to reduce dangers from smoking and lower the death rate caused by smoking, said Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.

 The Prime Minister on May 28 issued an official dispatch urging urgent actions to curb and prevent illegal operation of Vietnamese fishing boats and fishermen in foreign waters.

 Belgian cueist Eddy Merckx won the title at the World Cup 3-Cushion 2017 in Ho Chi Minh City on May 28. 

 The Mekong Delta region, home to about 18 million people, is Vietnam’s largest agriculture hub. However, the region faces serious erosion in river and sea banks due to climate change and human factors.

 Vietnamese wood companies will not exploit, transport, process, produce or trade in illegal wood and wooden products, according to the Viet Nam Wood and Forest Association (VIFORES).

 E-commerce in Viet Nam is more developed than some Southeast Asian countries and is poised to expand in coming years, according to a market research company.

 A resident of central Quang Binh Province has discovered thousands of human bone pieces that are believed to be of the victims of massacres by the French colonists.  The resident was digging the ground for building a home foundation.

 Hosts HCM City topped the table in the National Muay Thai Championships, which concluded on May 27.

Viet Nam’s Vietinbank were headed home after losing to Japan’s Hisamitsu Springs in the Asian Women’s Club Samruk Kazyna Volleyball Championship in Kazakhstan on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ly Hoang Nam failed to progress in the Singapore F1 Men’s Futures in both the singles and doubles events.

 Lai Ly Huynh lost his only match in the National Chinese Chess Team Championships’ blitz event, but it did not stop him from retaining the men’s title on May 28 in Danang City.

 Foreign arrivals in Vietnam continued to surge in May, and the hospitality sector in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City already has plans to prepare for more.

 Pu Mat National Park, 120 km from Vinh city in Nghe An province, is the largest forest in north-central Vietnam and a world nature reserve.

 Since the advent of mass media, books no longer have a monopoly on entertainment. But there are still people who are quietly passionate about collecting books and newspapers.

 With abundant natural resources, spectacular landscape, and luxuriant vegetation, the Mekong River Delta boasts enormous potential for ecological tourism.

 In the first four months of the year, the trade deficit was at quite high at around US$2.8 billion.

Industry leaders have called on distraught and anxious pepper farmers to remain calm and refrain from selling their produce at low prices, saying the current price plunge is most likely a fleeting phenomenon. 

 Diagnoses of occupational diseases are on the rise in Vietnam and several new occupations have been found to cause respiratory diseases and deafness, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).