VietNamNet Bridge – The agriculture sector of the central Quang Tri Province on Monday (Aug 8) confirmed deforestation of a protected forest in Vinh Linh District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi’s People’s Committee has approved, in principle, the construction of 1,000 public toilets to serve the local populace and tourists visiting the city.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though many provinces and cities have decided to stop VNEN (the Vietnam Escuela Nueva) methodology, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) said VNEN will still be applied in Vietnam.

From driving accidents to distracted pedestrians and dangerous trespassing, the phenomenal success of Nintendo’s ‘Pokemon GO’ game is fuelling public safety fears throughout Hanoi.

On January 6, 2015, Air Mekong officially left the aviation market after two years of halting operation for restructuring the fleet. The failure of the airline was not only bad news for its shareholders, but also for passengers as well. 

 Entrepreneurs running around 100 start-ups will present their products and innovative ideas to convince investors to invest in their businesses at the 2016 Start-up Exchange to be held in HCM City at the end of this month.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will closely watch credit growth and direct the credit flow into production in the remaining months of this year.

 National hope Ly Hoang Nam defeated No 5 seed Chung Yunseong of South Korea in the first round match of the Vietnam F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament in Binh Duong Province.

 Olympian winner Hoang Xuan Vinh will hunt for his second gold medal, this time in the men’s 50m pistol event tonight in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 Olympic champion and world number one Serena Williams was bundled out of the Rio de Janeiro tennis tournament in the third round of the singles on Tuesday after a shock 6-4 6-3 defeat to Ukraine's Elina Svitolina.

VietNamNet Bridge - After a trial run, Vietnam Tam, the Ministry of Information and Communication’s (MIC) system that measures TV viewers' habits, the first of its kind, is now officially operational.

 Vietnam’s hope for more medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro city Brazil is fading as its athletes performed poorly on August 8, the third day into the games. 

 Vietnam’s total export turnover in the first seven months of the year was 96.83 billion USD, representing an annual increase of 5.3 percent, said Duong Duy Hung, Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Planning Department.

 Michael Phelps seized the 20th Olympic gold medal of a swimming career that keeps on giving with a 200 meters butterfly triumph on Tuesday that avenged his stinging 2012 defeat to South African Chad Le Clos.

 Ensuring cyber and information security is an urgent task as the cyber environment is increasingly exploited for such bad activities as swindling or inciting sabotage schemes against the Party and the State, said Deputy Prime Truong Hoa Binh.

The People’s Court of the northern mountainous province of Lang Son on August 9 sentenced 11 people to death over the illegal storage, transportation and trafficking of 799 cakes of heroin.

 Ho Chi Minh City’s police have warned that players of Pokemon Go - a location-based augmented reality game – would highly become victims of robbers once they are focusing on capturing Pokemon in public areas. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc heads the National Steering Committee on Terrorism Prevention and Control, according to a recent decision. 

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and former Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bhichai Rattakul noted their hope that the strategic partnership between Vietnam and Thailand will be deepened in the time ahead.

VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors of HCM City-based Tu Du Obstetrics Hospital, one of Vietnam’s largest obstetric clinics, on August 4 performed a laparoscopic operation to remove a 5x10cm compress from the belly of a female patient. 

Vietnam saw a big leap in tourist arrivals from Italy, Spain, the UK, Germany and France in the first seven months of this year as its visa waiver for these five Western European markets continued to pay off.

Singaporean investment in Vietnam’s real estates has increased sharply in recent times, said Leow Siu Lin, Singapore Consul-General in Ho Chi Minh City.

When US President Barack Obama met with young Vietnamese at the National Convention Centre in Ha Noi in May during his visit to Viet Nam, a woman presented him with a conical hat and a T-shirt imprinted with the slogan “Save Son Doong”.

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VietNamNet Bridge - Sea water rise and saline intrusion have damaged crops this year, but they have offered opportunities for farmers to breed shrimp on rice fields.