Deputies of the HCMC People’s Council have voiced concerns that the city lacks proper policies to attract investments in science and technology.

Local experts have suggested provinces in the Mekong Delta region consider applying Israel’s agricultural production models and technologies to create farming breakthroughs in the biggest rice producing region of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that the usefulness and quality of Vietnam’s transportation infrastructure in 2014 was ranked 74 amongst 138 countries, compared to 90 in 2012 and 103 in 2010.

VietNamNet Bridge – Following his great success, the owner of the Yet Kieu submarine is going ahead with his plan to make the next-generation version of the sub.

 Ha Long Bay and the Son Doong cave have been named among the top 10 of the most breathtakingly beautiful places to visit on the planet by the global travel website GlobalGrasshopper.

  The POPS Awards, which honour digital entertainment products, were presented for the first time at a ceremony at the Intercontinental Asiana Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday night.

 As many as 50 per cent of leaders at state departments and agencies in HCM City do not know how to use their work emails, said a local official.

VietNamNet Bridge – Of 6.5 million children under 5 years old in the country, nearly 1.7 million are malnourished and stunted, said the Director of the Nutrition Institute, Le Danh Tuyen.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Nikkei Asian Review recently selected the Top 100 largest enterprises in ASEAN, including five Vietnamese companies. Who are the bosses of these firms?

 Masan Consumer Holdings, a subsidiary of Masan Group (MSN), has successfully sold VND2.1 trillion (US$98.3 million) worth of 10-year bonds with an annual coupon of 8%.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Teachers and students of Viet Nam National University's HCM City School for Gifted Students have anointed student Pham Tuan Huy as "the golden boy of mathematics".

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 36-episode TV series Tuoi Thanh Xuan (Forever Young), a co-operation between Viet Nam and the Republic of Korea, will premiere on Viet Nam Television on December 17.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan said the operation of Uber taxi service is not aligned with Vietnam’s regulations and that he supports a proposal

 VietNamNet Bridge – Several years ago, the 2-digit inflation rate was a major economic blow, but this year it is the low inflation rate, a 10-year low, that has people and policymakers worried.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the trial circulation of caravans of more than nine seats brought into Vietnam by German tourists.

Venerable monk Thich Nguyen Quang, deputy head of the Buddhist Shangha of Khanh Hoa province, said the shangha had asked the police for verification of a sex clip allegedly belonging to a monk in Nha Trang City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Miss Vietnam 2008 Thuy Dung was once again the vedette in the show of Genviet denim fashion brand at the ongoing Vietnam Spring-Summer Fashion Week 2015 in Hanoi on Tuesday night.

 The working group of Vietnam and China held the sixth round of talks on the sea area beyond the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin in Beijing from December 10-12.