VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has to spend hundreds of billions of dong to organize high school finals every year. The same sum of money is spent on the university entrance exams.

 VietNamNet Bridge - At night when the owners of fish and shrimp lakes have to keep themselves vigil or hire guards to protect their lakes, Mr. Ninh can sleep until the morning because his shrimp lagoon is protected by storks.

VietNamNet Bridge – Lacking money is considered the biggest problem of Vietnam in organizing tourism promotion campaigns.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Finance has proposed to establish the country's first credit rating agency to increase corporate bond market and assist businesses in mobilising capital for their business and production.

VietNamNet Bridge – IT workers are in high demand with the industry developing fast, said Tran Anh Tuan, deputy director of the Centre of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labor Market Information in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Relevant agencies still argue about which frequency band to use for LTE 4G which is expected to be launched in Vietnam after 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – The country has 330 dams in poor state, including 64 with a capacity of more than one million cubic metres that face the risk of breaking, according to the Irrigation Department.

VietNamNet Bridge – The only healthcare waste treatment station in the central province of Khanh Hoa's Nha Trang City has not been functional for the past 10 months, making it difficult for hospitals to get rid of their toxic waste.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Groups of young people are reinvigorating traditional arts, introducing folk songs and paintings to a new generation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 64,000 substandard traffic signs need to be replaced along 17,000km of roads nation-wide, according to the Ministry of Transport's Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the scorching sun of Binh Dinh Province, we had a great idea to visit a nice and cool place with a river, mountain, green trees and rustic food.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The people, landscapes, and the daily life in the southwestern region appear very romantic through the eyes of amateur photographers, who participated in the photo contest “Tracking the Lover.”

Besides the President of the Lam Son Sugar Company, Le Van Tam, who is 76 years old, the list of the listed companies still shows some other businessmen at the age of over 70.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After having lived and worked in Japan for more than 40 years, Professor Dang Luong Mo decided to return to Vietnam, hoping to contribute to his homeland.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Panellists discussed the importance of disaster risk management policies in the private sector at the launch in Ha Noi last week of the United Nations 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the real estate market which seems to be quiet, there is a boisterous fighting among food and beverage (F&B) chains to obtain advantageous retail premises.

VietNamNet Bridge – Artist Thuy Lam's statues steal the hearts of viewers with their angelic features, unlike the man himself. At the age of 65, he looks like a bumpkin, with a tobacco pipe in his mouth and flat cap on his head.

VietNamNet Bridge – Due to the fact that tour operators in HCMC have found it difficult to fuel up buying power while local hotels have seen few customers,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Enterprises that delay paying social insurance will be subject to a fine three times higher than the current level if the amended draft Social Insurance Law goes into effect.