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Be creative at Toa Tau classes

 VietNamNet Bridge – Toa Tau (train carriage) is a small but special school located at 632 Dien Bien Phu, Binh Thanh District, HCM City.

Bank’s bad debt: easier bought than sold

VietNamNet Bridge - The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has released an ultimatum for commercial banks that they must sell all their bad debts by the end of the third quarter of 2015.

Road fee hike raises complaints

 Transport enterprises oppose the Ministry of Transport's decision to raise fees on the HCM City–Trung Luong Highway by 50 per cent from June 1.

The echo of Central Highlands Gong

 VietNamNet Bridge – Gong performances are popular at spring festivals in the Central Highlands. For Central Highlanders, gongs have become part of their lives. In recent years, local gong artists have organized classes to teach gong playing

Vacations give workers the time they need to recuperate

 Long holidays do not lead to low production as some think, Vu Quang Tho, director of the Workers and Trade Union Institute, told the Hai Quan (Customs) newspaper.

Private monopoly at airports impossible

  Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Hong Truong talked about the conditions for investors to buy the operation rights to a number of airports in the country after the ministry unveiled an airport sale plan. 

Opera house performs Carmen for anniversary

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 140th anniversary celebration of Bizet's opera Carmen will be held at the HCM City Opera House next Sunday with a two-part performance, featuring excerpts from the opera and a ballet staged by P. A. Kim Quy.

Opportunities have arrived for cement manufacturers

VietNamNet Bridge - Many large construction projects have resumed work, while coal prices have decreased, helping to cut production costs. Cement manufacturers see great opportunities to revive their business..

Exotic species discovered in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – These exotic species have a peculiar shape that is different from most species seen in the wild.

Sugarcane farmers bitter as yields, prices crash

 VietNamNet Bridge – For sugarcane farmers in the central and southern regions it has been a double whammy as bad weather and diseases first hit their crop and then low prices reduced their incomes.

100 infertile couples register for surrogate pregnancy

 VietNamNet Bridge – Around 100 infertile couples across Vietnam have registered for surrogate pregnancy at three authorised hospitals in the country after the regulation on surrogacy took effect one week ago

New notes are blowing in the wind

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Opera and Ballet will, as usual, present a combination of classical music and dance in its new show, but this time, a new, folksy element has entered the picture.

Residents' fears alleviated after hazardous dioxin cleaned up

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the 170,000 Vietnamese living near Bien Hoa and Phu Cat airbases, they may finally start living without fear of dioxin exposure as a result of a five-year clean up of dioxin contaminated hotspots in Viet Nam.

Gov't gets serious about tech innovation

 VietNamNet Bridge – Earlier this year, the government established the National Technology Innovation Foundation (NATIF) with a registered capital of VND1 trillion (US$47 million).

Miss Vietnam in Russia faces crown withdrawal for elleged housing fraud

 Truong Ho Phuong Nga, 2007 Miss Vietnam in Russia, has recently been arrested for involving in a swindling case worth VND16b(US$745,643.) and she may be revoked her crown.

U23s ready for Asian qualifier

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam manager Toshyia Miura has finalised the names of 23 players who will compete at the Asian U23 Football Championship's qualifier later this month.

Lack of qualified professors leads to ineffective education

 VietNamNet Bridge – The scarcity of qualified lecturers has resulted in low quality education and training in Viet Nam. Voice of Viet Nam spoke to Professor, Academician and People's Teacher Pham Minh Hac about the issue.

Foreign ambassadors return to Vietnam to do business (part 1)

VietNamNet Bridge - They first came to Vietnam as foreign ambassadors or heads of states, and have now returned to Vietnam as businesspeople.

Viet Nam, Thailand relations bound to flourish: President Sang

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam treasures its growing relationship with Thailand and believes it will thrive in the coming years, President Truong Tan Sang said on Friday, March 20.

Tragi-comedy heads for US stages

 VietNamNet Bridge – Actors from the IDECAF theatre in HCM City will travel to the US to perform Hop Dong Manh Thu (Devil's Contract) from April 8 to 20, following the success of several other Vietnamese plays performed there.