VietNamNet Bridge – The State Audit Office of Viet Nam (SAOV) has announced the official figure of the 2014 public debt at more than VND2.28 quadrillion, yet hinting that it might have reached higher than that.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi 2 defeated Son La 2-1 in the 10th round game of the National Women’s Football Championship in HCM City on August 30.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh yesterday asked the Ha Noi People’s Committee to verify information according to which nearly 5,000 people risked having their homes destroyed.

Dr Dao Thi Nga, co-founder and director of the Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development, a Vietnamese non-governmental organisation, was among 15 Biodiversity “Hotspot Heroes” to be honoured

 VietNamNet Bridge – A special programme celebrating the 71st anniversary of the country’s National Day on September 2, will be held in Ha Noi’s Dong Mo area, from September 1 to September 30.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has requested that tuition fees at all education levels should be made public.

 The industry and trade ministry is drafting an action plan for lowering logistics costs to touch 18 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-one teams will take part in the qualifying round of the Thanh Nien Newspaper National U-21 football tournament from October 3 to October 13.

 Alphabet Inc's Google is close to winning PayPal Holdings Inc as a client for its cloud business, potentially beating out Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp, CNBC reported on Tuesday.

The domestic sector has lost the local and export forestry markets to the foreign sector, Huynh Van Hanh, general director of the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of Ho Chi Minh City has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The peaceful beauty of Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago and the life of the soldiers and people there are depicted through 70 photos taken by Nguyen My Tra, a journalist from the Voice of Viet Nam Radio.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has announced how compensation will be paid to people affected by the toxic discharge by a steel plant owned by Taiwanese firm Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation

VietNamNet Bridge – Besides garlic, onion is also a key crop of farmers on Ly Son Island in the central province of Quang Ngai.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A golf tournament to raise scholarship funds for the “Giving strength to students” initiative will begin on September 3 at the Long Thanh golf course in southern Dong Nai Province.

VietNamNet Bridge - The failure of some e-commerce platforms does not reflect the true state of e-commerce, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s E-commerce and Information Agency.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Stage seven of the VTV International Cycling Tournament for the Tôn Hoa Sen Cup was won yesterday (Aug 30) by Huynh Thanh Tung from Military Zone 7 after finishing 134km in 3:16:01 hours.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has expressed his hope to receive more macro-economy policy consultations from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the time ahead.

Hanoi is developing rapidly. In these photos, we can see an interesting blend of the old and the new, of the traditional and the modern of Asian and European architecture.

The Vietnamese government has many times vowed to boost the equitisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), but the process has remained sluggish.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan yesterday received Saysomphone Phomvihane, Politburo member and Chairman of the Lao Front for National Construction Central Committee in Ha Noi.

Thirteen car brands on show at VMS; VN urged to up competitiveness; Government-backed loans to be temporarily halted

The Defence Ministers of China and Vietnam have agreed to deepen defence ties between the two countries, thus bringing pragmatic interests to their people and contributing to peace and stability in the region and the world at large.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hosts Phan Thi Thanh Binh and Ly Hoang Nam of Becamex Binh Duong took women’s and men’s titles at the National Tennis Championships yesterday (Aug 30) in Da Nang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pianist Pho An My will perform the Gio show at Cong Nhan Theatre on October 29. The show is a combination of piano pieces and Vietnamese cheo (traditional opera).

 The European Commission on Tuesday ordered Ireland to reclaim up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in taxes from U.S. technology giant Apple (AAPL.O).