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.

 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.

 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.

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

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

 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.

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

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.

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

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

 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.

 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.

 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. 

 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.

 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.

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

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

 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.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi is working on gradually digitising the household registration books of over 7.6 million residents, a move to simplify administrative procedures related to residence management.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Chư Pưh District of Gia Lai Province has recently traded its reputation as a pepper-growing capital of the Central Highlands for a very different moniker: “the land of debt”.