VietNamNet Bridge – The number of assaults against medical workers climbed to a record high last year, with 25 cases reported to the police. Hospital violence stayed in the headlines year-round,

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a major shift in perspective, the Government is viewing small scale projects as the best, most sustainable way of tapping the nation’s hydropower potential.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A little dog waiting at a gate, a stone dog statue guarding a door and a mother dog clinging to her babies are three of the paintings at an exhibition currently underway in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon Heat lost to Singapore Slingers 76-94 in the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) match on February 25 in Singapore.

The Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has warned about the threat of bird flu outbreak following one A/H5N6 bird flu outbreak recorded in the past 21 days in Dai Ban Commune, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Actress Tue Minh, widely known for her roles in Vietnamese classic movies of Revolutionary Cinema from the 1950-1960, passed away on her 80th birthday in Hanoi.

Nguyen Hai An, 7, of Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem District, took her last breath on February 22. But before she passed away in her K Hospital sickbed, she and her mother agreed that she would give her cornea to children

Three major spring festivals – the Mother Au Co Temple Festival, the Tinh Dien (Ploughing) Festival and the Vieng Market Festival – began on Fiday, as part of the festive season in the north of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – V.League 1 club, SHB Da Nang have signed Brazilian striker Diogo Pereira from Becamex Binh Duong ahead of the upcoming season.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An art exhibition entitled Ho Guom Mua Xuan (Sword Lake and Spring) kicked off last week at the Hoan Kiem Cultural House, 2 Le Thai To Street.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of people are flocking to the Yen Tu Spring Festival, the largest annual festival in northern Vietnam, which began Sunday in Uong Bi City, Quang Ninh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dr. Mark Roberts in Melbourne, Australia and retired Vietnamese Nguyen Ba Khuyen write some thoughts on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of bilateral ties (26/2/1973 – 26/2/2018).

This year, the Ministry of Education and Training will decide minimum entrance score for only teacher training institutions while minimum entrance scores for other universities, colleges and vocational schools will be scrapped.

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.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) has signed a contract with German fitness coach Dominic Palmer.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of electronics manufacturers in Vietnam are having difficulty recruiting labourers, said an official from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

To make a name for oneself in a foreign country is no mean feat, but to do that in Japan, that too in the early seventies and eighties, takes extraordinary resolve and perseverance, qualities that Tran Ngoc Phuc has displayed in ample measure.

A new year has come bringing with it, as usual, many new opportunities and challenges. Many entrepreneurs and researchers believe Vietnam will enjoy good growth this year, and they see good prospects for many sectors. 

The use of made-in-Vietnam medicines at provincial-level hospitals has risen to 35.4 per cent since the Ministry of Health initiated an ongoing project named “Vietnamese people give priority to using made-in-Vietnam medicines” in 2012.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in central Thua Thien-Hue Province have started breeding eels to prevent the fish species from becoming extinct.