Land fever in Phu Quoc, Long An, Nhon Trach and HCM City, a lack of houses for low income earners, and an oversupply of high-end apartments are the main features of today’s real estate market. 

VietNamNet Bridge - CCTV cameras will be installed at nursery schools in districts 1, 12 and Hoc Mon in a pilot program before being set up at all schools in HCMC.

 Some 20 years after the Asian financial crisis brought many Southeast Asian nations to their knees, business sentiment is buoyant in a region that now functions as one of the primary engines of global growth.

More than 2,000 large rivers with 10 kilometers or longer in Vietnam are being threatened by untreated waste water from households, industrial production and craft villages.

One of three Ta Quang Buu award winners for young scientists, Do Quoc Tuan, 33, is the co-author of six ISI articles and writer of two articles on Physical Review D. He earns a monthly salary of VND6 million

Tran Minh Chau, 14, is one of the youngest people among 10 others receiving Viet Nam’s Outstanding Youth Awards for the Year 2017. She has successfully passed an exam to study culture and art for talent between now and 2025,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have tightened management of breeding areas for tra fish as prices continue to rise.

 On a recent sunny day, Phan Thi Kim Ngan, 53, wore an old palm-leaf conical hat, as she removed the cover of a barrel containing traditional fish sauce in her garden in Con Son commune in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

Do Thang Hai, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, talks to the Viet Nam Economic Times on his ministry’s efforts to increase Vietnamese goods sold abroad

 VietNamNet Bridge – Travel firms in HCM City are offering a wide range of outbound and domestic tours including to many new destinations with attractive promotions during the upcoming summer holiday.

VietNamNet Bridge - The non-cash payment service market, a lucrative one in Vietnam, is mostly under control of foreign service providers.

 Many activities have been held by Vietnamese people in many countries like Spain, Germany, Laos and Mexico to mark the 128th birth anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh.

 Since the real estate market began to recover in 2014, VN’s laws regulating the market have transformed significantly. But as the laws have developed, many of them overlap, creating redundancies that the Government must now try to eliminate.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a decision to appoint EVN general director Dang Hoang An to the position of deputy minister of industry and trade.

VietNamNet Bridge – Summer - the exciting season of discoveries and festivals - can be the riskiest period of the year for certain diseases, especially living in a tropical country like Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Professor and Architect Hoang Dao Thuy talks to Nhan Dan (People) newspaper about the need to create harmony between the nation’s heritage conservation and development.

 Last month Halcom Viet Nam announced a list of investors who it said are set to buy its shares this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Enhancing regional connectivity is key to fulfilling the tourism potential of the Central Highlands, according to the Government’s master plan on tourism development for the period through 2020.

 The Temple of Literature will host a wide range of cultural activities dedicated to children during the summer holiday, according to Le Xuan Kieu, director of the Temple of Literature’s Culture and Science Centre.

There is a huge opportunity for Viet Nam and the US to expand investment and trade ties in many sectors, a bilateral trade forum heard in HCM City on Friday.