VietNamNet Bridge – A series of the popular TEDx talks will run this entire week in Ha Noi, beginning today at 6pm.

 Magnificent Phong Nha-Ke Bang Park shines light at cave festival, Ancient Duong Lam Village gets a new reading corner, Drama troupe aims at kids

 It is necessary for Vietnam and the US to enhance cooperation in culture, sports and tourism, specifically through art performances, concerts and exhibitions to increase mutual understanding and people-to-people exchanges.

 Sappers in the central province of Quang Tri deactivated a bomb weighing over 200 kilograms in Trieu Trach commune, Trieu Phong district on August 10. 

Hanoi organised a flag hoisting ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affair on August 7 to mark Vietnam's 20-year membership entry to ASEAN and the bloc's 48th founding anniversary.

 Ha Noi may pave more streets with natural stone, Mekong Delta need for trained workers, Greater efforts needed to tackle thermal power plant waste, Armed thief nabbed after hiding on mountain in central Vietnam

 The student duo, Chu Khanh Vy from Hanoi’s University of Industrial Fine Art, and Nicola Luey from Auckland University of Technology won the first prize worth NZ$2,000 at the first New Zealand-Vietnam Fashion Collaboration project.

 Vietnam’s chess prodigy Nguyen Anh Khoi took top honour in both the rapid and blitz chess events of the 2015 Asian Youth Chess Championships, taking place in Suwon, the Republic of Korea from August 4 to 10.

 VietNamNet Bridge - "Dieu Con Mai" (Things Everlasting) Concert, held by VietNamNet Newspaper, will come back to the stage to mark the 70th Independence Day on September 2 after a one year hiatus.

 Environmentalists warn recent prolonged flooding in northern Quang Ninh Province has washed tonnes of coal dust and metal into Halong Bay, threatening its fragile ecosystem.

 The People’s Committee of Kien Giang Province has approved a project on building a cable car system linking An Thoi Town and Hon Thom Isle on Phu Quoc Island, a district of the province.

 Ho Chi Minh City doctors managed to carry out an operation to temporarily save the life of an 11-day-old baby who was stabbed in the head by a stranger, said deputy director of the Children Hospital No.1 Dao Trong Hieu on August 8.

 British Council in Vietnam yesterday honored and granted to the Vietnamese student winning IELTS Prize for Applicants of East Asia Region and Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2015 Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Forum will be held in HCM City on October 30.

 The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the General Department of Taxation (GDT) have released a report on business satisfaction with the reform of taxation procedures in 2014.

 Vietnam continues to grow as a manufacturing destination and topped the Growth Index in the Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) Manufacturing Index 2015 report released recently.

 The Airport Corporation of Viet Nam is planning to expand Phu Quoc International Airport's passenger terminal in southern Kien Giang Province next year, with investment capital of VND1 trillion (US$46.15 million).

BIDV has signed a comprehensive cooperative agreement for an international five-year loan contract valued at $105 million, and an agreement on money transfer with Cathay United Bank, the largest financial holding company in Taiwan.

 The 6thIUCN Asia Regional Conservation Forum kicked off on Monday with a strong focus on bringing together a wide diversity of sectors to forge solutions to the region’s pressing environment and development challenges.

 Viet Nam's Le Quang Liem still has a small chance of entering the top three ranking of the Asian Continental Chess Championship in the United Arab Emirates.

 Viet Nam won team and individual prizes at the first International High School Students' Photo Festival Exchange in Higashikawa, Japan, that ran from August 4-10.

 The battle for sustainability will be won – or lost – in Asia. Although it seemsdramatic, the concept is not far-fetched.

VietNamNet Bridge - BOT (build, operation, transfer), believed to be a good solution to transport projects’ problems, turns out to have a dark side. 

 Google has unveiled a surprise restructuring, creating a new parent company called Alphabet Inc.

A tour to Ninh Binh may include trips to popular places like Tam Coc - Bich Dong and Trang An tourist area. However, a silent beauty, often unnoticed, sits in this part of the country that is truly worth the stop: the Van Long Lagoon.