VietNamNet Bridge - On Wednesday the Performing Arts Agency asked the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of 63 provinces and cities to not grant performing licenses to an “online star” known as “Ba Tung”, even at bars.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Panic of the tragic death of his mother and two sons when the U.S. bombs hit his house, a soldier held his one-year-old son and ran into the jungle. He lived in the forest for 40 years until August 7.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Multimedia Corp (VTC) will have its virtual mobile network licence revoked after failing to provide a service within the scheduled time limit, according to the Ministry of Information and Communication.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After 40 years living in the jungle, yesterday August 7 Mr. Ho Van Thanh and his son, Ho Van Lang, were rescued by the local government and local people.

 New Zealand was struggling to meet a self-imposed deadline to remove tainted baby formula from shelves worldwide Wednesday and end a botulism scare that has triggered global recalls.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese striker spoke Japanese at the first press conference with his club on August 6.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Mr. Tran Manh Hung will replace Mr. Vu Tuan Hung as the General Director of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) from August 6.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has received applications for the position of Vietnam Tourism Ambassador from five candidates, so it has called for other candidates to participate in the selection.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Nam Dinh City Police on August 5 arrested Dang Van Hai, 24, residing in My Loc district, Nam Dinh city, after this man attacked five people in a family with acid on August 3.

 VietNamNet Bridge - So far, nearly 500 red-headed cranes and about 8,000 Asian openbill storks, which is named in the Vietnam Red Book, have flown to the Tram Chim National Park in Dong Thap Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Unable to clear inventories to get money for debt payment, a lot of debtors have to pay in their shares.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The book “The evidence of Vietnam's sovereignty over the two archipelagoes of Hoang Sa, Truong Sa” by Han Nguyen Nguyen Nha has been published.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will consult the people’s opinion on the draft national report on the implementation of human rights in Vietnam, which is expected to present at the UN Human Rights Council in January 2014.

VietNamNet Bridge – The failure of bus firms to manage their vehicles properly was the main cause of traffic unsafety,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Scientists are considering whether to relocate the remnants of a 14th century shipwreck lying off Quang Ngai's Binh Son District or to preserve it on the seabed as an underwater attraction for tourists.

 A "massive" fire broke out at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Wednesday, an official said, shutting down one of east Africa's most important transport hubs and causing serious damage.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Travel firms now have to struggle harder to attract tourists in the low tourism season. However, they are afraid their efforts would be useless because of the non-cooperation of relevant parties.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Traffic police will "resolutely clarify" anyone who films and takes photos of traffic policemen on duty. If the cameramen are journalists, the police will notify the news agency.

People in Duy Tan, Hai Duong province laid a siege to a chemicals plant in the locality for one month, because they believed the plant was the culprit that caused the serious pollution to the environment and the death of tens of local people.

 The sixth tropical storm of this year was forming to the south of the Hoang Sa Archipelago, and was expected to bring heavy rains to northern and central-northern regions today.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more farmers in the provinces of Hai Duong, Thanh Hoa, Ninh Binh, Nam Dinh and Nghe An have given up farming and given back the land allocated to them.

The northern and southern automobile markets in Vietnam have quite different characteristics because of the differences in the viewpoints, lifestyle and taste. Luxurious cars have been reportedly better sold in the north so far this year.

The decision by the Olympians, or the students attending the “Road to Olympia” competition for high school excellent students, to stay working and settling down in foreign countries, has once again raised the worries about the Vietnamese brain drain.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Making "fevers" for leeches by increasing the prices, after collecting leeches at the old prices, Chinese traders sold leeches to Vietnamese traders at high prices and disappeared.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Departing at 5 p.m. from Hanoi, we – three people on our motorbikes – headed on National Highway 1A to Ninh Binh Province.