VietNamNet Bridge – The lack of clean water was affecting 1 million Vietnamese each year, the Government's portal chinhphu.vn reported from a conference held in Ha Noi on Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For at least 40 years, hundreds of households in Huong Khe District in the central province of Ha Tinh have had to survive using water resources contaminated with petroleum.

A number of projects to supply freshwater to Mekong Delta provinces are still on paper as local authorities lack sufficient capital to implement them.

VietNamNet Bridge – A small village, covering an area of 0.4 square kilometers with households comprising 1,000 people, is turning into a new “cancer village” north of Hanoi.

Residents in Vinh Quynh commune of Thanh Tri district in Hanoi have been told not to use water from drilled wells, but they insist they only have well water to use.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the past two years, hundreds of people resettled due to natural disasters have been forced to use water from stagnant ponds as their resettlement area lacks clean water.

VietNamNet Bridge – A lonesome journey by a certain individual can be the beginning of a trail, and a broad pathway later when others find the common goal at the end of the road.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi was running short of clean water, the two water companies serving the capital warned at a recent meeting last week.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The government has set a goal of providing 60 liters of clean water per person per day to rural areas by 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – By the end of June, 84 per cent of the rural population was using water from water plants, but only half of them had access to clean water that satisfied Ministry of Health criteria.

The malware recently spread via email, disguised as a document promoting Vietnam’s sovereignty over its airspace and waters, is being sent from a Chinese company, a local Internet security firm warned Friday.

A  July 8 meeting in HCM City marking World Population Day announced that on a per capita basis, Vietnam has one of the five highest abortion rates in the world.

Many Hanoians often lack clean water because the pipeline, made with low-cost Chinese technology, often breaks down.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Unable to access the city’s tap-water resources, Ho Chi Minh City’s suburbanites must use water from wells they dig themselves. But the underground water is getting seriously polluted.

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A truck moving at high speed lost control and overturned in Saigon river tunnel, Ho Chi Minh City, at 1.40 pm on November 25.

Many people have been tricked out of money in a rush to buy low-cost plane tickets as the busy year-end season approaches.

VietNamNet Bridge – The nation has set to obtain an average economic growth rate of 6% per year in 2014-2015, according to PM Nguyen Tan Dung's Government report at the National Assembly's sixth session

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has approved new policies on providing residential and production land as well as ensuring clean water supplies for poor ethnic minorities and underprivileged households in disadvantaged areas during the 2013-15 period.