VietNamNet Bridge – The shooting of a television series co-produced by Vietnamese and South Korean media groups commenced today.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “Hybrid credit”, which shares characteristics of both bank credit and black-market credit, is becoming more common in Vietnam.

 A group of ethicists will meet on Monday at the World Health Organization to discuss the wisdom or otherwise of making an experimental drug more widely available to those suffering from Ebola.

 Vietnam bags nine medals at Asian karate champs; U19 Vietnam stun U21 Singapore at U22 SEA tournament; U19 women's football team defeat Uzbek rivals in friendly; Viet Nam rank second in volleyball event

Coming from HCM City, Tuong Vy beat out other beauties around the world, winning Miss Vietnam Continents 2014 in California, the US, on August 9.

 Thanh Hoa suffered their humiliating loss yesterday in the capital city, but still managed to win the bronze medal as the V-League season came to an end.

More than 8,000 students had broken the law since 2009, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Education and Training at a conference held on Tuesday in Ha Noi.

 Doan Ngoc Hao of the Vietnam national futsal team has been hit with a two-year ban for a doping offence, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced.

 Bui Van Can, from Quynh Luu district, Nghe An province and his fellow crewmembers caught a rare giant ocean sunfish in the Gulf of Tonkin waters.

 An additional 184 Vietnamese workers landed at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on August 10, bringing the total number of Vietnamese workers returning from Libya to 453.

 Vietnam is scrambling to establish effective screening methods to cope with the Ebola epidemic by implementing standard laboratory diagnostic tests to detect the Ebola virus and ensure laboratory biosafety.

 Similar to Black Friday in the United States, “Online Shopping Day” (December 5) is anticipated to be a day businesses come out with “Doorbuster Sales” and special discounts to attract customers to make purchases.

 Vietnam’s delegation to the 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and related meetings in Myanmar made active and responsible contributions to enhancing ASEAN’s solidarity and common voice, said Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh.

 Nearly 200 domestic and foreign delegates will gather in Hanoi on August 12 for an international conference on multilateral foreign policy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Besra Group, the gold mining company operating at the Phuoc Son and Bong Mieu mines, will have its investment license revoked if it violates the law, Vietnamese economists have said.

 The Australian couple accused of abandoning a baby born with Down's syndrome to a Thai surrogate mother say they wanted to take him home.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More private equity (PE) investors are optimistic about Vietnam’s outlook over the next 12 months given improvements in economic growth and stable macro-economic factors in this market,

 At least 38 people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed near the Iranian capital Tehran, state media reports.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many farmers in the Mekong Delta are still living in poverty and finding it hard to own a home though they have contributed significantly to raising the nation’s rice, fruits and seafood production.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Acclaimed author Nguyen Nhat Anh's novel Cho Toi Xin Mot Ve Di Tuoi Tho (Give Me a Ticket to Childhood) will be released in the US on December 9.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local tour operators confirmed their Russian guests in Vietnam are unaffected by the bankruptcy of Russia’s travel firm Labirint which has left 27,000 Russian travelers stranded abroad.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The price of tuition at prestigious primary schools has soared dramatically because of the sharp increase in the number of first graders this school year, many parents in the capital have said.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many legal documents and instructions on the standard process of operating hydropower water reservoirs have been released, but these represent no assurance to the people who live in the lowlands.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Analysts have warned that once the Metro supermarket falls into the hands of Thai owners, Vietnamese products will be replaced by Thai products.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The top of a coach bus was sliced off as it passed under a flyover, which was too low for the coach, injuring 26 of the 40 people on board. Six of them are in critical condition.