VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is hoping to boost its renewable energy production, especially wind and solar energy, to more than 10.7 per cent of total generation by 2030, up from the previously planned 6 per cent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Newly manufactured assembled and imported cars are obliged to meet European exhaust emission level 4 standards (Euro 4) from January 1, 2017 in order to be eligible to register in Viet Nam.

"After a series of incidents, the environment has reached the threshold and this cannot be sustained anymore," Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha told the National Assembly. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese agencies have confirmed that rice export consignments rejected by the US are not toxic or unsafe.

 The deployment of 4G, combined with increasing demand for advanced IT services, is set to drive growth in Vietnam’s telecoms sector.

Bui Tuyet Minh, who has more than 10 years of experience working in education, as well as a master’s degree in Dance/Movement Therapy, now pioneers integrating dance/movement therapy to creative education for personal

 VietNamNet Bridge – Today, bringing up children means more than feeding them and providing them a basic education. In an ever developing society with higher expectations for future generations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Airlines, the nation’s flag carrier, has asked the Ministry of Transport for permission to increase its chartered capital to over VND14.2 trillion so that it could buy 18 more A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang’s tourism department will introduce the Son Tra Sunset Tour next March, the newest tourism service on top of Son Tra Mountain.

A few days ago, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga claimed in an interview "no country in the world has doctoral training as cheap as in Vietnam". Ga’s comment has become a hot topic on social network sites.

In 2003, ASEAN leaders adopted the ASEAN Concord II Declaration, under which they agreed to form the ASEAN Community by 2020. VietNamNet talked with former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan, Dr. Do Duc Dinh and Dr. Vo Tri Thanh about this.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The nation’s coffee farming sector will have to replant 140,000 to 160,000 hectares of aging trees in the coming years,

 K-Pop Group Got7 is set to liven up Phu Tho Province at Zing Music Space this coming January 7 from 9:00-11:00 p.m.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There are tens of food shops near the Saigon Railway Station to sell steamed rice to poor people.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has told the Ministry of Industry and Trade to sanction those responsible for the wrongful fish sauce survey conducted by the Vietnam Standards and Consumers Association,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Population policies should change from focusing on population and family planning to focusing on population and development,

 Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) appointed Keith Coleman, founder of startup Yes Inc, as head of its product team, the third executive to lead the division in less than a year.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Sun Group, one of the biggest estate developers in Vietnam, has just unveiled its new residential project of high-end apartments in Hanoi’s center called Sun Grand City Ancora Residence. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 200,000 Vietnamese visited Japan in the first 10 months of this year, up 30 per cent year-on-year, Akihiko Tamura of the Japan Tourism Agency said at a recent meeting with 30 Vietnamese travel agencies.

  Vietnam currently has about 1.75 million labourers who are children or adolescents, mostly in big cities, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, according to a Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) official.