Agricultural businesses set to increase by 10% each year, PM okays abolition of three planned IPs in Hung Yen, Public investment disbursements slow, Vietnam exports 16,000 tonnes of fresh lychee to China

VietNamNet Bridge - As Hanoi lacks amusement parks and playgrounds for children, parents have to keep their children inside during summer holiday or send them to extra classes. 

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will present contemporary music and dance performances by international and Vietnamese musicians and choreographers at the city’s Opera House on July 9.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has called for provinces in the Mekong Delta to expand paddy farming in areas with favorable weather conditions given positive projections for outbound sales of the staple food later this year.

Teaching children to swim is one of the most effective ways to reduce drowning accidents in Vietnam, but this work has yet to produce results as expected.

 American photographer David Alan Harvey captured images of a changing Vietnam during his visits to the country from 1989 and 2004.

Few migrant workers in the informal sector have proper understanding about their rights in host localities and how to exercise those rights, particularly those relating to social welfare.

VietNamNet Bridge – The noise, motorcycles, the people, history, food ... have created a charming Hanoi for each foreign tourist.

Dinh La Thang, secretary of the HCMC Party Committee, has pledged that the city will take measures to support local enterprises to improve their competitiveness and ride out difficulties with production and trading activities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While the new online school enrollment system for the 2016 academic year is expected to help ease pressure on parents and students in Ha Noi, it also exposes obstacles.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese seafood exporters are scrambling to buy raw materials to compete with  Chinese businesses to fulfill export contracts.

The movie Life of Yen about the life of a young woman and her marriage arranged by her parents directed by Dinh Tuan Vu  will compete in the 9th World Premieres Film Festival 2016 slated from June 29 up to July 10 in Maniala.

VietNamNet Bridge - VietNamNet Bridge – Bai Xep in Phu Yen province in central Vietnam is selected by Business Insider as one of the 16 incredible destinations in Asia that tourists don’t know about yet.

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In the times of kings, Vietnamese houses that looked out to the streets were not allowed to have views higher than the King’s palanquin. So, upper storeys could not have windows, and certainly no balconies.

Le Minh Tan, director of the HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has only been reprimanded for holding a house-warming party during work hours despite clear regulations on such abuses of power.

The Director of the State Securities Commission’s (SSC) Market Development Department, Nguyen Son, said that Vietnam is struggling to upgrade its stock market from frontier to emerging by the end of the year.

Vietnamese spent an average of 24.7 hours a week on the Internet, up nine hours from 2014, according to a 2015 cross-platform insights report released by Nielsen.

 The Mekong Delta suffered losses worth more than VNĐ4.7 trillion (US$215 million) due to the severe and prolonged drought and saltwater intrusion last dry season, the Southwest Region Steering Committee has reported.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Virginia Morris is a security and defence analyst and author based in the UK. Her research specialty is asymmetric war and terrorism. Morris cycled the Ho Chi Minh Trail with her husband and children in 2015.