Top swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, 17, spent the Tet holiday in the US where she has been training with Florida’s Saint Augustine Swim Team as part of a special programme for elite sportsmen

International schools could be the ideal places for children to learn English, but they make light of science subjects. State schools can provide good learning environment, but the curricula are too academic.

Hoa Binh province has received the technology transfer to implement the project on using solar energy and diesel engine to generate electricity for remote areas.

Breeding ornamental snakes is now in vogue, because 2013 is the year of snake. However, scientists say the breeding is not encouraged, because this is a kind of alien species.

VietNamNet Bridge – Enterprises in several localities will be allowed to continue exporting unprocessed minerals under a decision issued by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT). 

 VietNamNet Bridge – For nearly a decade, hundreds of farmers in Lao Cai Province’s Sa Pa District have been earning a high income after deciding to shift from growing rice to growing roses.

 For decades, the strange substance called dark matter has teased physicists, challenging conventional notions of the cosmos.

VietNamNet Bridge - For Vietnam, the counterproductive lesson of China's one-way communication policy should be seriously considered.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong reflects on the past year and shares his expectations for the next in an exclusive interview with the Vietnam News Agency.

Ba Ria-Vung Tau attracts big investors; Local exports gain easier access to Argentinean market; HDBank receives Euromoney honour; HCM City needs 53,000 workers after Tet

A new circus act entitled A O (Ah Oh) reflecting on the daily lives of Vietnamese southern villages has hit stages in HCM City, bringing an exciting new cultural product for locals and tourists alike.

Figures released by the State Bank have shown that at the end of 2012, the total assets of the entire domestic banking system recorded a growth of 2.54 per cent compared with 2011,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The signed free-trade agreements (FTAs) would enable Viet Nam to reel in commercial and investment flows in serving its growth model restructuring.

Children and adolescents who watch a lot of television are more likely to manifest antisocial and criminal behavior when they become adults,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vo Trong Nghia's Stacking Green House has been awarded Building of the Year 2012 by the American magazine Archdaily.

VietNamNet Bridge – In Vietnamese culture, snakes compose a popular icon having a strong obsessiveness. For centuries, the worship of snakes became one of most ancient belief practices of the Vietnamese people

The Commonweath Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia’s natural science agency, is working to improve Viet Nam’s capacity to develop regional-scale climate projections.

VietNamNet Bridge - The world's largest coffee brand has entered the Vietnamese market with the opening of its first coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City on February 1.

Pilgrims are pickpocketed at Ba Chua Kho temple in Bac Ninh province. At the Perfume Pagoda in Hanoi, pilgrims are extremely crowded and they have to pay highly for services.

The Politburo has assigned Tran Tho, Deputy Party Secretary of Da Nang City, to be temporarily replace Nguyen Ba Thanh as the city’s Party Secretary.