Professor Dr Trinh Hong Son, deputy director general of Viet Duc Hospital cum director of the National Co-ordination Centre for the Transplantation of Human Tissue, speaks about challenges in finding organ donors.

The Human Rights Watch and the Al Jazeera TV channel have provided inaccurate information with a lack of objectivity and goodwill about the human rights situation in Vietnam, especially freedom of speech and freedom of internet.

Angry voices are heard in local media these days, when the Ministry of Information and Communications orders mobile carriers to send digitalized data of subscribers, including their portraits, to the ministry within one year. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The plan to relocate polluting factories from the inner city has become ‘urgent’, but none of the factories scheduled to move have not done so. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The one-month exhibition entitled “Community • Co-design • Architecture” will be held at Nanoco Gallery, 83 Lang Street, Hanoi from July 6 through August 5.

VietNamNet Bridge - Besides Uber and Grab, seven more taxi firms have joined the so-called ‘technology taxi’ market, providing convenient services at low prices. 

Dong Cuu is Viet Nam’s only craft village that supplied ritual dresses for kings, lords and courtiers in the past. Now it specialises in costumes for the hau dong (the spirit medium) ritual that received UNESCO recognition. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – One of the best destinations in the country for nature lovers is the Phuoc Binh National Park in Ninh Thuan Province.

Hoang Tuan Vu, commonly known as Kar, seems to be the only trekking tour guide in the central highlands of Viet Nam. But to this 32-year-old man, a resident of Ea Kar District in the central province of Dak Lak, ...

Pham Duy Cuong’s 35th birthday was celebrated far away from the family, but his fellow athletes made it extra special by presenting a cake with candles in a tent at a height of 5,000m above sea level on Mount Everest.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Percussionist Tran Xuan Hoa’s show entitled “From the Wood” will take place at Heritage Space, 6 Nguyen Hoang Street, Hanoi on July 8.

 Exhibition organiser Reed Tradex is ready to work with Vietnam industrialists to catch a new investment wave, said Kasinee Phantteeranurak, Project Manager of Reed Tradex Co., Ltd. in a special interview. 

Vinatex must innovate its technologies as soon as possible in order to increase its market share, said Le Tien Truong, the group’s General Director, at its share-holders’ meeting held in Hanoi on June 29.

The Vietnamese community in Europe has called on Germany, as the rotating President of the G20, to add the East Sea issue to the agenda of the G20 Summit slated for July 7-8 in Hamburg, Germany. 

 Despite the Law on Marriage and Family setting the minimum legal age for marriage at 18 for women and 20 for men, 11% of Vietnamese women aged 20-49 were married before the age of 18.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a target programme to restructure the agricultural economy, prevent natural disasters and stabilise people’s lives with total capital of VNĐ306.66 trillion (US$13.5 billion).

Vietnam posted a trade deficit of US$2.7 billion in the first half of 2017 including nearly US$13 billion of trade deficit reported by the domestic sector and over US$10 billion of trade surplus from FDI.

 Ha Quoc Quy, a local in HCM City has transferred a protected bird to Saigon Zoo on June 29.

 The General Department of Taxation has said it would inspect Uber and Grab taxi’s tax payments. 

 Police in Hanoi has summoned a local xe om taxi driver for allegedly overcharging and attacking an Australian tourist.