VietNamNet Bridge – The number of private sector enterprises in Viet Nam rose by 2.56 times between 2006 and 2011 while the number of State-owned enterprises over the same period fell by 12.7 per cent.

 Moscow will not influence the circumstances around Edward Snowden because the NSA leaker has not appealed for political asylum in Russia, a high-ranking diplomat said Thursday.

European shares prices rallied and the euro plummeted against the dollar on Thursday after the eurozone and British central banks signalled that easy-money policies to stimulate growth will continue for some time.

VietNamNet Bridge – Falsifying a Viet Nam C/O for goods exported to major market countries having tough tax barriers, such as the US and EU, remains a common fraud committed by foreign-invested enterprises to pay lower tax rates,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Manzi Art Space on Saturday will host an exhibition featuring artwork by Nguyen Manh Hung – one of the most popular young visual artists in Viet Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local authorities in the capital are being forced to call for private capital to invest in more parks for children in new urban areas.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Google Inc announced on July 2 the launch of three new search tools in Vietnamese - Knowledge Graph, Voice search on Android and Google handwrite.

 VietNamNet Bridge – One hundred volunteers will travel to 15 provinces and cities nationwide from Sunday to encourage people to donate blood.

Although Vietnam has up to 4,000 species of plants that can be used as medicine, nearly 90 percent of medicinal herbs in Vietnam are imported, mainly from China. Paradoxically, Chinese traders have flocked to Vietnam to purchase medicinal plants.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many heart-breaking stories of trafficked women are being recited at Peaceful Place exhibition currently being held at the Vietnamese Women’s Museum by Center for Women and Development

 VietNamNet Bridge – Infringements of intellectual property rights are still a headache, causing huge losses among local companies, but there are not effective cures for the problem, heard a seminar on intellectual property in HCMC last Saturday.

"I want to send it as a gift to friends in Vietnam who are far from halfway around the world. I understand that you had big losses in war with millions of dead people, and you are the spirit of this work," Ambassador Swanee Hunt says.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Last week, more than 700 Vietnamese people were left stranded in the middle of a MICE (Meeting-Incentive-Conventions-Exhibition) tour in Bangkok.

 VietNamNet Bridge - With the transfer of all remaining high enriched uranium “HEU” fuel rods to Russia, Vietnam has demonstrated by concrete actions its policy against the spread of nuclear weapons in the world.

 Two HIV positive patients who underwent bone marrow transplants no longer have detectable virus in their blood cells, even after stopping anti-retroviral therapy for months,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The production of bio-gas plants to convert animal waste into fuel for lighting or cooking has come up against financial difficulties in Viet Nam.

 Vietnam, EU begins new FTA round; Farm exports decrease; US fund to invest more in Masan subsidiary; Vietnam Mazda exports cars to Laos

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep) plans to build a center in Europe charged with distributing and auctioning Vietnamese tra fish products for the EU market.

The Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the chief of the Department of Planning and Investment received the lowest votes of confidence. The Chair of the People’s Council and the police chief had the highest rates.

This morning, June 4, the driver of Vice Chairman of Quang Nam Province-- Tran Minh Ca, came to Ca’s home to take him to a meeting. After waiting for the official for a long time, the driver opened Ca’s home and found that he had died.

Heavy rain and floods resulting from tropical storm Rumbia, the third of the year to affect Viet Nam, have claimed at least two lives and caused property damage to three northern provinces of Dien Bien, Ha Giang and Thai Nguyen.

VietNamNet Bridge – General director of the National Sports Administration Vuong Bich Thang has signed a memorandum on sports co-operation with Chung Jung Teak, chairman of South Korea Sports Promotion Foundation in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Construction has not made public the standards to define who the low income earners are, so it is difficult for banks to grant house-purchasing loans to this subject.

 VietNamNet Bridge – From January to May 2013, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) found 21 corruption cases, related to nearly VND683 billion ($34 million), over 561 taels of gold and $50,000.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam on July 3 returned the last remaining 11 kilogrammes of highly enriched uranium from the Dalat Nuclear Research Institute to Russia, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced in Hanoi the same day.