VietNamNet Bridge – As a mother of two, 32-year-old Nguyen Bich Lien in Ha Noi’s Hoang Mai District says working outside and doing chores exhausts her.

Although he has retired for more than a decade, 68-year-old Nguyen Van Hoi – a former teacher in the central province of Thanh Hoa – is still at Dong Ve Ward’s office every day.

 A newly found flaw in widely used networking software leaves tens of thousands of computers potentially vulnerable to an attack similar to that caused by WannaCry, 

The cliché "not a dry eye in the house" summed up the ending of "The Florida Project", as the movie's two young stars - no older than six when they shot it - got a standing ovation at the premier and wiped away each others' tears.

VietNamNet Bridge - What has caused the reverse of the exchange rate despite negative economic information released recently? The strong inflow of foreign portfolio investment (FPI).

 The Vietnam Festival 2017 will take place at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo on June 10 and 11, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

 HCM City authorities have approved a pilot project to operate electric cars in downtown HCM City. The city-based company Kingtour will operate 20 electric cars, each carrying from eight to 14 passengers, on three routes.

 Visitors to HCM City’s Ho Thi Ky flower market in District 10 can easily find many Vietnamese people of Cambodian descent selling mainly Cambodian specialties at what is known informally as the Cambodian Market.

 The 2017 Nha Trang Sea Festival, with the theme Extending the Circle of Friendship, will be held in the central province of Khanh Hoa from June 10 to 13 with 50 arts, cultural and sporting activities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four soloists from Japan and South Korea will perform in a special concert “The Art of Chamber Music” at HCM City Opera House on May 28.

The family of late Japanese archaeologist Nishimura Masanari, an expert on Vietnamese archaeology, has donated his entire library – in all, 7,000 items – to the National University of Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four children in Phu Yen Province’s Son Hoa District drowned on Wednesday while bathing in the water flow of a nearby hydropower plant, 

 Vietnamese FPT Corp and German Siemens are expected to sign a strategic co-operation agreement on digital human resources training in July.

 Fitch Ratings on Wednesday revised the outlooks on the long-term issuer default ratings (IDRs) of three State-owned Vietnamese banks – Vietinbank, Vietcombank and Agribank – to positive from stable.

 The total value of the export turnover earned by foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises as of May 15 reached US$49.4 billion, accounting for 71 per cent of the nation’s export turnover.

 The huge volume of cheap sugar smuggled in from Thailand is among the key reasons for high inventories at sugar factories, according to the Viet Nam Sugar and Sugarcane Association.

 A forum on “Viet Nam’s consumer trend in 2017” was held in Ha Noi on Thursday to discuss changes in consumption habits and how to promote the sustainable development of consumer goods in Viet Nam.

 The Viet Nam Trade Promotion Agency held a workshop in the capital on Thursday on trade promotion to the Middle East and Africa, which followed a conference on South American trade promotion on Wednesday.

 Four Vietnamese firms were named in the Forbes’ 2017 Global 2000 list of the world’s biggest and most powerful public companies.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has issued a decision to conduct a second review of anti-dumping duties on imported cold-rolled stainless steel.