VietNamNet Bridge – Cross ownership turns out to be not only a problem of the banking system as complex connections have been found in many other business fields.

Locals in Lien Tien and Dong Son hamlets of Mai Phu commune in Ha Tinh Province are not worried about hunger, poverty or harsh weather, but the numerous cancer-related deaths in their sleepy villages.

 Vietnam’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Nguyen Trung Thanh has informed about China’s illegal placement of its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 in Vietnam’s waters before the international public attention.

 Located in the middle of the Central Region of Vietnam, Hai Van Pass is considered to have the world’s most beautiful beaches at its two ends and also has “the grandest fortified gateway".

 VietNamNet Bridge - For the first time an ancient tea tree forest has been discovered in the northern province of Thai Nguyen, the kingdom of tea trees in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A businessman in HCM City has decided to buy two helicopters and 100 vessels worth trillions of dong to go fishing in the Hoang Sa archipelago.

 British scientists have made a "major step forward" in developing a blood test to predict the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

American firms have urged the US Congress to ratify the Vietnam-US cooperation agreement in the nuclear sector in order to create more jobs, and Russia and Japan have signed nuclear cooperation agreements with Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A leading Vietnamese trade expert suggests that Vietnam seek alternate trade partners to reduce overdependence on China, and revise cross-border trade policy with its neighbour to optimise domestic value added exports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Rong Cao (Dragon Bridge), opened 2013, was described by the American television channel CNN as a favorite of residents and visitors, and an icon of a prosperous future.

 Polish scholars attending a seminar at the Almamer University, Warsaw, affirmed Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos and decried China’s recent acts in Vietnam’s waters.

VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the southern province of Binh Duong have spent more than a billion dong to remove water hyacinth from canals and rivers, but the weed appears to be one step ahead of them.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To move ahead with its restructuring process, SBIC (the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation) still needs to find solutions for 73 subsidiaries, but no one has made an offer to take them over.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first international fashion week in Vietnam, scheduled in early December, will meet international standards and promote the development of the country's fashion industry.

 An interim South Korea government report says the 16 April sinking of the Sewol ferry was partly due to government negligence and corruption.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Vice Mayor Hua Ngoc Thuan on July 5 asked the city’s education department to not go ahead with the new integrated English teaching curriculum.

 A suicide bomber has killed 16 people - including four Nato soldiers - in an attack on the outskirts of Bagram air base in north-eastern Afghanistan.

VietNamNet Bridge - Financial institutions believe the dong will depreciate further in the last months of the year after losing one percent of value since mid-June.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ly Giam Tien, the youngest contestant of Project Runway Vietnam 2014, in its second season, won the top prize during the final round in Ho Chi Minh City on July 6.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, told VNE that technical problems caused the plane crash on Monday morning in which 16 soldiers were killed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dance piece Danh Mat va Tim Lai (Lost and Found) will premiere at the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera's "Vietnamese Contemporary Music and Dance" programme next Wednesday at the Opera House.

 Hundreds of thousands of people have been urged to seek shelter as a powerful typhoon passes over Japan's Okinawa island chain.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The government has decided to spend VND11.5 trillion ($547 million) out of a VND16 trillion ($762 million) package to build 32 ships for the coast guard and marine surveillance forces.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On July 5, 2014, the 7UP brand of Suntory PepsiCo held the banquet "UP with seafood" to set a Vietnamese and Asian record for the longest seafood banquet of 777m.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Most Vietnamese believe that learning is the only way for their children to escape poverty and change their lives, and will do everything they can to provide their children with a university education.