The Ministry of Public Security is working on a national database that will store and supply “basic” and accurate information about citizens via their personal ID numbers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Continuous heavy rain since Sunday evening worsened the inundation in lowland areas in the central provinces of Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Tri, with three people reported dead.

Pediatric hospitals in HCM City have received four children diagnosed with malaria, including three patients from the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong and one from the southern province of Binh Phuoc.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Been to a Vietnamese wedding banquet? If so, you must have tried banh giay, a white, flat round cake made of glutinous rice with or without mung beans inside.

Though the peak time of the dry season has yet to arrive, the water level on the Red, Thai Binh and Day Rivers has been decreasing, posing a risk of water shortage for hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland.

Vietnam is still under big pressure to call for capital for domestic debt swap, with 50 percent of domestic debts expected to reach maturity in the next three years, according to the World Bank.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam makes boxes and wires for Samsung smartphones, while the five key components of products are made by foreign-invested enterprises. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Project 911 on producing 20,000 PhDs in the 2010-2020 period has not succeeded because of unreasonable financial policies.

 The Hue Academy of Music will celebrate its 10th birthday on November 25.The academy is one of three biggest music schools in Vietnam, educating students from the central and Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) provinces. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese oncologists say there is no proof that the Cuba-made Vidatox, also known as blue scorpion venom, is effective in fighting cancer, as advertisements claim.

Struggling in recent times, the equitization of Vietnam’s main State-run film studio seems to have set the industry back even further.

The future of news media and what it must do in response to severe competition from technology companies and social networking services were the key issues discussed at a recent conference in South Korea.

VietNamNet Bridge - State management agencies still have not agreed on a way to manage bitcoin and other kinds of digital currencies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said yesterday that non-infectious diseases were the leading cause of death in Viet Nam and had become a socio-economic burden. 

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment on Monday issued a warning to customers and secondary real estate investors about illegal activity of Alibaba Real Estate Joint-Stock Company ...

 Regulations imposing stiff fines on littering and urinating in public spaces took effect almost nine months ago, yet it has not changed people’s habit.

 The Aviation National Single Window will be put into operation at airports throughout the country in November, announced the General Authority of Customs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien yesterday ordered the immediate transfer of critically ill infants from a provincial hospital to centrally-administered ones.

 Four Vietnam students from the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted have brought home four prizes from the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2017 held in Thailand from November 12 to 21.

 A photo exhibition opened in Hanoi on November 21, showcasing 95 pictures featuring contemporary life through the lens of young photographers.