VietNamNet Bridge – Son Dong fine arts village in Hanoi’s outlying Hoai Duc District is known as a dynamic craft village with enduring vitality, where talented artisans breathe fresh air into their products and enthusiastically promote their brand

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam consumed 5.8 million cellphones in the second quarter, most of them smartphones, according to market research firm IDC.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two inspirational Buddhists monks are travelling through central Viet Nam helping the region's poor and forgotten in a bid to share their burden.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The foreign direct investment sector is now the key driver in the local economy while other pillars, notably the local private sector, the State-owned sector and agriculture are all crumpling, said a Fulbright economist.

 VietNamNet Bridge - During his recent visit to Vietnam, Thai photographer Anan Charoenkal had a chance to visit Sapa and shot stunning photos of this land in the ripe rice season.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Groundwater is receding by 0.5-1 metre a year in HCM City, Nguyen Van Nga, head of the city's Natural Resources and Water Division, has warned.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the Bissky-Dziadkyk family, the four-month trip to Southeast Asia in 2008 was the beginning of a lifetime journey that so far has taken them to 16 countries,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though the consumer price index (CPI) decreased in some of the last months, Vietnam has never escaped from the inflation ache.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Phu La, a Tibeto-Burman language group, lives in mountainous areas of Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Son La and Dien Bien provinces in the north. Its population is nearly 11,000.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tycoon in the plastic industry is believed to be the owner of the largest and most valuable collection of super-cars in Vietnam, with many cars worth a million of US dollars.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Seeing a bear in the cage in his uncle’s home, a five-year-old boy in Phu Tho moved closer to the cage to feed the bear, but his two arms were bitten by the bear.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Losing a toenail in the conquest of the 72-storey building in Hanoi, the “Running Man” Vu Xuan Tien still won the top spot in the competition for amateur runners at the age of 12 to 29.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will have at most 150 rice exporters with close connection with major production areas by 2015, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The appearance of the new comers Viettel and FPT on the pay-TV market could be a threat to the big guys SCTV and VCTV.

People-founded universities keep complaining that they cannot enroll students. However, more and more universities still have been established, while junior colleges have been insisting on being upgraded into universities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three years ago, Usuda Raiko from Japan's Kawazaki City opened her own cafe and settled down for a peaceful life in Hoi An City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities of Lam Dong province will auction and rent some state-owned villas in the city of Da Lat to raise funding for the construction of the central administration complex.

Besides lantern parade, serving out mid-autumn festival cakes and fruits, admiring the full moon on the 15th day of lunar August, in Hanoi, people experience the full moon atmosphere several weeks ago.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is 8pm in a poor hamlet on the outskirts of Ha Noi. Inside a very small house, Nguyen Thi Tinh hurriedly prepares dinner for her family.

 VietNamNet Bridge - As the residence of the red-headed cranes, the Tram Chim National Park promises to be an attractive destination for exploration in the southwestern region of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The fees of airport services will be lowered in the coming time to attract airlines to five smaller international airports in the country,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCMC government will present its scheme of piloting the model of municipality administration to the Government late this month to seek backing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Recently, hundreds of households in the northern province of Ha Nam have been able to raise their incomes and living standards thanks to a simple machine invented by the son of a village weaver.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Festival 2013 will be organized in Tokyo on September 14-15 and in Nagoya on September 21-22 as part of activities to celebrate 40 years of establishing Vietnam-Japan diplomatic ties.