VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese don’t spend as much money on laptops as they did in the past because they have many other choices, from tablets to smartphones.

The HCM City authorities have given the nod to the Saigon Water Supply Company (Sawaco) plan to build underground water reservoirs in some parks in the city which would help ensure water supply after earthquakes and other natural calamities.

VietNamNet Bridge - Articles about school violence and student abuse appear in local newspapers, causing concern among parents.

VietNamNet Bridge - Economists have voiced their concern about the new bank deposit interest rate war, saying this would affect the national economy recovery.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many sexual assault cases at school were only brought to light many years after they occurred. This is because the majority of the victims did not dare report the crime to the police.

VietNamNet Bridge -  Vietnam can exploit coal on the Red River basin on a trial basis with UCG technology (underground coal gasification), and If it is not successful, it should forget about the coal basin, scientists say.

The national oil and gas group PetroVietnam, which has insisted on building biofuel plants as part of a biofuel development strategy, has halted the operation of the Dung Quat bio-ethanol plant.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese parents want to send their children to international schools, but fear that the children would become ‘westernized’ and lose the ‘Vietnamese nature’.

VietNamNet Bridge - Convenience store chains which have been expanded in Vietnam will serve as the important channel for Japanese manufacturers.

Vietnam is following two solutions in a national program to save water – developing technologies which allow people to minimize the consumption of fresh water; and developing low-cost technologies which allow conversion of sea water into fresh water.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam ranks 11th globally in terms of cyberattack threats such as malware spreading, intentional attacks and data theft. 

With the number of children aged 0-14 accounting for 40 percent of the population of 90 million and improved living standards, Vietnam has seen an increase in the world’s famous brands.

VietNamNet Bridge -  After a lot of exertions, engineer Nguyen Quoc Hoa has received the agreement from Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam to carry out trial run with his Hoang Sa submarine on the sea.

VietNamNet Bridge - Damage to a large brackish-shrimp farming area in the Mekong Delta, caused by prolonged drought and saline intrusion, could cause a shortage of shrimp materials for export.

VietNamNet Bridge - While many general schools in inner Hanoi have become overloaded because of a population increase, dozens of land plots reserved for schools cannot be used.

VietNamNet Bridge - A group of Indochina langurs (Trachypithecus phayrei crepusculus), the largest ever, has been discovered in Thanh Hoa province. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Going to vocational schools instead of university tends to be the choice of more students. Reports show workers with good skills can have better incomes than some university graduates.

VietNamNet Bridge - Once the richest millionaire on the stock market, making big money in many business affairs and earning nearly $1 million a day sometimes, Dang Thanh Tam is now pursued by bad luck.

VietNamNet Bridge - At least $5-6 billion is the budget Thai SCG plans to spend on merger & acquisition (M&A) deals in Vietnam from now to 2020.

VietNamNet Bridge - The national foreign exchange reserves have reached $40 billion, the highest level so far, a source from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) said March 24.