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.

 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),

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.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Owing to its poor performance at the last two Southeast Asia Football Cup (AFF Cup), Vietnam ranks sixth and almost has to attend the AFF Cup 2014 qualifying round.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A new exhibition of 163 paintings, sculpture and other art works has opened at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum as part of celebrations of the 68th National Day, which falls on September 2.

While the average salary of seasonal workers is only VND5.4 million ($260) per month, that of the Director of HCM City Urban Drainage Company is over VND200 million ($10,000), totaling about VND2.6 billion ($130,000) a year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tourism expert Florian Sengstschmid said that the image of the “Running Man” makes international friends relating to Vietnam as the great land that is worth of exploring.

 Sluggish growth and spillovers of the U.S. Federal Reserve's plan to scale back its economic stimulus are expected to feature prominently in discussions at the upcoming leaders' summit of Group of 20 or G20,

 Lai Huong Thao will represent Vietnam at the sixty third Miss World 2013 beauty contest, to be held in Bali Bay, Indonesia from September 3- 28.

Under the draft regulation compiled by the State Bank of Vietnam, commercial banks don’t have to pay back to customers the exact gold bars they entrusted to banks under the safekeeping services.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Flowers imported from the Netherlands and Ecuador will be showcased in Viet Nam for the first time at the Ha Noi flower festival which runs from August 30 to September 2.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Overlapping management of inland waterway traffic has hindered infrastructure development in HCM City and made it difficult to penalise violations and effectively tackle the problem of increasing accidents, local officials say.