VietNamNet Bridge – Family poverty has placed a priceless collection of paintings by Ton That Dao, a former member of the Hue royal family, in jeopardy.

The US is providing nearly US$1 million for a two-year project to combat HIV/AIDS in southern Viet Nam, including HCM City.

 GDP grows significantly: HSBC; Shrimp producers face more scrutiny for chemical usage; Dong Nai revokes licences of delayed investment projects;

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has required that the tax sector cut the time for enterprises to complete tax paperwork to under 300 hours a year by the end of 2014.  

VietNamNet Bridge – A new regulation requires mobile operators in Viet Nam to ensure at least 92 per cent success rate for short messaging services (SMS) with delivery time not exceeding 20 seconds. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a four-year period, from 2008 to 2012, over 4.4 tons of gold were exploited from Bong Mieu and Dak Sa, the two biggest gold mines in Vietnam. However, the state has not received sufficient taxes from the gold exporters.

Much of the world's advertising is pitched at pretty women, or uses them to draw in viewers and get higher ratings.

 Uzbekistan women train in VN ahead of AFC U19 qualifiers; Vietnam favoured for ASEAN Championship Title; Local teams lose third round matches at World Chess Olympiad; Vietnamese shooters attend training camp in RoK

Moc Chau has long been famous for its vast hills of white mustard and plum flowers, and green tea trees. But there is another beauty that few people know: it's Moc Chau in the morning dew. Discover that beauty through the following photos.

VietNamNet Bridge – The New York-based publishing firm BOA Editions is set to release a Vietnamese-English collection of poems, The Secret of Hoa Sen.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lac Hong Vien, the largest cemetery in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, is located on nine hills, with nine natural streams. It looks like a giant swimming turtle.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Solutions to Vinalines’ debt settlement will not occur unless the government agrees to amend a series of regulations.

 Almost 600 people are now known to have died in the earthquake that hit Yunnan province on Sunday, officials say.

 Both the Vietnamese men's and women's teams fell in rankings in the third round of the Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway, yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Director Nguyen Duy Linh's documentary Mot Ngay Binh Thuong (An Ordinary Day) has won the Golden Lotus Bud 2014 award. 

 Fourteen out of 15 chartered air routes from China to Vietnam’s central Danang city have been cancelled until the end of September 2014.

 A Russian group has hacked 1.2 billion usernames and passwords belonging to more than 500 million email addresses, according to Hold Security - a US firm specialising in discovering breaches.

A US general has been killed in an attack by an Afghan soldier at a British-run military academy near Kabul, US officials say.

Recent tensions in the East Sea after China’s illegal placement of its oil rig in Vietnam’s water were the topic of a seminar recently held by the Asian Commission of the Argentine Council for International Relations.

 In the middle of July, Golf & Life Magazine, business club Blue Club held a night party for CEOs – CEO BLUE NIGHT. This is an annual event which is hold to honor domestic and foreign enterprises, business corporations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport has sent a report to the Prime Minister proposing assistance policies for domestic airlines during the period in which they were affected by East Sea tensions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In Nam Giang District in the central province of Quang Nam, many gold mining sites are located only several hundreds of meters or kilometers away from the local authorities’ headquarters, forest-ranger stations and border posts.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Most of the students who placed first or recorded high marks on university entrance exams are from rural areas or poor families.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai has confirmed that the ministry will pay compensation for farmers whose crops were damaged when the dam of the Krel 2 hydro-power plant released water last Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An investigation at the Bo De Pagoda in Long Bien District in Hanoi will be expanded after a caretaker of orphans at the pagoda was arrested on Monday on allegations of selling children.