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VEC sets record in number of costly highways

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Express Corporation (VEC), the biggest road and highway investor, has set a record in the number of highways with very high costs.

Treasures inside the 250-year-old house in Hoi An

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hoi An town, Tan Ky House located at 101 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street was built almost two centuries ago as the home of a Vietnamese merchant.

Art & Entertaiment News 17/5

 DJ Hoang Anh to embark on world tour, VN Exhibition Hall in Milan Expo 2015, Pianists make stage debuts with Bach, folk music, VN Next Top Model winner releases first collection, Concerts to mark Trinh Cong Son's death anniversary

Phoenix flowers dress up Hanoi city streets

 With the first rays of the summer having just landed on the streets of Hanoi, the city streets are adorned with the red blooms of the phoenix flowers.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 17/5

 Bank to invest 15 trillion VND in Central Highlands region, Over 22 million USD for rice land development, EVN to divest from An Binh Securities, Revised Housing Law hoped to boost real estate market

Social News 17/5

 Binh Thanh Police nab murder suspect, Hot spell raises risk of strokes, Hanoi curbs crane operations, Ho Chi Minh Highway, Highway 1 to be repaired, 2015 blood donation campaign to go through 25 localities

Scientific research results limited in Vietnam

 Scientific research and technology have failed to spearhead socio-economic growth in HCM City, a seminar heard in the city yesterday.

Investors still awaiting the ‘go-ahead’ for aviation infrastructure projects

VietNamNet Bridge - The government has called for public investment in aviation infrastructure projects, but it has not shown how the investors should approach the projects.


Zisha teapots carry a Vietnamese soul too

 VietNamNet Bridge – An ancient Chinese tradition with an ardent Vietnamese following, particularly among royalty and mandarins, is now drawing the interest of people from other walks of life.

WTO Center: Local firms will benefit from FTA with Korea

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese and South Korean enterprises will benefit much from the Vietnam-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) when it is ratified and implemented, according to the WTO Center.

Long An’s 100-pillar house

 VietNamNet Bridge – Those who have a chance to visit the Mekong Delta province of Long An are advised to head for a 100-pillar house built in the early 20th century in Long Huu Dong Commune in Can Duoc District.

The thousand-year-old camphor tree in Vietnam

This ancient tree, more than 1,000 years old, grows in Tien Luc Commune, Lang Giang District, Bac Giang Province, northern Vietnam.It's one of the two most ancient camphor trees in the world, a rare "wonder" of nature.

Turning vacant land into green gardens

 VietNamNet Bridge – Looking at the small pretty garden with vegetables put carefully in lines at Binh Loi residential area in Binh Thanh District, not many people would think the garden used to be a dumpsite full of rubble, nylon bags and used stuff.

President’s Europe visit achieves set goals

 President Truong Tan Sang’s trip to Russia, the Czech Republic and Azerbaijan from May 8-15 has achieved its goal of improving political trust to form a basis for economic, trade and investment ties.

Da Nang’s most beautiful bridges viewed from aerial cameras

 VietNamNet Bridge – The five bridges spanning the poetic Han River have turned Da Nang into “the city of bridges".

Textilers move in ahead of FTAs

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign textile and garment firms are reeling out new investments in anticipation of upcoming free trade agreements.

Cameroon-French singer-songwriter to make VN debut

 VietNamNet Bridge – The talented Cameroon-French singer-songwriter Irma Pany will debut in Viet Nam for her 2015 Asia tour, the French Institute in HCM City has announced.

UK scientists search for new caves in Quang Binh province

 Howard Limbert, Head of a group of scientists from the UK, said they will open a large-scale search effort for new caves in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh.

VN sea transport industry needs reforms

 Viet Nam's sea transport industry needed restructuring to become more competitive, said head of the Transport Ministry's Marine Department, Nguyen Nhat.

Galaxies die by slow 'strangulation'

 When galaxies stop making stars, their death is usually a slow process that chokes them of the necessary cool gases over about four billion years.