The Ministry of Education and Training plans to allow schools at all levels to recruit teachers on the basis of their specific requirements, instead of recruiting based on targets set by the education sector.

According to Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, many public hospital nationwide have gradually wiped out fully-subsidised mechanisms and shifted to self-independent financial models.

In a meeting with cabinet members in Hanoi on May 22 to discuss the country’s 2017 growth scenarios, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged them to actively take measures to realize the growth target of 6.7 per cent this year.

Bank plans to increase charter capital from $387.69 million to $607.96 million via selling 500 million shares to existing shareholders.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in the southern province of Dong Thap have arrested a woman in connection with a human trafficking crime.

Residents of the southern Dong Nai Province’s Tan Phu District complain that at least 50 wells in their locality have been contaminated with petroleum, making the water inedible.

Jaap Van Norel of the Netherlands won the first ever Hoang Su Phi Mountain Bike Challenge 2017, which closed May 21 in the northeast province of Ha Giang.

The increasing intensity and devastation caused by natural disasters continues to pose an “enormous challenge” to the nation, causing severe losses of assets and human life, and threatens to derail Viet Nam’s development,

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of newly set up businesses in the real estate sector in the first four months of the year increased sharply compared with the same period last year. 

 Vietnam's Thang Long Water Puppetry Theatre will stage a number of special water puppet performances in Madrid, Spain from May 21-27.

When most Vietnamese high schoolers apply to college, they pick five target schools and hope for the best. This year one enterprising young student has decided to go one-beyond. Actually, he’s decided to go 43-beyond.

 U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius on Monday handed over six 45-foot Metal Shark patrol boats to the Vietnam Coast Guard in Quang Nam Province. 

 Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has admitted that the local car industry has failed to achieve the set localisation rate.

Bien Hoa Sugar JSC and Thanh Thanh Cong Tay Ninh Sugar JSC, two subsidiaries of the Thanh Thanh Cong Group, will take over the sugar business from Hoang Anh Gia Lai Agriculture International for VND1.33 trillion (US$59.1 million).

 Prices of sand for construction continue increasing in HCM City, following authorities’ orders to strictly monitor sand mining sites for illegal activity.

 Couleurs d’Asie by Réhahn – Saigon, a new gallery by Hội An-based photographer Réhahn, will open in HCM City on June 1.

 For an A-list star who, as she says herself, does not have to work, Nicole Kidman has been pretty busy ahead of Cannes, appearing in three movies and a TV series screening at the film festival.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hue City authorities have banned the construction of tall buildings near the city’s garden houses, considered an architectural legacy of the former imperial capital.

Immediately after announcing information about summer classes early in May, the 218 Ly Tu Trong extra education centre in HCM City was packed with hundreds of parents queuing till early in morning to sign their children up.

 At least 19 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in an explosion at the end of a concert by U.S. singer Ariana Grande in the English city of Manchester on Monday,