Overseas Professor Tran Thanh Van, talks to the newspaper Tien Phong (Vanguard) about the country’s need to pay a high salary to people working in science and technology.

Ms. Anke Mastenbroek, Water Business Line Director at Royal HaskoningDHV, tells VET about Vietnam's water supply issues and water treatment solutions.

Tax authorities are considering taxing business conducted on social media platforms, but further study is needed before this becomes reality.

 The Arieu Ping, which means exhumation, is the biggest celebration of the Pa Ko to show respect and piety of the living people for the deceased.

The negative effects of social media and the stresses of modern life are leading to higher instances of mental health issues in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam needs to draw up a long-term plan to stop receiving ODA within 15-20 years, experts say. As of June this year, it is no longer receiving preferential loans from WB.

 Hometels are the latest innovation in Vietnam’s hospitality real estate sector and like those that came before face a number of risks yet also potential.

Local employees in the information technology (IT) sector will earn much higher salaries if they have a good command of foreign languages, according to survey results of job recruitment websites VietnamWorks and TopITworks. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The new and privately owned Nui Nhan Tuong (classical drama) troupe has opened in Phu Yen Province’s Tuy Hoa City.  

 Conducting business online has never been so fruitful in Vietnam as now, but whether tax authorities can extract collections remains up for debate.

The decade-long partnership between Techcombank and HSBC is coming to an end.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Although Thai Kim Lan gave birth to her only daughter in Germany, she always connects it to the food, customs and smells of the motherland. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – “It has been five years since our surgery, but I feel like it was recent. I remember the day when I was hospitalized. You, with your loving thick glasses, were the first person I met. 

 Several ministries have expressed concern that the Metro Line No. 2 project in HCMC might make the country’s public debt soar as its cost has surged to about US$2.15 billion from the originally planned US$1.3 billion.

 The draft cyber information security law will be submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee this month, the Ministry of Public Security said on its website.

 Some top experts in payments, e-commerce and retail gave their insights into the future of online trading in Viet Nam at a two-day seminar in HCM City this week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – School years throughout Viet Nam usually start with dry sermons by school principals and sombre school songs.

HCMC has set a target that 15-20 percent students of each educational institution in the city will use school bus by 2019-2020. However statistics show that the number of students using this service has been reducing. 

 The Ministry of Construction has proposed to the prime minister to give more funding to the National History Museum project which will cost a gigantic VND11.3 trillion (US$500 million).

At the peak of the ‘mining fever’, Quy Hop District in the central province Nghe An had hundreds of sites operational. Now, due to high production costs and consumption difficulties, many mining companies have shut down