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.
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.
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.
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.
A new drama-comedy film has been taking young Vietnamese audiences by storm, achieving dramatic commercial success since its premiere on April 28.
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.
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.
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.
A new book street opened last weekend in Hà Nội to the warm welcome of many, if not most city residents.
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.
Parents should understand that children need sleep as much as they need food to function and stay healthy.
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?
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.
Filling Thành Công Lake's proposal: city must say no
The author has seen more and more young Vietnamese filmmakers, in particular those who are independent, telling stories filled with violence and prostitution.
“Man bites dog,” is an old journalistic aphorism that remarks on how the unusual is more newsworthy (than a dog biting a man).
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.
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.
The film Kong: Skull Island, shot in Quảng Bình, Ninh Bình, and Quảng Ninh Provinces last year, has been drawing a lot of attention from Vietnamese authorities, media outlets, and citizens.
From the happiest to among the unhappiest? It is a sobering thought that Vietnam has been ranked 94th of 155 countries in the UN’s World Happiness Report 2017.
