VietNamNet Bridge - After the World Chess Cup, Vietnam’s top chessman Le Quang Liem will move from Norway to the U.S. to study at the Webster University and he will not compete at the SEA Games later this year.

 Four teams of US navy medical personnel aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy worked with Vietnamese doctors to enhance rehabilitation for patients at the National Institute of Burns in Hanoi between August 15 and 28.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Municipal officials are calling for punishment for those running illegal wharves that have been operating along rivers and canals in the city for a long time despite orders to shut down.

The Vietnam’s mobile market has been existing and developing for 20 years. But the market boom occurred 10 years ago and it took Vietnam 10 years only to list itself among the countries with the high percentage mobile phone users.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam's education system is grappling with substandard training and dire shortage of teachers, according to a conference held in Ha Noi last week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Visiting the Huyen Khong grotto, you will feel like stepping into a fairyland. This place is not only attractive to pure tourists but also to many travelers on religious topics.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Film distributors from the North American market have agreed to buy copyright of Vietnam’s first fantasy film Lua Phat (Once upon a time in Vietnam) by Vietnamese-American Dustin Nguyen.

 VietNamNet Bridge - According to Viettel’s document to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Samsung Vietnam enjoys a lot of tax incentives while domestic firms that face big difficulties are not provided with these preferentials.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCMC government will not grant permits for underground work construction in the central districts of 1, 3, 4, 5 and 10 and traffic jam-prone areas from next year,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The US remained Viet Nam's largest goods consumer, importing more than US$13 billion worth of goods over the past seven months (18 per cent of Viet Nam's total export value),

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Industry and Trade has established a portal to help consumers identify trust-worthy e-commerce sites as well as provide a blacklist of sites that have failed to meet good trading practice.

State owned enterprises (SOEs) are sure of loss if they sell stakes to withdraw capital from the enterprises they invested in. However, the State, the real owner of the enterprises, doesn’t expect loss.

Nearly 2,000 people from army corps, state agencies, organizations and people from all social strata participated in a large-scale earthquake response exercise on August 27 in Quang Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To be admitted to an online game group, a student in An Giang province planned to kill 10 people at the request of the group leader.

 VietNamNet Bridge – That servants are better than their masters doesn’t seem a theme likely to appeal to those able to afford the HCMC Opera House’s ticket prices.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technical Institute has developed 21 new coffee varieties that are disease resistant and have high yields.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese government has adopted a number of practical solutions for dealing with illegal Vietnamese guest workers in the Republic of Korea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived in Boston last Sunday to attend the annual Viet Nam Executive Leadership Programme (VELP) at Harvard University.

 A botulism scare that sparked global recalls of Fonterra milk products was a false alarm and there was never any danger to the public, New Zealand officials said on Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2,169 m Langbiang Mountain, which is ranked a national landscape and has long been considered a symbol of the resort city of Da Lat, has been eroded from the top.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After fast food, it is the ice cream market now which heats up every day.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung on Monday thanked Japan for having pledged to grant around US$22 billion in official development assistance to Viet Nam over the past 20 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The President of the Republic of Seychelles, James Alix Michel, will begin an official two-day visit to Viet Nam today, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Vietnam’s Thai Son Nam team was held to a 2-2 draw by China’s Shenzhen Nanling team in the first group A match of the 2013 AFC Futsal Club Championships at Oceans Arena in Nagoya, Japan, on August 27.

The Disciplinary Board of the Vietnam Football Federation has decided to impose fines of VND100 million on Saigon Xuan Thanh FC and VND10 million on the team’s boss – Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thuy - for withdrawing from the V-League.