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Youth channel aims at digital natives

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Television’s channel 6 (VTV6, the youth channel) has become a site for digital natives, especially those born between the years 1985 and 2000.

Big crowd likely for music festival

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 10,0000 people are expected to attend a music festival aimed at connecting all people together despite their age or interests.

Young artists dominate top 5 of Zing Music Awards 2017

Young Vietnamese singers — Min, Son Tung and Huong Tram, whose hits have garnered millions of views on Youtube — dominate the top five in all categories of the Zing Music Awards 2017,

HCM City to focus on evening activities, better security for tourists

 VietNamNet Bridge – Travel experts have urged HCM City to classify its tourism activities into specific groups with development potential, such as shopping tourism, community tourism and river tourism.

Contemporary, classic ballets to be staged at Opera House

Ballets by Vietnamese and international choreographers will appear on stage at the HCM City Opera House on January 19, with the night’s highlight being a new contemporary ballet titled Falling Angels choreographed

HCM City civil servants’ income to rise

 VietNamNet Bridge – The average income of civil servants from HCM City is expected to increase this year but will not exceed 1.8 times their main salaries, according to Le Thanh Phong, 

Dr Linh fights off sorcerers

During 30 years’ work on Phu Quy Island in the East Sea in the central province of Binh Thuan, Dr Bui Dinh Linh has treated so many serious cases and saved so many lives that he is referred to affectionately as "Uncle Linh”.

Agriculture gets nuclear boost

Le Duc Thao, Director of the Department on Advantages and Disadvantages of Mutation at the Agriculture Genetics Institute, talks to the newspaper Lao dong about the application of nuclear technology

Industry 4.0 response has to happen in real life

Chu Ngoc Anh, Minister of Science and Technology, talks to Viet Nam News Agency about advantages that the fourth industrial revolution presents to the country and steps that need to be taken to tap them.

Poet becomes publishing phenomenon

HCM City-based poet Nguyen Phong Viet has become a publishing phenomenon after selling a total of 120,000 copies of poetry collections. Now he has released 5,000 copies of a new collection titled Sao Phai Dau Den Nhu Vay

Weather project helps minority women battle climate change

 VietNamNet Bridge – The climate in the valley of Muong Phang in the mountainous Dien Bien Province is no longer as it was over previous centuries. But the change has brought some benefits to local farmers.

Clean-up success at lead recycling village

After a hard day’s work, labourers in the lead recycling industrial area of Chi Dao Commune in northern Hung Yen Province are required to leave their contaminated clothes at work, bathe and then change into clean clothes

Photographer A gets entranced by a traditional ritual

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen A is bewitched by the hau dong ritual, where a medium goes into a trance and incarnates as various deities.

Watching a 3D movie save a life

 VietNamNet Bridge – At half-past 10 in the morning, the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB pump) started running, making a steady sound.

Miss Ocean told to step down

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Department of Performing Arts ordered the organising board of Miss Ocean 2017 to dethrone Le Au Ngan Anh, winner of the beauty pageant, for failing to satisfy the requirements of the contest.

Kien Giang names three tourist zones

The People’s Committee in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has recognised the Nam Du Archipelago and Lai Son Island in Kien Hai District and Hai Tac Archipelago in Ha Tien Town as local tourist zones.

Firecracker smuggling increases ahead of Tet

 VietNamNet Bridge – Firecracker smuggling is on the rise as the Tet (Lunar New Year) approaches.

Lack of care leads to elephant rampages

For centuries, residents in Phuc Son Commune, central province of Nghe An have lived comfortably with wild elephants, but as bamboo forests - the main diet of many elephants - are replaced with industrial trees, 

Vietnamese tennis players shine at Asian U14 tournament

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vo Quoc Uy of Vietnam had an easy win at the International Tennis Federation Asia U14 and U Development Championships, Division 2, in HCM City yesterday.

Police uncover bullet warheads in Hung Yen

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local police on Tuesday found a large amount of bullet warheads stored in a household garden in Dan Tien Commune in the northern province of Hung Yen’s Khoai Chau District.