The HCM City People’s Committee has unveiled a programme called “Talent attraction” that will seek to attract experts and scientists to public offices and departments and high-tech parks by offering them financial and other incentives.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2018 Viet Nam Top Fashion Models contest was launched in HCM City this week, with the organisers encouraging young men and women around the country to apply.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four years ago, Doan Viet Ha and Pham Thi Trang of Hai Chau District, central city of Da Nang had their first son thanks to in vitro fertilization (IFV) treatment.

An exhibition of replicas of “sovereignty rocks” and landmarks of the Spratly Archipelago kicked off a wide range of activities organised around the theme “The love of youth and ethnic people for sea and islands”.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dao San, a market located in the northern mountains at an elevation of 1,500m, is not only a rendezvous for local  people to meet each other, trade agricultural products and make friends, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities and people living in the coastal areas of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have taken several measures to prevent saltwater intrusion, including building of dams.

A stone stele created during the reign of King Le Thai To (1428-33) in the northwest mountainous border province of Lai Chau has been recognised as a national treasure and the memorial site for the king has been listed

Local Vietnamese tech companies “are fully capable of” providing the core components of a smart city, said Le Ngoc Tuan, head of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) division in one of the leading IT companies in the country, FPT.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese-German writer Isabelle Muller’s best-selling book Loan-Aus dem Leben eines Phoenix (Loan-From a Life of Phoenix) has been published in Vietnamese.   

The Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB) said the model of an underground station (Terminal C9) for the urban railway project No 2 will be displayed to allow people to give feedback.

 VietNamNet Bridge – V. League 1 club, Becamex Binh Duong have signed their contract with striker Romario Kortzorg of the Netherlands to prepare for the upcoming football season.

 VietNamNet Bridge – When Bui Thi Mai of Nam Dinh Province was unable to find a job that allowed her to make use of her two-year medical diploma, she settled for a job as a factory worker at a local industrial park.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Women’s Museum opened an art exhibition by female artist Van Duong Thanh yesterday to mark International Women’s Day.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in the northern province of Quang Ninh, in co-ordination with Hai Duong Province, arrested a man for rape, after nearly 20 years on the run. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A restaurant in the tourist city of Da Lat, which assaulted two of its customers, has been suspended from operation, the city’s Market Management Board said on Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of chickenpox cases in the south has been on the rise, with many newborn babies getting infected, doctors said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors in hospitals of HCM City have warned of an increase in diseases caused by streptococus pneumoniae bacteria, reported Tin Tuc (News) online newspapers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A dialogue has been held between a working group of the southern Dong Nai Province’s People’s Committee and hundreds of workers of a company whose managers have fled the country.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is expecting the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to continue their technical and financial support for Vietnamese higher educational projects, 

The death of a 20-year-old girl on Monday in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh District that was allegedly caused by an aspiring pop singer after the pair reportedly used crystal methamphetamine, raising concerns about the dangers of the drug.