VietNamNet Bridge - The news that a high number of 68,700 students failed the national high school finals has caused educators to rethink their view about the test.

VietNamNet Bridge - Investors are hesitating to pour money into waste treatment projects because of unclear service fees set by local authorities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ba Be National Park, lying 240 kilometres northwest of the capital city Hanoi in the northern mountainous province of Bac Can, has absolutely stunning vistas with dense evergreen forests.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Ministry of Health plan to build additional satellite hospitals across the nation and upgrade existing ones lacks money and qualified personnel,

The tightening of control over truck loads and the loosening of control over imports have led to the sharp increase in the number of imported Chinese trucks imported. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Expensive fares and cumbersome customs clearance procedures are blamed for a big reduction in passengers travelling on the Viet Nam-China train in the last three years.

 Dong Nai attracts 3.42 bln USD from ASEAN countries, Nielsen survey: Vietnamese tops world for savings, Gov't debt trader to lift charter capital to US$273m, Real estate chaos surrounds Long Thanh Airport project

 VietNamNet Bridge - After Zone 9 closed, young people and expats still had many other options for the bars as Barbetter, Yolo or Hero. These bars have a unique décor and serve customers with different tastes.

 Vietnamese martial artists secured their fourth consecutive championship title at the World Vovinam (Vietnamese Martial Arts) Championship after bagging 19 gold and five silver medals.

  Hue Royal food has a long tradition that has been both recorded for prosperity and kept alive throughout the centuries.

A new museum project in HCM City has been met with skepticism and criticism as there are already too few visitors and too few artifacts for the number of museums the city already has.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Quang Dat, 24, from Hanoi is the chief pilot of Jetstar Pacific and the youngest chief pilot of Vietnam.

Foreigners can buy and own houses in Vietnam for a 50 year period. If the owners sell or give their houses to foreign institutions and individuals within that period, the recipients will have the right to possess the house for the remaining time. 

Located in a small alley in District 10 in HCM City, the garden in the small house owned by sculptors Nguyen Sang and Lai Thi Kim Thanh is like an outdoor museum, featuring 500 statues of famous figures, both Vietnamese and foreigners.

 Arriving at Ly Son island district, visitors are often met with the sights of industrious local people and fishermen working at the wharfs as well as of the onion and garlic fields and winding paths in the dim light of the early morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With more and more construction constricting and speeding up the flow of HCM City's canals and rivers, eight more landslides have occurred on their banks this year alone, all at new spots, taking the all-time number to 45.

The real estate market, especially the high-end segment, has seen a revival and is likely to develop strongly from here thanks to the amendments to the Housing Law that permits foreigners and overseas Vietnamese to buy housing

On the road just 2km along To Lich River, Hanoi, there are dozens of large and small village gates, which are entrances to Thanh Liet commune. These gates, the symbol of old villages in northern Vietnam, still exist in modern Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many mobile users in Vietnam want to know whether mobile 3G rates in Vietnam are high or low compared to the average of the region and the world.

 Top Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam will participate in the men's F26-28 Futures in Egypt, slated for August 10.

 Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem aims to be among the top three players in the men's standard event at the 2015 Asian Continental Chess Championships.

 A flag-raising ceremony for two new submarines was solemnly conducted at Cam Ranh military port in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on August 1.

 The Singaporean Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City hosted a ceremony in the evening of July 31 to celebrate the country’s 50 th National Day.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Nguyen Quoc Cuong presented his credentials to Japanese Emperor Akihito in Tokyo on July 31.

 Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai left Mozambique on August 1, concluding his official visit to the African country.