VietNamNet Bridge – After tasting Vietnamese cuisines during his trip to Vietnam, a British man collected more than one million pounds to open a Vietnamese restaurant named "Hộp" (Box) in London.

 Figures on beer and alcohol consumption make Vietnam an attractive market for international beverage companies.

VietNamNet Bridge - High investment rates and uncertain profits are the two reasons why investors do not want to inject money in the waste treatment industry, despite investment incentives offered by the government.

Customs and police officers at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City seized a consignment of military weapons smuggled in on a flight from Turkey, the Tan Son Nhat airport customs office said on July 31. 

Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries and China have agreed to advance negotiations for a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) to a new period, said Malaysian Foreign Minister AnifahAman. 

All four Vietnamese students won medals, including one gold and three silvers, at the freshly-ended International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2015 in Kazakhstan.

A Malayan sun bear that was rescued in a wildlife trafficking case in northern Vietnam was put under the care of Animals Asia and the Vietnam Bear Rescue Center on July 30, local media said.

Vietnam Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong affirmed that the Party, State and people of Vietnam always regards Japan as a development partner of prime importance while presenting his credentials to Emperor Akihito on July 31.

Viet Nam will send four representatives to compete at the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia tomorrow, according to deputy chairman and general secretary of the Viet Nam Aquatic Sports Association Dinh Viet Hung.

Composers Nguyen Hong Thuan and Nguyen Dan recently introduced their album for children featuring the voice of 9-year-old singer Nguyen Ngoc Bao An.

Viet Nam ranked first among the ASEAN countries for the number of country code top-level domains registered, with 318,812 domain names added by June 30.

British companies can participate in infrastructure projects in which HCM City is soliciting foreign investment, the city administration has told a visiting UK Government delegation.

Viet Nam ranks among the top nations in the world in the early diagnosis and treatment of HIV infections.

DakLak Province, the country's largest coffee producer, will replace more than 16,475ha of old coffee trees which have had a low yield from now to 2020.

Viet Nam's first international workshop on building a UN peacekeeping force wrapped up July 31 in Ha Noi after five intensive working days.

Twenty years after the US and Viet Nam established diplomatic relations, bilateral trade turnover has risen 80-fold, and is expected to boom after the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, currently under negotiations, takes effect.

The 2015 socio-economic goals were feasible based on the past seven-month performance and provided efforts continued to be made, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said at the monthly Government meeting in Ha Noi July 31.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To honour Nga's contribution to the cai luong stage, the HCM City Stage Association held a programme entitled Lan Dieu Phuong Nam (Southern Melodies) last April with five cai luong extracts that he had arranged.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In Danang City, people are talking about a coffee shop which uses earnings to do charity work, including giving gifts and free meals to the poor.

Firms see both opportunities and challenges from FTAs, Coffee industry aims to increase added value, Provisional funds hit record high due to new regulations, France seeks beef exports to Vietnam after ban removal

 Ly Son Island district has long been considered the Fatherland’s outpost because of its important strategic position on Vietnam’s East Sea. Let’s take a tour to explore Ly Son in mid-July.

Le Thi Bang Tam, an independent director of the Viet Nam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company, is its new chairperson after Mai Kieu Lien, who was named by Forbes as being among the top 50 powerful business-women in Asia in March,

  Music festivals are an important part of cultural life in the north as winter comes to an end.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The young parents in Da Sar commune of Lac Duong district in Lam Dong province so admire their Korean and foreign movie idols that they have named their children after them.

VietNamNet Bridge - Why has the Kido Group jumped into the banking sector? And why has it chosen the troubled Dong A Bank?