VietNamNet Bridge - Management agencies are continuing to argue about how to collect taxes from Uber. 

VietNamNet Bridge – What do an 11-year-old Hanoian and Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau have in common? Just one thing.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s national junior team will take part in the SCG Badminton Asia Junior Championships 2016 in Thailand July 9-17. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vocational training schools are revamping their curricula and offering new training majors in an attempt to stem the decline in the number of students applying to the schools. 

 Award-winning mixologist, Pham Tien Tiep, will share his great passion and skills on mixing cocktails and other drinks at a cocktail master class, which will be held every Saturday at La Plume, an elegant bar and bistro in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bruno Marchal has lived in Ha Noi for more than 10 years and has made a name for himself as a talented magician, DJ and IT consultant.

 Ho Chi Minh City needs about VND1,000 trillion (US$44 billion) for infrastructure development in the phase of 2015-2030, said a representative of the city People’s Committee at a meeting yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Having to shut down some shops, Johnathan Hanh Nguyen, a renowned businessman dubbed ‘the branded goods King’, is facing  problems with his fast food chains.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered the closure of about 2.2 million hectares of natural forests in Central Highlands localities on June 20.

VietNamNet Bridge – On a hot, stuffy summer day, while passing a small lane in Ha Noi, you will find a fresh green space with hanging flowers and ornamental plant pots. 

 Britain’s recent vote to leave the European Union (EU) will impact trade in Asia but Vietnam looks likely to be least affected due to its export structural change, ANZ Bank said in a report.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Banh u nuoc tro, or banh tro in short, is made mainly from sticky rice and mung beans. The name of the cake comes from the process of making it.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front’s (VFF) chapter in HCM City and the Lao Front for National Construction’s ( LFNC ) chapter in Vientiane should strengthen links, towards promoting their future development.

Vietnam will work hard for closer ties between India and ASEAN, especially CLMV countries, stated Vietnamese Ambassador to India Ton Sinh Thanh during the fifth India-ASEAN Economic Forum in India’s capital city of New Delhi on July 8.

  Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of reinforcing all-around ties with Thailand during a reception in Hanoi on July 8 for Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai.

The GEOTEC Hanoi 2016 under the theme of “Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development” will be held on November 24-25 in Hanoi.

An estimated seven million children in developing countries, including Viet Nam, pass away every year due to diarrheal and respiratory disease, which can be prevented by a simple but effective way: proper hand-washing with soap.  

If you are Hanoians or have lived in this city for a long time enough to understand Hanoi, you will be very familiar with the image of iced tea shops, which are everywhere, from busy streets to luxury shopping malls to small alleys and pavements.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has made significant progress in saving children’s lives, getting children into school and lifting people out of poverty, but this progress has been neither even nor fair, 

Mr. Chidu Narayanan, Economist for Asia at Standard Chartered Bank, spoke with VET about Vietnam's economic situation and the expectations for 2016.