VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts believe Merger & Acquisition (M&A) deals will be quiet for the rest of the year, while deals under negotiation will complete necessary procedures.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam beat East Timor 2-0 to top Group B at the ASEAN Football Federation's U19 Championships yesterday (August 25) in Laos.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Comic Day 2015, the first comic festival to be held in Viet Nam, will be organised in Ho Chi Minh City and Ha Noi on August 30 and September 6, respectively.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal mining of sand from riverbeds continues in the central provinces of Thua Thien – Hue and Quang Binh, despite the local authorities' ban on such activities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A trip to Dai Islet in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long will allow tourists to experience the genuine atmosphere of the southern land with fruits, waterways and rustic cuisine.

 An international group of scientists, beekeepers, farmers and technology companies is using cutting-edge technology to help find out why honey bee populations around the world are crashing.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam economy is expected to see major changes after it signs the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which includes member countries that make up 40 percent of the world’s trade.

VietNamNet Bridge - Overcrowded classes have been a consistent problem in general schools in HCM City, though big money is spent every year to build more classrooms.

The specimens of thousands of millions of years old reflect the evolutionary history of the earth's crust from the primitive age. Each sample bears its own hallmark of the formation, development and extinction in the biota evolutionary sequence.

VietNamNet Bridge - Bac Ninh, in the north, is not only famous for the Dong Ky wooden fine arts craft village, Van Mon aluminum recycling, Da Hoi steel and Phong Khe paper villages, but also for serious pollution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi's transport department has suggested to the capital's People's Committee that the collection of the annual road maintenance fee from motorbike owners should halt from next year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam has asked the transport ministry for a decision to reopen Pleiku Airport in Gia Lai Province,

VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese badminton players won the first matches of the qualifying round at the Yonex Sunrise Viet Nam Open Grand Prix 2015, which began in HCM City on August 24.

 The vast majority of carbon credits generated by Russia and Ukraine did not represent cuts in emissions, according to a new study.

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite the high demand and the fertile market, only 50 percent of Vietnamese owned finance leasing companies have been profitable. 

 A series of explosions at a gas terminal in the western Afghan city of Herat has killed 10 children and an adult, a hospital official says.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japan and the five Southeast Asian countries bordering the Mekong River adopted yesterday (August 24) a blueprint to boost industrialisation in the sub-region.

 Shares in London and elsewhere in Europe rebounded at the start of trading, despite another night of steep falls for the Chinese stock market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pham Binh Minh, received Volker Kauder, parliamentary group leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union of Germany, and the Christian Social Union

Poor logistics and transport infrastructure and customs hassles are the major reasons for Viet Nam's inability to attract Japanese investment, a Japanese trade expert told a conference on investment promotion and logistics in Da Nang late last week.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung expressed his delight at meeting World Bank (WB) Country Director in Viet Nam, Victoria Kwakwa, in Ha Noi yesterday,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Top 35 beauties in the northern qualifying round of the Miss Universe Vietnam 2015 contest were announced on August 23.

The new university enrolment scheme initiated by MOET has not been welcomed by students. Schools fear they cannot find enough candidates, while students fear they may fail to enter university despite high exam scores.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though they believe that Vietnam’s public debt is not as dangerous as some international institutions say, government officials are applying measures to control the debt.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam resolutely opposes the construction by Taiwan of an illegal lighthouse in Ba Binh Island, part of Viet Nam's Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago,