LIFESTYLE

Two Vietnamese technology start-ups, namely Haravan and ELSA Speak, were selected to participate in the Google Launched Accelerator programme and given US$50,000 in financial support from Google.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Dan Hospital on March 20 conducted the first stomach cancer surgery with robot arms for a male patient, 54, from the Mekong Delta Dong Thap Province.

A ceremony was held on March 19 to honour ten outstanding youths selected by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s Central Committee and the Fund for Vietnamese Young Talents in 2016.

The Australia-Vietnam Young Leadership Dialogue have selected 20 young leaders representing Australia and Vietnam as delegates to its inaugural dialogue in Sydney during May 15-18.

The owner of a Bun cha restaurant in Hanoi has renovated an old bus and turned it into a restaurant.

Two 12-grade pupils in Can Tho City have made a robot to clean a blackboard.

HCM City will allow business activities on pavements in some streets in the Pham Ngu Lao Ward in District 1 according to a new draft plan.

On accepting the invitation by the World Wood Day Foundation (WWDF), Vietnamese water puppet artist Phan Thanh Liêm will attend World Wood Day 2017 as a guest of honour.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến has been conferred the honourary title of visiting professor by the University of Oxford for a second term, from 2016 to 2021.

Vang Thi Mai, owner of a textile workshop in Ha Giang Province which generates jobs for hundreds of workers, has been named among top 50 most influential women by Forbes Vietnam Magazine.

Forbes Vietnam has announced the list of the 50 most influential Vietnamese women in 2017, 20 of whom are businesswomen.

The Government will closely coordinate with the Vietnam Women’s Union and local authorities to listen to women’s aspirations and to create the most favourable conditions possible in which for women to participate actively in public life.

The Japanese government has given a VND225bn non-refundable aid to the VND243bn project to clean the channel runs through Japanese Bridge in Hoi An Town.

Two Vietnamese individuals from the central province of Thua Thien Hue were awarded with the French Government’s Order of Academic Palms for their role in promoting cross-cultural exchange and education ties between the province and France.

Local authorities in Quang Nam Province's Tam Thanh Commune are cooperating with artists from Singapore in an ecotourism project which aims to introduce local life and culture to visitors.

Hanoi’s Bach Mai Hospital has launched its surgical robot systems for joint and neurosurgery operations with progress in treatment, making it the first medical facility in Vietnam to employ the technology.

Tired of the noise, a man in the central province of Quang Ngai has opted to live alone in the deep forest for the past 20 years.

Vietnam has been ranked 86th out of 118 countries in the annual Global Talent Competitiveness Index, which measures how countries grow, attract and retain talent.

Vietnam’s young businesspeople Dao Lan Huong has been selected as one of 15 entrepreneurs to take part in the Australia-ASEAN Emerging Leaders Programme (A2ELP), which was scheduled to take place in Melbourne and Sydney in March.