VietNamNet Bridge – Violent floodwaters caused by torrential rains over the past few days have washed away five local residents in northern mountainous provinces.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The national women’s team will have five friendly matches ahead of the AFF Cup 2013, including two games with Korean teams.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tropical depression on July 31 strengthened into a storm named Jebi, becoming the fifth storm of its kind to be formed in the East Sea.

 The driver of a train that derailed last week killing 79 people was speaking on the phone when the accident occurred, a Spanish court said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked ministries, sectors and localities to stick to the set targets of stabilising the macro economy and keeping the inflation rate equal to that of last year at about 6.8 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is willing to create favourable conditions for Hungarian businesses to invest in the Southeast Asian country, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan said during talks with his host Semjen Zsolt in Budapest on July 29.

VietNamNet Bridge – Market analysis firms, after analyzing the recent figures, have come to a conclusion that Vietnam is a rising star in the households’ consumption on consumer goods.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairman Huynh Ngoc Son led a delegation to Singapore from July 29-30 to boost bilateral cooperation, especially between the two legislative bodies.

While many Vietnamese fans bought tickets and waited to see Lee Min-ho, Lee Min-ho’s company on Tuesday posted an announcement on the cancellation of the show in Hanoi, Vietnam on its facebook page.

The Chairman of HCM City Chemistry Association said that test results of fresh vermicelli samples taken from a vermicelli processing facility in District 8, HCM City, contained tinopal, a chemical that is banned in food processing.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The exhibition combined with workshop on Typography in Vietnam with the theme "Typography: How to read, learn and create" will be held at Manzi Art Space in Hanoi from August 1-12.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Supreme People's Court yesterday, July 30, decided to keep the main judgements made last April by the Hai Phong City People's Court related to a high-profile land eviction in the city's Tien Lang District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s world heritage Phong Nha Cave in the central province of Quang Binh has been certificated as one of world’s best destinations by the US famous tourism website TripAdvisor.

Two chess grandmasters Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son will attend the World Cup 2013 (held in Norway from 10-8 to 5-9) with funds from the fund for talented of the Vietnam Chess Federation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of July 30, the training ship Kojima of the Japan Coast Guard docked at the Tien Sa Port in Da Nang City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – According to a press release of the Admiraltei Verfi shipyard, the first Kilo 636 submarine of the six submarines for Vietnam will be handed over to Vietnam in November 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pop star My Tam has the highest number of votes in the competition to seek the Vietnamese representative at the MTV EMA 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Forest Police Force will be in charge of patrolling and managing forests, under new plans proposed to the Government by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has awarded the 2013 Vietnam Environmental Award to the Nung ethnic community in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang for their solutions to protect, use rationally

 VietNamNet Bridge – Casinos in Vietnam must have a registration book to track their visitors. In the case they let Vietnamese players gamble, they will be fined from VND180 to VND200 million ($9,000-10,000).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite the dark days of the stock market, more and more open end investment funds have been set up. However, it’s still too early to say about their performance.

EDC of the Education Publishing House remains the only company which has joined the e-textbook market with its classbook products, though a lot of enterprises once revealed their ambitious plans to digitalize textbooks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dinh Quan, considered one of Viet Nam's most talented lacquer artists, is showcasing his latest works in an exhibition in HCM City.

The biggest private iPhone 5 distributors in Vietnam have affirmed that the current price of iPhone 5 16GB at VND16 million won’t decrease in the time to come, at least until the next generation of iPhone series hits the market.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 13,000 blood units, or almost 6,000 litres, have been collected across 15 provinces and cities during the successful Red Journey that concluded with its final blood donation festival in Ha Noi on Saturday.