Ha Noi’s Transport Department has asked the Ministry of Transport to fix cracks and subsidence that have reappeared on the surface of Thang Long Bridge over the last few months, threatening road safety.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City is seeking funds for 17 flood-control and wastewater treatment projects because of a city budget shortfall, authorities said at a meeting last Thursday.

The Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has instructed Mekong Delta provinces to keep farmers informed about weather and tide conditions so they can harvest crops unprotected by dyke systems.

Chairman of the Ha Noi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has approved the establishment of a centre for disease control based on the restructuring of the Centre for Preventive Medicine in Hanoi. 

Dozens of residents of a mountainous commune in the northern province of Phu Tho fear they may have contracted HIV after receiving allegedly contaminated injections at a private clinic.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A mother, daughter and granddaughter were found dead yesterday after being strangled to death at their home in Chau Thanh District’s Tam Hiep Commune in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly (NA)’s Standing Committee has asked for changes to a draft law that includes animal welfare, animal rights and humane treatment of livestock to be explained.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As reliance on information technology becomes ever more pervasive in society, cybercrime has grown rapidly both in quantity and sophistication in Vietnam, 

VietNamNet Bridge – An increase in the minimum wage moved a step closer yesterday after the National Wage Council agreed to increase basic salaries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Students face several diseases at the beginning of the new school year, such as dengue fever, hand-foot-mouth disease, measles and flu, so epidemic prevention efforts should be strengthened, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Woman with polio shines a light for all with disabilities. Born and raised in a poor family in the southern province of Dong Nai, she contracted polio when she was two-and-a-half years old. 

Having graduated with a degree in biology and environmental studies from the Da Nang Teachers’ Training College, Bui Van Tuan has explored remote forests across central Vietnam to conduct his scientific research

 VietNamNet Bridge – We took a trip to Vac Village in the western part of the central province of Nghe An. On Google Map, Vac Village is just a small dot that appears very far away.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On a bright Sunday morning, 10-year-old Doan Nhat Minh joins his friends at an English class to take a walk around Hoan Kiem Lake in downtown Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – One of the top luxury designers in Vietnam, Luis Antonio Torres, believes the country could become Southeast Asia’s biggest fashion hub.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Floods are a growing problem across the country. Inspired by the diversity of forests, a natural dyke project near Hoi An shows one solution. 

Fashion designer Si Hoang has been working as a stage costume designers for many years with a large number of his products used in large-scale productions including two produced by the Viet Nam Cheo Theatre and the Ha Noi Drama Theatre

The Viet Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment has recognised a group of 400 Po Mu trees in the forest of mountainous Tay Giang District in Quang Nam Province as Heritage Trees.

Hung Yen Province People’s Procuracy has completed the prosecution procedures against Nguyen Thi Hien from Da Trach Commune in Khoai Chau District for her violations of regulations on health examination.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of houses along the Da Nang – Quang Ngai Highway are being damaged by construction on the road.