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Youth, kids become agents of change

 VietNamNet Bridge – Children of poor families living in the vicinity of the Cai Rang Floating Market in Can Tho City are suddenly eager to go to Sunday school.

New Zealand quake evacuees get food, shelter, wifi in Christchurch

 Two people were killed and dozens injured by the magnitude 7.8 quake - two nearly simultaneous tremors that ruptured faultlines across the top of the ruggedly beautiful South Island.

To nurture childrens’ love of the environment

Starting the new school year, fourth-graders from the Hanoi Academy primary school had a chance to join in some very interesting and meaningful activities: making handbags from old newspapers and growing black-bean plants

29 people killed in two separate bus accidents in Nepal

 Nepal's Home Ministry said that as many as 29 people were killed and 72 people were injured in two separate bus accidents that took place in Kavrepalanchowk district in central Nepal and Baitadi district in far-western Nepal on Monday.

Volunteers provide health care for homeless

It’s 11pm on Saturday night. When most of the houses have turned off their lights and darkness covers the city, Le Ha Phuong, a second-year student at Ha Noi College of Medicine wears her first aid bag filled with medical supplies ...

Happy colorful run 2016 in pictures

 VietNamNet Bridge - As many as 850 young people held each other’s hands to run and arranged the map of Vietnam in the event "Happy color run 2016" at Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake on Sunday.

Volunteers try to make a difference

VietNamNet Bridge – Be it cleaning up beaches or offering free haircuts to elderly people, a group of volunteers in Hoi An have taken it upon themselves to offer their support to the local community.

English specialist helps spread the word

 VietNamNet Bridge – Teacher Hoang Duc Huy is passionate about bringing English to disadvantaged areas. He started the Help to Fly Project and created a website with free English lessons for all ages.

A charity coffee shop

 VietNamNet Bridge – In Danang City, people are talking about a coffee shop which uses earnings to do charity work, including giving gifts and free meals to the poor.

Volunteers lend wings to kids' imagination

 VietNamNet Bridge – Enthusiastic teachers and students in disadvantaged areas are benefitting hugely from an initiative to set up free libraries that give them access to books and other reading material.

Tourism volunteers in Hanoi

 VietNamNet Bridge – ‘Ask me anything’, a volunteer group, offers free guidance to tourists, especially foreign visitors to Hanoi, which helps create a friendlier image of the city.

Volunteers swing into action for season of exams

 VietNamNet Bridge – As more than a million students sat for the national high school exam yesterday, volunteers with the programme Give Strength During Exam Season were busy helping candidates from other provinces

Singapore fights match-fixing

VietNamNet Bridge – Singapore on Tuesday pledged to take tough action against fraud in sports. 

Ebola crisis: First large-scale vaccine trials to begin

 The first large-scale trials of an experimental vaccine against Ebola are due to begin in Liberia.

Social News 20/1

 Tet trees in a jar win fans in Hanoi; Ministry seeks to treat truck overloads as criminal offense; Goats for poor go to local cadre; Patients complain about overprescribing; Mekong Delta strives for 4.5 percent poverty rate in 2015

Social News 19/1

Court jails 27 for gambling; Binh Duong, Eindhoven city step up cooperation; Vietnam strives to reduce poverty rate; Firms pledge price stabilization at Tet; Seven cities funded to improve urban planning

Volunteers build eco-playgrounds

 VietNamNet Bridge – A group of children play cheerfully at the Red River middle bank in Ha Noi. Their laughter resounds among the immense maize and banana crops.

Social News 6/1

 Goat-related items hot as 2015 Lunar New Year approaches; Minister warns train project's contractor over safety violations; Int’l workshop highlights Vietnam’s sea, island cultural values; Guests flee HCM City hotel fire

Volunteers swing into action for exam season

VietNamNet Bridge – More than one million candidates sat for the university entrance examinations today, July 4.

Hanoi grapples with purulence of false taxis

Authorities in Hanoi are trying to deal with thousands of taxis operating in the city, whose licenses are from other provinces.