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Vietnamese students win top honours at US science fair

 Four Vietnamese students have received top awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest international pre-college science competition.

People’s Artist Le Ngoc Canh – Vietnam’s leading folk dance researcher

 People’s Artist Le Ngoc Canh is known as Vietnam’s first dance professor. Over the past 70 years, Canh has carried out research on the folk dances of different areas of Vietnam and created dances of highly artistic value.

Library for disadvantaged children

 With special love and sympathy for the deprivation of ethnic minority children, 34-year-old Ngo Thi Ly of Kon Nhen village in Kon Tum province has turned her house into a library where children can read, study, and play.

Measures to reach 6.7% GDP growth target in 2017

 The government will not propose the National Assembly (NA) to adjust the economic growth target in its third session, which is scheduled to take place on May 22, 2017.

Refreshing breeze of transparency: a list of ineligible projects

 A list of all housing projects in which foreign organisations and individuals are not allowed to make purchases is being publicised by local authorities at the urgent bidding of the government.

Tentative banks slow hi-tech agricultural credit package

 There is a VND130-140 trillion ($5.72-$6.16 billion) credit package for hi-tech agricultural projects, however, few firms have been able to access it due to cautious banks.

Meet the Meyerowitzs: Hoffman, Stiller and Sandler seek highbrow laughs

 Ben Stiller once again plays Dustin Hoffman's son, this time alongside Adam Sandler in an intellectual comedy that Hoffman hopes audiences will find funny rather than just "interesting".

Mountainous district boosts homestay tourism

 When it comes to homestay tourism in Vietnam, one may think of the northwestern region. However, in the central province of Thanh Hoa, more attention has been paid to developing this service.

Buu Long - a special pagoda in HCM City

 Located in district 9 in Ho Chi Minh City, Buu Long pagoda shares common architecture with other pagodas in Southeast Asian countries, making it special among pagodas in Vietnam.

VN President lauds relations with Canada

 President Tran Dai Quang has expressed his appreciation for the relations between Vietnam and Canada, wishing to bolster the bilateral multi-dimensional cooperation in a more practical manner.

President Tran Dai Quang to visit Russia in June

 President Tran Dai Quang told Russian Minister of Economic Development Maksim Oreshkin at a meeting on May 21 that he will make a State visit to Russia in June at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.

Vietnam, Indonesia seek to achieve $10 billion trade

 Vietnam and Indonesia should actively prepare for the 7th session of the Joint Committee on Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation to seek more ways to achieve a trade value of $10 billion as set.

National Assembly convenes third plenary session

 The third plenary session of the 14th National Assembly opened in Hanoi on the morning of May 22 with the opening ceremony broadcast live on national television and radio channels.

'The Artist' director provokes Godard fans at Cannes with sacrilegious biopic

A biopic at Cannes about Jean-Luc Godard, the closest thing French cinema has to a living god, might be expected to be worthy and respectful, but "Redoubtable" is anything but - portraying the director as a childish, spiteful bore.

Car market to see changes with new regulations

The domestic market will open more widely to foreign cars as enterprises now will not be required to submit as many documents as they did before, as stipulated in Circular No 20/2011.

Technological products for the disabled help them live normal lives

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more technological products, many of them created by young people, have been invented in Vietnam to help the disabled. 

Vietnam’s education has changed, but progress remains slow

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has kicked off plans to reform the national educational system, but considerable progress has not been made.

Worries raised about fate of $80 million education project

Will the $80 million project on reforming general education be successful, or will it fail like other multi-trillion projects, including the classification of majors, VNEN and national program on foreign language teaching?

Mercury crosses border gates, affecting environment

VietNamNet Bridge - Acid deposition and photochemical smog have appeared in recent years, mostly in summer months when the weather is dry and hot, especially in large urban areas such as Hanoi and HCMC.

Sunny Nha Trang a new hotspot for art

 VietNamNet Bridge – For many, Nha Trang evokes images of the sea, or memories of holidays spent on the beach. Nha Trang has always been a popular destination for vacationing Vietnamese,