Huawei, Xiaomi and Nokia launched new products recently to compete with Samsung and Oppo, the two big players in the mid-tier market segment. 

The police reported that over 2,000 school violence cases were discovered last year in Vietnam. However, only a few hundred cases were reported by the education sector.

VietNamNet Bridge - The drought and saltwater intrusion in 2016, and the historic high tides this year, are indicators of things to come in the Mekong Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge - The sale of business divisions can be seen as a move by foreign banks to restructure their operations and focus on core business fields to improve business efficiency.

 The Vietnamese Government is making concerted efforts to improve business climate for both domestic and foreign enterprises, including those from the Europe, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on October 17.

A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Vietnamese Government and the administration of Belgium’s Flemish region on October 17 as part of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to the European country.

 Vietnam can be proud to have helped 6 million people escape poverty from 2012 to 2016 under national multidimensional poverty standards, according to Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam Caitlin Wiesen. 

 The seventh annual Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival will be held on March 9 - 16, 2019 in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak with a wide range of activities featuring the local specialty.

 Late historian and People’s Teacher Phan Huy Le has been posthumously awarded the Certificate of Merit from the Japanese Foreign Minister Kono Taro, in recognition of his great contributions to the promotion Vietnam-Japan academic exchange.

The harmonious sound of bamboo pan flute lure Mong young men and women to come to a spring market where they perform singing, dancing and colourful costumes. There, they also find their love.

 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and development partners launched the project “For a World Without Waste” in Hanoi on October 17. 

Vietnam will compete Thailand, Timor Leste and Cambodia in Group A of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Futsal Championship 2019, scheduled for October 21-27 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Tour guides are known as cultural ambassadors for their country and community in the eyes of local and foreign visitors. Whether guides can deliver quality service to tourists is not only essential to the success of their company

 The first music-focused Open Session of the FAMLAB (Film, Archive and Music Lab) will be held at The Observatory in District 1, HCMC on November 1.

Nearly 14,000 resettlement apartments and land plots earmarked for people affected by development projects in the city remain vacant, marking a waste of the city’s budget.

The opinions of local and foreign insiders about Vietnam's Millennial entrepreneurs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi authorities have ordered a comprehensive inspection on the use and management of protection forest in Minh Phu and Minh Tri communes in Soc Son District to tackle long-standing violations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam received 11.6 million international tourists during the first nine months of this year, an increase of 22.9 per cent in comparison with the same period last year, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Huu Ngoc was born and raised in Hanoi, but it wasn’t until he left the city in 1946 to join the national resistance war against the French that he realised just how much he loved his hometown.

 Van Don International Airport in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh is slated to receive its first flight on December 25, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).