Education experts strongly oppose parents’ intention to teach their children under six years old to read and write, saying this is ‘antiscientific’ behavior. 

In a house on a small stone-paved alley, a three-year-old girl nicknamed Nhan Thien (Human Heaven) sits next to a slim, Buddhist nun, selecting seeds to grow vegetables.

VietNamNet Bridge - The sharp fall in sales of PCs (both desktop and laptop) has forced distributors and retailers to shut down or sell other products.

Foreign packaging companies have generally outpaced the local competition in meeting increasing needs as Vietnam’s consumption demand increases.

 The “Going to the field” festival 2017 of Quang Yen town, Quang Ninh province, takes place in the sixth lunar month at Coc Temple by the Cua Dinh River. The culture, sports, and tourism event has attracted locals and visitors near and far.

The family of martyr Luong Khanh in Nha Trang City couldn’t hold back the tears when they received a letter from a stranger informing them of the location of Khanh’s grave.

 Vietnam has seen a boom in fast-food chains but the failure of some poses questions about whether the market has become saturated and is no longer attractive.

“Strong manufacturing and FDI, an improving construction sector, and robust domestic demand continue to underpin activity [in Vietnam],” Mr. Ranil Salgado, Assistant Director, Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said.

 A recent deadly fire in Hanoi has raised warnings about house extensions that block emergency exits.

Vietnam aims to cut the number of traffic accidents and deaths by 5-10 percent every year and lower the number of severe crashes related to coaches and motorbikes between 2016 and 2020.

Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury left Hanoi on July 24, successfully concluding her five-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

 Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam has become the No 1 seed in Southeast Asia region, as per the latest ATP world rankings released on Monday.

 At least 15 million of the country’s 52-million workforce is suffering the consequences of severe noise levels, the Institute of Occupational Health and Environment, said on July 20.

 Many people in Ha Giang Province have complained about the abject lack of waste treatment facilities after tonnes of rubbish was dumped into a local stream.

 The families of 37 children, who have genital warts after undergoing circumcisions at an unlicensed clinic in Hung Yen Province, have sent a letter to the health minister of health.

By cooperating with local businesses, the investment wave from Japanese enterprises into Vietnam’s real estate market continues to grow strongly.

 The Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line which was planned to enter trial operation in October this year is facing a high risk of being failing to meet the schedule because of a delayed release of funds.

The appearance of big foreign retail chains and the strong rise of Vietnamese chains have fostered the development of consumer credit in Vietnam, according to the State Bank of Vietnam. 

A Vietnamese rescue ship on Sunday brought in the body of a Greek crewman and handed it over to relevant authorities on the mainland, online newspaper vov.vn reported.

Public schools in HCM City need to hire nearly 3,000 teachers for the upcoming academic year starting next month since the number of students and classrooms are set to increase,