Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan tried to ease high school students' worries yesterday after many raised concerns about the new university application process.

 A suspect in the murder of a four-member family in the northern mountainous Yen Bai Province has been arrested, local police reported yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tapping into a Vietnamese penchant for all things Korean, POW POW Snow serves desserts that have high school and college students knocking on its doors even before they open.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many educators and students have expressed their disappointment about the 2015 enrolment season, saying that the 2-in-1 plan designed by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has failed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 9 million people in Viet Nam, or 10 per cent of the population, suffer from mental disorders, including 2.5 per cent with serious mental illnesses under social protection.

VietNamNet Bridge - With the current balance of power, Vietnam and Thailand will participate in a ‘duel’ to obtain the right to sell 250,000 tons of rice to the Philippines.

 In recent years the US has become the leading foreign investor in Vietnam in the field of tourism, according to Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh.

Vietnam is proud of its strong development in information technology (IT) as it strives to become an IT power by 2020. However, the majority of people still do not enjoy the benefits of IT.

VietNamNet Bridge - The functions of garbage incinerators is to treat waste to minimize pollution. However, in many places, they are actually causing pollution.

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Since early this year Vietnam’s real estate market has clearly been on the road to recovery, with sales prices as well as transaction numbers increasing sharply.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Although the catastrophic famine in 1945 took place 70 years ago, it remains a painful national memory as it claimed over two million lives.

VietNamNet Bridge - Lam Dong Province, home of the world-famous Da Lat Arabica coffee, which is now sold at Starbucks stores, wants to be one of the finest coffee producing areas in the world.

"Do charity" is a term we've heard more often than usual these days, as Quang Ninh Province and several localities in the northern region have been battered by prolonged torrential rains, flash floods and landslides over the past week.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Phu Quoc is Vietnam's largest island, known as the ‘pearl island’ with unspoiled, mysterious beauty and beautiful beaches.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Cam Tu spoke with Nhan Dan (People) newspaper about getting ready for the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).

The house at No. 145 Phan Dinh Phung Street, Phu Nhuan Ward, Hue City, on the An Cuu Riverside, was once the residence of the Queen Mother Doan Huy, the wife of King Khai Dinh (1916-1925), the 12th king of the Nguyen Dynasty.

Starting her journey in 2010 with modest luggage including an old Honda Chaly motorbike and her set of paintings, over the past five years, painter Dang Ai Viet has travelled alone across the country to draw sketches of Vietnamese heroic mothers

An art show titled Tinh Nghe Sy will raise funds to help elderly and disadvantaged artists.

 Three new films on women and love are being released this month by private producers in HCM City.