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Rapid urbanisation stressing Hanoi's traffic infrastructure

 Although the Hoang Mai district's Linh Nam street in the south of Ha Noi is just three kilometres long, five apartment projects are under construction in this area.

HCM City metro lines blighted by costly incompetence

 VietNamNet Bridge – Managers of two metro lines under construction in HCM City have been questioned over their massive budget overruns.

Vietnam PM to attend ASEAN summit in Malaysia

 A Vietnam high-ranking delegation led by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his spouse will attend the 27th ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Malaysia on November 21-22. 

Mekong program yet to help improve engineering training quality

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ten years have passed since a program for training 1,000 post-graduates in the Mekong Delta region, but the number of people sent abroad for higher education is below the target.

Classics are music to youth orchestra's ears

 VietNamNet Bridge – The young stars of the Maius Philharmonic Orchestra, the first ensemble of its kind, play symphonies, jazz and pop hits with equal passion.

What SCIC would live on after selling 10 profitable businesses?

VietNamNet Bridge - Questions have been raised about the role of the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) and about what it would do after it sells all valuable assets.


Workers in dire need of housing

 VietNamNet Bridge – In five years, about one million low-income workers across the country will be in need of cheap housing, said Chairman of the Viet Nam Federation of Civil Engineering Associations, Tran Ngoc Hung in a conference.

Vietnamese produce rubber, foreign-invested enterprises make tires

VietNamNet Bridge - A well-developed automobile market, an abundant rubber supply, a cheap labor force and reasonable tax policies all help make Vietnam an attractive market for foreign tyre manufacturers.

Resources employed

Nguyen Manh Dzung, Head of the Vietnam & Thailand Office of CyberAgent Ventures, spoke about the challenges for and the potential of the sharing economy model in Vietnam.

Saigon Railway to launch tours to central Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon Railway Company and the tourism associations of HCMC, Khanh Hoa, Binh Thuan, Binh Dinh and Phu Yen have clinched a deal to open railway tours from HCMC to the four south-central provinces.

New Zealand PM arrives on official visit

 New Zealand Prime Minister John Key arrives in Viet Nam today to begin his official visit to the country from November 14 to 17 at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Vietnam team wins cyber tournament

 A Vietnamese team won the first place at the 2015 Cyber SEA Games in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday.

Juvenile delinquency on upward trend in Vietnam: police

 Juvenile delinquents are on the rise and their crimes are more horrific, according to the Police Department for Administrative Management of Social Order (C64). 

Vietnam’s plan to borrow billions of dollars raises concern

VietNamNet Bridge - Just within three months, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) has announced a series of plans to borrow money for the state budget totaling $5.3 billion. 

No big FTA impacts on Vietnam for 2016

 There will be no significant change in the Vietnamese economy next year even though a number of free trade agreements and the Trans-Pacific Partnership will take effect, the head of a government think tank has said.

An ‘avant-garde' take on religious performance

VietNamNet Bridge – Outside the usual scope of performances tourists attend - mostly water puppetry - exists the Viet Theatre's artistic interpretation of len dong, a traditional ritual in which a medium is posessed by several deities.

Investors seek information about sale of 10 big SOEs

VietNamNet Bridge - All 10 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) the state plans to put on sale soon are big players in their fields, creating interest among institutional investors.

Gov't can't tell firms what to do: Deputy PM

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai says enterprises should utilise opportunities when the country joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper interviews.

Vietnam tycoons betting on agriculture sector

VietNamNet Bridge - While big conglomerates have poured money into agricultural production projects, many of them cannot reap fruit. 

Scaling the heights with indoor climbing

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rock climbing was first introduced to Vietnam in 2006 by foreign climbers. The sport is now becoming more popular and attracting an increasing number of local young people.