VietNamNet Bridge - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-corruption, has decided to set up seven inspection groups to check the investigation and judgment of serious corruption cases.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Heavy rain all day long on August 8 flooded Dinh Tien Hoang and Le Thai To, the streets around the Hoan Kiem (Sword) Lake. The other streets were also 40-50 cm deep.

 VietNamNet Bridge  - By nearly 1pm on August 8, the police finished the scene examination and took the body of a female British tourist to the morgue.

 U.S. federal authorities on Thursday indicted two Kazakh students for aiding and abetting the Boston Marathon bombing suspect whom they befriended, the next step in bring them to trial.

 VietNamNet Bridge - From August 15 to 17, an international three-cushion carom billiards competition will be held in Binh Duong Province, with the participation of many world class players.

 Art show wows tourists; EWEC Trade and Tourism Fair opens in Da Nang; Hanoi considers removing tourist cyclos; Vietnam Airlines announces 2013 Autumn Promotion

 VietNamNet Bridge – A collection of war poems by Vietnamese and Japanese poets has just been published here.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Leading Vietnamese player Nguyen Tien Minh has narrowly defeated Spain’s Pablo Abian 2-1 in their World Badminton Federation (WBF) World Championship round of 16 match on August 8.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 100 artists from circus troupes will gather at the National Circus Festival 2013, which starts today, August 9, in Ha Noi.

 New Zealand Governor General wraps up Vietnam visit; Angola eager to boost all sided cooperation with Vietnam; Top judges in Viet Nam, Laos discuss reforms

 VietNamNet Bridge – While the global economies have warmed up, Vietnam still has been bogging down in its big difficulties.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The stone church and Muong Hoa Valley in Sapa tourist town, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, have been submitted to the Vietnam Record Organisation (VietKing) to seek recognition as Vietnam’s records.

 At least 31 people including high rank police officials were killed and over 50 others injured on Thursday afternoon as a suicide blast hit a funeral in Pakistan's Southwest city of Quetta,

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communication on Wednesday issued a licence to FPT Telecoms to provide a paid TV service in Viet Nam, despite strong opposition from the Viet Nam Pay Television Association.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Northeastern Quang Ninh Province's People's Committee has decided to set up a steering board to accelerate investment procedures for a US$2 billion hi-tech park and urban township.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of excellent students, who got 27/30 marks from the university entrance exams, or 9/10 mark for every exam subject, have failed the exams to the Hanoi Medical University.

 A roadmap was announced Thursday to lift capital controls in force since March but without a clear timeline for when they will be scrapped, as the EU state battles its economic crisis.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Leading South Korean company, Sportizen, has pitched to co-operate with Viet Nam's Becamex Binh Duong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in the southern province of Binh Duong yesterday, August 7, announced the discovery of a large-scale drug trafficking ring.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese artefact collector Shoichiro Wada died on July 29. Since then, the museum he built in HCM City, Huyen Thoai Cham (Champa Myth), has not been open to the public.

 Drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day may help older people keep their brains healthy, a U.S. study said Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Receiving his mother's portrait from an Australian war veteran, 84-year-old Le Sang from Da Nang City had tears welling up in his eyes as if he had just seen his mother, Phan Thi Dien, in the flesh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 60 illustrations from a newly-released picture book titled Mot Ngay Cua Bo (One Day of Daddy) went on display on Tuesday in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese coffee market is large enough not only for the strong brands such as Starbucks, Trung Nguyen or Highlands. A lot of small cafes have been living well, while more and more new take-away cafés have opened.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 80 travel agencies, hotels and transport companies have come together in an effort to boost tourism to the central coastal city of Da Nang.