Hanoi is facing difficulties realising the government's staff reduction policy because officials working at the city's state agencies are all well-qualified. 

HCM has built a project on an air quality observation center in the phase 2016-2020, which will need a total fund of U$22.18 million to build 27 automatic and 200 semiautomatic observation stations.

 Massive wartime bomb found in central Vietnam, Three children rescued from fire, Vietnam responds to International Ear Care Day, Half-a-million-USD project to support people with brain injuries

 VietNamNet Bridge – March will be the month of the two blockbusters "Kung Fu Panda 3" and "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice".

 Vietnam has challenges to tackle if it wants to achieve economic targets and deeply integrate into the world's economy in the context of new trade agreements.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four students from Ha Noi University of Technology designed an app that helps parents stay present in their young children's lives with recorded story-telling and messages.

The Vietnamese are indulging themselves in a festive atmosphere as the first lunar month has the most festivals in a year. While some festivals bring joys and teach youth history, others are plagued with chaos and violence.

 A man in the northern Quang Ninh Province thought he found a surefire way to kill a mouse: by setting it ablaze with petrol. But only when his house and car were razed last week did he start to feel pangs of regret.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Maybe you don't know this about me, but I was against the Vietnam War when I was a teenage girl living in Franklin Square, Long Island.

 HSBC attributed the resilience of Vietnam’s manufacturing sector to the country’s rising attractiveness as a manufacturing hub, which helped reel in record FDI in 2015 and should boost exports in 2016.

 Vietnamese primatologists and their foreign partners from Fauna & Flora International (FFI) have discovered more than 500 grey-shanked douc langurs, an extremely rare primate species, in the Central Highlands region.

  The Ministry of Transport has just ratified the list of strategic investors in Airport Corporation of Vietnam, appointing Aeroports de Paris as the sole candidate.

 To celebrate 40 years of the city named after late President Ho Chi Minh, the municipal Department of Culture and Sports launched a song-writing and poster contests on March 3.

 Vietnamese top grandmasters are expected to face a tough challenge with contenders around the world during the sixth HDBank Cup International Open Chess Championship 2016 to be held in Ho Chi Minh City from March 8-13.

 Vietnam remained its 146th position out of 204 in FIFA’s March ranking, according to the Vietnam Football Federation on March 4.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first international circus gala in HCMC will take place this weekend at the Lan Anh Club in District 10, with more than 50 artists, including six from abroad, attending,

 VietNamNet Bridge - Here are pictures of special methods used against thieves by Hanoians.

VietNamNet Bridge - The continued sharp fall in the oil price has caused investors to hesitate starting the oil refinery projects they promised. Sources said some investors may give up the projects.

 VietNamNet Bridge - According EuroCham, the free trade agreement signed with the EU could open up more opportunities for Vietnam, when, along with goods, capital and technology can also penetrate the market more easily.

 Autopsy results for Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, will be made public after a Georgia judge on Thursday ordered the report to be unsealed.