A lot of foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) in HCM City now seek to rent ready made production workshops built up by the industrial zone development companies instead of setting up production workshops themselves on the leased land.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Two men riding a motorbike on the street suddenly heard the gunshot. The one sitting behind received a rubber bullet to his left eye. Shortly after that, the driver had a shot in his shoulder.

Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny of Arsenal told the interesting story and the impression about a Vietnamese fan who ran after the team’s bus for five kilometers to ask for signatures of Arsenal players.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On July 16, the CASA aircraft No. 8983 safely landed at Gia Lam Airport - Hanoi. This is the 3rd patrol airplane of the Coast Guard forces of Vietnam.

On July 16, the Ministry of Education and Training released Circular 28, in which the provisions on bonus marks for Vietnam heroic mothers who attend the university entrance exams were annulled.

VietNamNet Bridge - A strong tropical depression has appeared in the eastern Luzon Island (Philippines). The depression is forecasted to get stronger.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On July 15 Khanh Hoa Court sentenced Nguyen Viet Truong, 57, former director of Song Ma Co., Ltd., who laid a mine at the home of Khanh Hoa police director, to 23 years in prison.

Thanks to the U.S. Open Gold Grand Prix championship, Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh jumped two spots on the latest ranking of the World Badminton Federation, which was released on July 15.

Last week HCM City police caught in the act four foreigners with prostitutes at a beauty salon in Tan Binh District, HCM City, from which they have detected a prostitution network serving foreigners only.

For more than 23 years of fighting for his own justice, on July 15, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Trung was publicly apologized to by the Head of the People’s Procuracy of Hau Giang province – Mr. Nguyen Dong Khoi.

 NA leader reviews rice production in Nam Dinh; Religious affairs to be promoted; Sympathy for Chinese flood victims; Sri Lankan Speaker in Quang Ninh

  Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

 British lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill legalising same-sex marriage in England and Wales, paving the way for the first gay weddings in 2014.

 North and South Korea will hold fresh talks Wednesday on reopening their joint industrial zone with low hopes of an early agreement following months of friction.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In recent years, both sides of the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City have perennially faced landslides while efforts to curb this devastation have been either too slow or else negligible.

 Despite a decline until the turn of the century, sexually transmitted diseases could occur more frequently in the future, experts said at a press conference for the STI and AIDS World Congress 2013 in Vienna on Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While gigantic tourism projects have been “immovable,” the small projects capitalized at VND10 billion or less have heated up the tourism market in the central region.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Every time when the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) plans to raise the retail electricity price, the war between the power generator and steel mills escalates.

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of banks have bogged down in bad debts and poor liquidity. However, they are believed to have great potentials in the long run. Therefore, they still can attract big investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of state-owned high schools have to set the minimum required marks lower than last year’s levels in order to attract more 10th graders.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Film director Viet Dang believes that films can help audiences change their lifestyle and way of thinking in a positive manner.

It is estimated that 60-65 percent of the nitrogen fertilizer has not been absorbed by plants. Millions of tons of waste from livestock farms and 90 percent of solid waste has been discharged to the rural environment every year without treatment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Complaining that making apps for mobile devices is not a good job because it doesn’t bring big money, information technology (IT) firms still spend money to develop mobile apps.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thai collector of Vietnamese paintings, Tira Vanichtheeranont, is offering to donate autographed prints of a portrait of legendary painter To Ngoc Van sketched by his eminent student Le Lam.

The resulting warming of the earth could cause the sea level to rise by more than two metres for each additional celsius degree of warmth,