The central city of Đà Nẵng, in co-operation with Daegu City, South Korea will build a book park for the community in Hòa Cường in Hải Châu district next month.

 International-standard training programmes are being used at many universities in HCM City to help improve the quality of human resources, representatives of higher education institutions said at a conference held yesterday.

 In the middle of a forest in the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai, classes teaching reading and writing for under-50-year-olds have been held in the evenings for the past two years.

 It is a risky, dangerous job with little protection and not much income, but many people in Ben Tre Province dive into rivers and search for scrap metal, sunk boats and other pieces of usable junk.

With traditional medicine still popular in Viet Nam, many breast cancer patients use unscientific and useless herbal cures to fight tumours, leaving them with more dangerous cancer and often severe side effects, 

Indian Ambassador P. Harish told VIR that the two countries are entering their economic primes, and that Indian firms are starting to consider Vietnam a good target for their investments.

VN should promote IT products and services with high added value capable of deployment on a regional and global scale, said Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology Nguyen Thanh Hung.

The 13rd ASEAN CIO/CSO Awards 2017 honoured 26 leading(CIO) and CSO) with outstanding contributions in IT and information security in Viet Nam and Southeast Asia on Friday.

 All telecom operators in the country have reported big profits in the first nine months of this year.

 Chinese e-commerce group, Alibaba, on Thursday authorised Viet Nam’s Novaon Internet Corporation to be its reseller in the Viet Nam market.

 The government has decided to establish a board for private economic development research (IV Board).

Quảng Bình representative Nguyễn Huy Hoàng defeated Southeast Asian Games winner Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn in the men’s 400m individual medley event at the National Swimming Championships in HCM City on Thursday.

 Nguyen Van Phuong and teammate Trinh Linh Giang won the National Tennis Championships’ men’s team event for Becamex Binh Duong yesterday in HCM City.

 More than 7,000 runners will take part in the first HCM City Marathon on January 14, The event hass been renamed from the annual HCM City Run held since 2013.

 Photos reflecting daily life in both old and modern parts of Hanoi are on display at an exhibition that opened in the capital city yesterday.

 Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, has asked the People’s Committee of northern Hung Yen Province to inspect Red and Luoc rivers for illegal sand mining.

 Using coal bottom ash from thermal power plants to produce construction materials will help reduce the slag discharged into the environment in the Mekong Delta, experts said.

 The deputy director of the city’s Department of Transport has pledged to step up inspections and law enforcement to reduce or eliminate the number of illegal buses operating in HCM City.

 Fifth grader Dinh Thi Phuong and her friends go swimming every day, but it is not a recreational activity.

 Nations should look beyond mere economic gains at questions of sovereignty and excessive dependence when considering participation in China’s Belt and Road (BRI) initiative, experts said yesterday.