We should give our kids a better break

Perharps the most often asked question among parents during this time of the year is where to take their kids to play or to learn something now that they are off from school. It’s no easy task to find a suitable place for kids to enjoy themselves during summer time, many parents had to admit.

Please save the trees on Phạm Văn Đồng

Up to 1,300 trees, planted in the 1980s along Phạm Văn Đồng Street in Hà Nội’s western area, will be chopped down to broaden the street and build a bridge on Belt Road No 3, connecting areas of Mai Dịch and Nam Thăng Long.

Stub it out, for the sake of the children

While the number of smokers has slowly declined in recent years thanks to awareness-raising campaigns that have publicised the harmful effects of cigarettes, not much has been done to change smokers’ behavior, especially when it comes to exposing their children to second- hand smoke at home or in public.

Children need to play games, not game shows

Summer is the season that children can rest after nine months of hard work at school. Summer is also when various children’s game shows are broadcast on television to entertain adults.

Too much tech can be harmful to children

Most parents agreed that there are advantages and disadvantages to children using the Internet to help with their studies. However, reality shows that the trend is inevitable and increasingly popular.

VN agriculture needs more than band-aids

A video spreading via Facebook that shows a woman, appearing too hurt to cry, sitting next to a pile of pork covered in black liquid quickly shocked many people over the past few days.

“Zero dollar tour” a poison to local tourism

Tourism experts have long identified “zero dollar tours” as a serious threat to a country’s tourism industry, even as a form of fraud that must be stopped to protect Chinese tourists and local companies.

Home is where the school is. Or is it?

The story of a family that took its two boys out of school to teach them at home in HCM City has been generating public interest after newspapers and social networks reported on it as a successful model.

Cabin pressure: coping with unruly passengers

While the case of the Vietnamese-American passenger dragged off a United Airlines flight in the US last month resonated around the world, another incident of physical violence at an airport, this time in Việt Nam, highlighted the sometimes complex relationships between air passengers and crew.

A common man’s dilemma in fighting crime

The debate will never end, but that is the nature of the topic: should we get involved or intervene in a mugging or a theft, especially in giving chase on a vehicle, or in cutting off a thief by knocking him off a vehicle?

What’s in a name? A nomenclatural dilemma

Urban specialists have been suggestinf since 2015 that Hà Nội number its streets, rather than name them. Currently, most streets are named after people who contributed to the cause of national development.

VN’s young directors like it darker

The author has seen more and more young Vietnamese filmmakers, in particular those who are independent, telling stories filled with violence and prostitution.

A quaint culture we need to embrace, not ban

Many independent cafes and shops in old, atmospheric apartment buildings in downtown Hồ Chí Minh City are now being asked by the municipal authorities to find new locations.

Price ceilings or not, market regulation is a must

Ceiling prices on dairy products for children under six will be removed on April 1. With just three days left until that date, enterprises making and selling the formula products are happy, but mothers with under-six children are anxious.

 

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