If you follow Highway No. 32 from Hanoi to the west about 45km, you will arrive in Son Tay Town where there exists a 200 year-old citadel built with laterite, a unique construction material.

 The globe is facing a "tidal wave" of cancer, and restrictions on alcohol and sugar need to be considered, say World Health Organization scientists.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Close to 80 people were killed and 214 others were injured in 182 traffic accidents nationwide in the first three days of the Lunar New Year, the latest report of the National Traffic Safety Committee has revealed.

 Three elderly men in northern Bac Giang Province are locally famous for further higher education after retirement.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Between wooden shelves packed with hundreds of silk bolts, Camille Lavergnas looks happily into the mirror.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Binh Dinh's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is trying to convince its partner in the nearby Central Highlands province of Gia Lai to remove a ban on livestock imports.

 Ukraine's opposition MPs are expected to push for laws that will reduce the power of the president, as parliament begins a new term on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Thua Thien-Hue received about 60,000 tourists, including 41,000 foreigners, during the first three days of the Lunar New Year (Tet).

VietNamNet Bridge – A Dutch heavy lift ship left Kaliningrad on February 3, carrying the second Russian-built Kilo-class submarine to a naval base in Vietnam. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Guests attending a recent haute couture fashion show in Ha Noi were jaw-dropped when the upper section of an off-the-shoulder gown worn by former Miss Vietnam Ngoc Han slowly slid down, threatening to reveal her modesty.

 Party leader launches New Year with symbolic tree planting; Viet Nam's foreign affair achievements help creating peace and stability; PM tours Vietnam waste solution company

Customs have always been named as the agency with the highest corruption level in the government inspectors’, the World Bank’s and Vietnam Business Forum’s reports.

VietNamNet Bridge – The national women's tennis team will play their first match of the Fed Cup's Group II Asia/Oceania zone qualification on February 4 in Astana City, Kazakhstan.

Treating e-waste remains a difficult question to solve for environmental scientists. The volume of e-waste has been increasing year after year, while the treatment solutions still cannot bring good effects.

 Music therapy can help teenagers and young people cope better when faced with treatment for cancer, a study in Cancer journal suggests.

Vietnam has seen many positive results as well as challenges in various fields of development and the path to future growth looks bright, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong tells VNA in the following interview on the occasion of Tet.

VietNamNet Bridge – Travel firms tend to make heavier investment in necessary facilities to step up the tour sale via Internet.

The water filtration method with biotechnology found by the Vietnamese scientists has demonstrated the high ability of filtering organic matters and capable of cleansing nitrogen, a pollutant existing in water wells.

 More than 100 war keepsakes are displayed in a museum owned by war veteran Nguyen Manh Hiep who spent 20 years travelling to every corner of the country to look for and collect these objects.

 Bringing Xoan singing into schools has been recognised as an effective way of keeping the traditional art form in the hearts and minds of local people in the northern province of Phu Tho, its cradle.