Non-aviation revenue in the airport business, including sales per passenger through ACV (Airports Corporation of Vietnam), is $1, compared with the average of $10-12 in Asia and $4-5 in Thailand and Malaysia.

VietNamNet Bridge - Collecting and treating waste in rural areas is a difficult task for local authorities, but dry anaerobic composting model may prove to be a good solution. 

Vietnam’s internet in recent days has been mostly relying on the mainland cable system across the northern border with China, which is a part of the APG system (the Vietnam-Hong Kong section), and partially on SMW3. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The low quality of university education is blamed on curricula which focuses on theoretical knowledge and does not provide enough practicum hours. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The cooking oil market with annual revenue of VND30 trillion, a high growth rate and low average consumption per capita has become an attractive market.

Laos is making hectic preparations for the building of one more hydropower dam – Pak Beng – on the Mekong river section which runs through Oudomxay province.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam ranks 19th among 20 countries which have students gaining the best achievements in the latest OECD rankings.

VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists say that problems in river basin management, due to a lack of cooperation among agencies, are threatening the country's water security.

Only one percent of students choose to study Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese or German as their first foreign language. 

VietNamNet Bridge - These families have created consumer goods brands familiar to every Vietnamese.

The Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (Varans) said Vietnam and China have agreed to set up a channel to exchange information and cooperate in nuclear power technology.

VietNamNet Bridge - Billionaire Wilbur Ross, hailed as someone who knows how to help businesses achieve success, had an unsuccessful experience in Vietnam 10 years ago.

Tran Ba Duong, a big shareholder of Thaco, a manufacturer, the largest privately run conglomerate, could be on a par with Pham Nhat Vuong and Trinh Van Quyet, the richest billionaires, if Thaco shares are listed on the bourse.

Some scholars, who believe the celebration of both solar and lunar new years is unnecessary as it causes a waste of resources, have suggested merging the two celebrations.

An excellent student at Harvard, an author of an essay about philosophy, a female student who can imitate accents of seven languages, and a beautiful girl who met US President Barack Obama. 

VietNamNet Bridge - E-commerce firms now have more rivals as the most powerful conglomerates in the industry have arrived in the country.

VietNamNet Bridge - Reports show that the Vietnamese brain drain is affecting employers and businesses.

International organizations and the government of Vietnam are all considering solutions to supply safe water to the Mekong River Delta, one of three deltas in the world most vulnerable to climate change.

VietNamNet Bridge - Cement as well as oil and gas shares were popular in 2014, bank shares in 2015, and steel shares in 2016. What about 2017?

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam added two more US dollar billionaires in the last several months. Nearly 10 other dollar billionaires are awaiting recognition.