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Trung wins men’s singles title of VTF Pro Tour 4

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Thanh Trung won the men’s singles title of the VTF Pro Tour 4 – Hưng Thịnh Cup 2018 which concluded at Phu Tho Tennis Complex in HCM City on Monday.

International artists to gather at Month of Art Practice

 VietNamNet Bridge – The project Month of Arts Practice 2018 (MAP) called Visible/Invisible has begun in Hanoi, gathering local and foreign artists.

Health ministry tightens control over hand-foot-mouth disease

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health on Monday afternoon asked local authorities and hospitals nationwide to strengthen preventive measures to control the spread of hand-foot-mouth disease.

HCM City must pick up economic pace

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s economy needs to pick up pace to achieve this year’s growth targets, a meeting held yesterday to review socio-economic development in the first nine months heard.

Ant’s egg rice cakes, a Tuyen Quang specialty

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bánh nếp nhân trứng kiến, glutinous rice cakes filled with ant eggs, are a specialty of the Tay, an ethnic group that has existed for hundreds of years in the northern province of Tuyen Quang.

Police propose points system for driving offences

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security has considered proposing a demerit point system to tackle driving offences.

Kien wins gold at world wushu taijiquan champs

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s Pham Ngoc Kien won gold at the third World Taijiquan Championships in Bulgaria on Sunday.

Probe launched into parking scam

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi police on Monday announced the launch of an investigation into an alleged parking racket that might involve tens of billions dong at the city’s biggest wholesale market of Long Bien.

HCM City hospital to begin health tourism service

Trinh Huu Tung, Meritorious Doctor and Director General of the Ho Chi Minh City Paediatric Hospital No. 2, speaks to Khoa học & Đời sống newspaper on his hospital’s plan to offer a new health tourism model

Self-financing the right path for Vietnamese universities

Vu Minh Giang, Chair of Scientific and Training Council of the Viet Nam National University, talks to the newspaper Công Thương on how to improve the competitiveness for university graduates in the labour market.

Life’s no drag for the Queens of Hanoi

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mirror space is at a premium at a bar on the edge of the Old Quarter. But only on one particular night.

Hospitals should give parents a place to stay

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four days after last Monday’s fire near National Children’s Hospital in Hanoi, two human skulls were found in the rubble.

About 42,700 hand, foot, mouth disease cases detected in nine months

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam detected more 12,200 hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) patients nationwide last month, according to latest statistics by the Ministry of Health.

Mekong Delta craft villages busy in peak season

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local people in craft villages that make fishing nets and other tools are now busy serving the needs of fishermen during the annual flooding season.

Transparency critical to seize opportunities

 VietNamNet Bridge – The US-China trade war is escalating sharply. In the most recent move, the US imposed a 10 per cent tariff starting from Monday on US$200 billion of Chinese imports. 

Agricultural by-products improve farmers’ income, benefit environment

 VietNamNet Bridge – The use of agricultural by-products for feeding livestock and as substrate for other crops has helped farmers around the country earn extra incomes while also protecting the environment.

Australian military aircraft carries Vietnamese peacekeepers to South Sudan

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s first contingent to participate in a UN peacekeeping mission left HCM City for South Sudan on Tuesday morning on Australia’s largest military transport aircraft.

Hunt for old comic series begins in HCM City

 VietNamNet Bridge – Collectors of HCM City are hunting for comic series published in Vietnam 20-30 years ago.

Electronic toll booth construction to be sped up

In a bid to resolve obstacles to implement the national electronic toll collection (ETC) project, the Government has allowed the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to decide how much revenue to extract from BOT projects

Film on cai luong to compete in Tokyo Film Festival

 VietNamNet Bridge – Movie star and producer Ngo Thanh Van’s latest film, Song Lang (The Tap Box), will compete in the Tokyo International Film Festival 2018 (TIFF) next month.