Residents have welcomed efforts to move electrical wires and telecommunication cables underground in downtown HCM City.

 Hanoi faces a shortage of high school teachers that can teach in English, requiring universities to train more students adept at the language to meet demand.

 With the number of apartment dwellers in the ward growing, children, especially in the Linh Đàm urban area, are more disadvantaged than those from other areas. The number of uneducated children here is higher than other areas. 

 Vietnam should develop an integrated system of public transport as part of measures to ensure sustainable transport development, according to experts.

 Developing renewable energy sources is more urgent than ever to meet demand for power, ensure sustainable growth and cope with climate change in the country, experts said yesterday at a meeting held in HCM City.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his spouse will pay an official visit to Japan and attend the 23rd International Conference on the Future of Asia in Tokyo from June 4-8.

The HCMC People’s Committee has instructed relevant authorities to develop software that will allow the public to obtain land-use plans on their mobile phones as a means to avoid the land “fever” that occurs periodically.

 Due to insufficient management, hundreds of hectares of forest in Gia Lai province have been illegally converted to domestic housing and agricultural land.

 The export value of agricultural, forestry and aquatic products reached 13.7 billion USD in the first five months of 2017, a year-on-year increase of 9.5 percent.

 A recent report by the World Gold Council shows that Vietnam remains one of the countries with the highest gold consumption in the world in the first quarter of this year.   

The Ministry of Industry and Trade will continue to work with large foreign distributors to promote exports of Vietnamese products.

During an official visit to China by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam, the Chinese Ministry of Agricultureexpressed interest in opening official channels for Vietnamese pork to enter China’s market.

 The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, in coordination with the Hanoi People’s Committee, on May 27 launched the action month for children 2017.

The Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Maritime Bank) has failed to get approval from shareholders to trade its shares on the stock exchanges.

 Petrolimex enjoys huge benefits through treasury stock sale, UPCoM gets new classification rules, Short-term deposit rates forecast to reduce in 2017, VN FDI inflow lags through May, Coal exports surge in four months

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite the ‘zero-dong tours’ and a number of problems caused by Chinese travelers, Vietnam is still preparing to receive travelers from China, a large market with great potential.

VietNamNet Bridge – This June audiences in Hanoi and HCM City will enjoy two hiphop shows.

The art of portraiture flourished in Hanoi in the 1960s with around 400 portrait artists estimated to be in the city. Half of a century has passed and the number has dropped to under 10. One of them is Nguyen Bao Nguyen.

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 Visiting the Xo Dang ethnic minority group in the Central Highlands, tourists are most impressed by a huge Rong house built in the center of the village. It’s the sacred venue of all villagers.