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“If things go smoothly, we can expect a direct flight between Vietnam and Los Angeles by the end of 2019 or early 2020,” Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles’ Mayor, told a local newspaper recently.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese technology engineers are respected in multi-nationals as they have high qualifications and work hard.

 Vietnam is willing to cooperate with the Czech Republic to address difficulties in granting long-term visas for Vietnamese nationals for the purposes of employment or business in the European country.

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of construction works granted green building certificates in Vietnam remains modest, but is rapidly rising.

VietNamNet Bridge - Blockchain technology has become more popular and used in many industries, driving up demand for staff. 

 Starting early next year, EU investors will be able to tender for several types of public infrastructure projects in Vietnam for the first time under EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement commitments.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bow Thunyarat, a traveler from Bangkok, Thailand, never expected her trip to Vietnam last January to start so easily.

 Australian researchers say for the first time an entire city has been protected from viral disease dengue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – If it were not for the stench and the muddy colour of the waters, one could imagine it was Venice.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are struggling to fight floodwaters caused by heavy rains, rising tides and water released in the wake of a dam breach in Laos.

Residents of Vu Hoi Commune in Vu Thu District of northern Thai Binh Province have to pass a large rubbish dump to get to the communal clinic. The pile, as tall as a grown man, is located just 100 metres from the clinic 

The People’s Committee of the southern province of Dong Nai has submitted for approval from the PM an evaluation of land reclamation, compensation and resettlement for the Long Thanh International Airport.

 In an effort to improve the business environment, the Vietnamese government is accelerating the implementation of the National Single Window and the ASEAN Single Window to boost trade within ASEAN.

Giant corporations from the US, Switzerland and France are rushing into Vietnam to invest in promising liquefied natural gas-to-power projects.

VietNamNet Bridge - The anticipated oversupply and unclear legal status have prompted many investors to give up investments in condotel projects.

 Con Cung JSC is set to be sued by one of its customers due to alleged evidence of false advertising of their products.

The long-awaited race to become a strategic investor in state-run shipping giant Vinalines turned out to be less fierce than expected, with only one South Korean conglomerate registering for the deal.

HCM City People's Procuracy on Wednesday proposed the death sentence for a transnational drug trafficking group which smuggled 37 kilogrammes of heroin and methamphetamines over the border from Cambodia.

 More than 1,000 people are expected to join a campaign to clean Quy Nhon City beaches in Binh Dinh Province.

 The Uzbek U23s and Palestine’s Olympic team arrived in Hanoi on August 1 for the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) U23 International Championship - Vinaphone Cup 2018.

Landmark 81- a super-tall skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City-provides visitors with majestic views of the city.

 The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting predicts that one or more tropical low pressure systems with storm potential to hit the East Sea and affect the mainland in August.

 A Cambridge professor who won one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, the Fields Medal, has had his award stolen in Brazil.

 The Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine on August 1 warned citizens to apply drastic measures to prevent dengue fever spreading, after a person reportedly died of the disease in Ho Chi Minh recently.