VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City’s central District 1 has installed cameras to control traffic and crime, the district’s vice chair said yesterday.

 President Truong Tan Sang hosted a reception in Ha Noi yesterday for former acting President of Japan's Democratic Party Sengoku Yoshito.

President Truong Tan Sang told Senator Bob Corker, a member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said yesterday that Viet Nam was ready to expand economic and trade ties with the US .

 VietNamNet Bridge – Analysts predict a new wave of commercial banks taking over finance companies following a new government decree.

 Solidarity is the key to the success of ASEAN in overcoming poverty and separation to become a united bloc with dynamic development over the past five decades, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has stated.

 Vietnam attaches special importance to stepping up cooperation with the US in all fields, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told outgoing US ambassador David Shear at a reception in Hanoi on August 5.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A few days after internationally-renowned Starbucks Coffee opened its first shop in Ha Noi, people still had to queue up for a cup of American-styled coffee.

A VND2.3 trillion (US$108 million) project is set to begin in November to expand T2 International Terminal of Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There are numerous research & development (R&D) units in Vietnam, but Vietnamese have few patent cooperation treaties (PCT) registered at WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization). Who is to blame?

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government should take measures to reduce the difficulties and risks involved in investing in tourism properties so that the sector can revive, experts have told a conference.

VietNamNet Bridge – A photo collection entitled ‘Tuong Tran Thoi Binh’ by photographer Tran Viet Van has recently won the gold medal in the portrait photo category and the bronze medal in the regional journalism photo category

 VietNamNet Bridge – The overweight and obese rate among children under five years old in Ho Chi Minh City has increased threefold over the past decade, posing major nutritional and health challenges to the southern city,

 $750M project faces uncertain future after arrest of top officials; Central bank says money withdrawals at VNCB drop; Government issues resolution to spur production; Delta fruit crops hit as disease spreads

 VietNamNet Bridge – An old family with connections to the last Vietnamese dynasty yesterday (Aug 4) donated precious documents on Viet Nam's sovereignty over the sea and islands to the State.

VietNamNet Bridge – As the summer heat subsides and families return to the city after vacation, schools are starting to call students back for revision before the academic year begins in September.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Public telephones are likely to appear again in Ho Chi Minh City after nearly two years of absence.

 Europe's forests have experienced increased disturbances throughout the 20th Century from wind, bark beetles and wildfires, a study has shown.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many enterprises complain that their businesses have had problems because of the automated customs clearance system.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The yew cemetery in Ea H’leo in Dak Lak province is the only cemetery in the world where yew plants, which appeared in the prehistoric period, are buried.

VietNamNet Bridge – Becamex Binh Duong have claimed the 2014 V-League title despite one round still left to play, with a score of 48 points after 23 rounds. Let’s take a look back at the highlights of the team

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam plans to use remote sensing technology to boost production of key crops, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said at a conference last week.

A group of more than 40 Indian nurses who were trapped in the fighting engulfing parts of Libya have returned home, officials say.

The body of a woman who died under the knife of an unlicensed cosmetic surgeon, who later dumped her into a river, was retrieved, according to Hanoi police.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People in Tan Hoa commune in Minh Hoa district of the central province of Quang Binh are urgently making floating houses for the upcoming flood season in early September.

The French Embassy in Vietnam expresses their aim to increase the number of French-made movies to be screened at local theaters.