VietNamNet Bridge – Only 18 per cent of Viet Nam's listed companies reported first-half losses, but some of these ran into hundreds of billions of dong with maritime transport and mining businesses the hardest hit.

 Facebook has agreed to acquire Mobile Technologies, a firm specializing in voice translation software, the two companies said, without providing financial details of the transaction.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Troupes from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Viet Nam will participate in a week-long arts festival in the central province of Quang Tri from yesterday, Aug 12,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Around 90 Vietnamese labourers have been hospitalised with malaria during the past three months after returning from guest worker programmes in Africa.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's No 1 badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh, made history last weekend by winning a world championship bronze medal with a display full of passion and commitment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Government leaders, Nobel Prize winners, and leading international scientists yesterday attended the opening of a centre for interdisciplinary science and education in central Binh Dinh Province.

 Ethnic heritage gets ready for 2014; Dak Lak's charming lake in the Central Highlands attracts interest; Preparations underway for National Tourism Year 2014

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam won four gold medals at the Asian Youth Wushu Championships, which finished in the Philippines yesterday, Aug 12.

Foreign firms have been providing voice and SMS services on Vietnam’s broadband infrastructure, while they do not bear any Vietnamese legal constrains. This means that the issue of the national sovereignty on Internet has been neglected.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese Grand Masters Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son on August 12 defeated their rivals to have every chance of entering the second round of the 2013 SportAccord World Mind Games.

Nearly 150 Buddhist antiques, including paintings, statues, woodblock, worshiping items and musical instruments dating back to the 7th-8th centuries are displayed at an exhibition in Da Nang Museum.

The head of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, when admitting that Vietnam has lagged behind the neighboring countries in attracting FDI, has reassured the public that Vietnam has become “wiser” in licensing foreign invested projects.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Towering on an ancient cho tree, the soot-blackened hut of only 2m2 was the home for 40 years of Mr. Ho Van Thanh and his son Ho Van Loan in Tay Tra mountain district of Quang Ngai province.

 Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed sweeping reforms of the country's oil sector that would allow foreign energy firms back into the industry 75 years after being thrown out.

 The United States announced plans to reduce its use of mandatory sentences for drug offenses in order to tackle a cycle of poverty and incarceration in overcrowded jails.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The woman is believed to have driven a motorbike to the middle of the bridge and threw the child sitting behind her into the river and then plunging herself to the river, too.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Featuring a climax primeval forest, including mixed mangrove forests and mangrove forests on peatlands, U Minh Thuong National Park has become ASEAN Heritage Park.

After one week for the "extra" poll, Goal.com officially announced the result of the vote for the Best player of Southeast Asia on August 1,1 and Vietnamese striker Le Cong Vinh still ranked first with 42 percent of the total votes.

 VietNamNet Bridge - According to the foreign media, four Vietnamese crew members who escaped from Taiwan's Ta Hsieh fishing boat on August 8 said that they were used as "modern slaves" on this boat.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lawmakers discussed draft amendments to the laws on Inland Waterway Traffic and Mobile Police on the first day of the NA Standing Committee's 12th session yesterday, Aug 12.

VietNamNet Bridge – Renowned Australian model coach Adam Williams was invited to judge Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2013 auditions in Ho Chi Minh City on August 12 and Hanoi on August 19.

VietNamNet Bridge – A group of students from the HCMC University of Technology has implemented a solar-powered watering system in Ninh Thuan Province after winning the special award of the Holcim Prize 2012.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first Bus Rapid Transit route is expected to be put in use in four years, according to HCM City officials.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After people-founded universities, it’s now junior colleges which have voiced the complaints about the lack of students.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The move by the State Bank of Vietnam of raising the dollar buy price has been commented as showing its determination to keep the dong/dollar exchange rate stable.