VietNamNet Bridge - The government has told investors not to build coal thermal power plants if they don’t have solutions to treat ash, thus causing pollution.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Visitors to the famous beach city of Nha Trang all choose Tran Phu, the busiest coastal road, as the center for all activities during their holidays. 

 Foreign investors are showing interest in Vietnam’s infantile solar power sector, although a lack of state support mechanisms may hinder progress.

 The World Bank has gained public service users feedback to help specific agencies judge their performance and take remedial action where needed.

A young man, introducing himself as a new university graduate and a young father who needs money to buy milk for child, was seen standing on a Hanoi street with a board in his hands, showing that he wanted a job.

 Modern technology has a lot going for it but parents must keep an eye on how long their kids use it and what they use it for.

VietNamNet Bridge - Contrary to all predictions, economists have reassured the public that the weaker dong will not worsen the public debt burden of the state.

 The poverty rate has reduced dramatically in rural households from 27.1 per cent in 2012 to 13.2 per cent in 2014 while access to public services such as vocational and educational training and health care has improved.

 On Saturday and Sunday mornings, visitors to Tao Dan Park in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 can hear the sweet sound of violin coming from a corner in the park.

 The competitive power generation market would become operational expeditiously by 2018, together with the pilot implementation of competitive wholesale power market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Real estate firms all have confirmed a significant increase in the number of buyers from overseas recently, both overseas Vietnamese and foreigners.

Beautiful Korea and Taipei, ancient Yangon and the shoppers’ paradises of Bangkok and Singapore are all awaiting visitors following the news that Vietjet is giving away 400,000 promotional tickets on all its domestic and international routes.

 Thousands of labourers from north-west provinces have worked illegally in foreign countries.

 Brain cells in Parkinson's disease exhaust themselves and die prematurely, burning out like an "overheating motor", an early study suggests.

 VietNamNet Bridge - "Over the past 25 years, the aging disease has dogged and abused me. I feel like I’m imprisoned in hell on earth, living is worse than death,” said Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai, the 31-year-old woman in Hoi An town who has aged 50 years.

 Vietnamese farmers are crying foul now that the nation’s markets are inundated with cheap US chicken and they fear that not only the industry but their way of life are threatened.

 Dam me (Passion), directed by Phi Tien Son, will be on screen at the upcoming fourth ASEAN film festival in Prague, as heard during a press conference held in the Czech Republic on August 26.

  Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the State Capital Investment Corporation to work with the Ministries of Health and Science and Technology to map out a project to build an industrial-scale vaccine production plant in the country.

Vietnam targets US$300 billion export turnover by 2020, India pours US$400 mil in 101 projects in Vietnam, Foreign suppliers may have to build seed factories in Vietnam, EVN earns US$43.6 million from divestment

 Apple Inc. has chosen FPT Shop and The gioi di dong (Mobile World) as its two main retailers to directly import its hi-tech products from Apple Singapore.

 The Ministry of Transport has asked the Government to permit pilot implementation of a project to apply information technology in the management of contract-based passenger transportation (Grabcar) developed by GrabTaxi Vietnam.

 The crew of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) wrapped up their 10-day visit in Da Nang, Vietnam Aug. 28, completing the ship’s last mission stop of Pacific Partnership 2015.

 Viet Nam grabbed two bronze medals at the World Xiangqi (Chinese chess) Championships which wrapped up in Germany yesterday.

 For the first time over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg.

VietNamNet Bridge - Bank shares and state-owned enterprises’ (SOEs) IPOs (initial public offering) have become highly attractive to foreign investors.