VietNamNet Bridge – Snail is a popular snack in Hoi An, sold by many street vendors. After consumption, the shells are discarded. People consider them worthless.

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies expressed concern over increasing wastefulness in almost all sectors during a discussion of the revised Law on Practicing Thrift and Fighting Wastefulness on Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Drought and seawater intrusion have destroyed nearly 6,000ha of summer-autumn rice in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Chinese businessmen continue rousing the Vietnamese farm produce market, “deploying troops” at all market segments and applying the same attack methods.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s futsal club, Thai Son Nam, will encounter strong Japanese opponents Nagoya Oceans at the upcoming 2013 AFC Futsal Club Championship from August 27 to September 1.

VietNamNet Bridge – The French band, Lo’Jo, will perform at HCM City’s Institute for Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) on June 25 and Hanoi’s French Cultural Centre L' Espace on June 27.

The voice of the farmers does not have a rightful place in policies. Inequality in giving the State's priority and support for the agricultural sector compared with other sectors still exists, commented VietNamNet’s readers.

A group of international researchers announced Thursday they have successfully created an ultra-high resolution three-dimensional human brain map by assembling images of thousands of brain sections from a deceased 65-year-old woman.

VietNamNet Bridge – Domestic and foreign visitors to HCMC can find it easier to obtain useful information, advice and support via the Internet, phone hotline or travel information centers as the city is working on a project

 ADB-funded project brings power to Lai Chau province; Strong growth forecast for high-tech export sector; Local products get thumbs up; Sai Gon Co.op opens supermarket

The State Bank of Viet Nam has said that it would closely monitor exchange rate movements and balance of payment figures to manage the rate in a manner that would encourage dong holdings and limit shifting to US dollar holdings.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Deputy Defense Minister - Sen. Lieut. Gen. Do Ba Ty – paid a visit to the Pentagon on June 20, marking a milestone in the US-Vietnam relations nearly 40 years after the Vietnam War.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese singer Ho Quynh Huong has been crowned 2013’s Asia's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity Woman after a fierce, month-long voting contest that recently ended at PETAAsiaPacific.com.

On June 20, the Vietnam Football Federation and the management board of My Dinh stadium signed a VND800 million contract. In addition, the VFF will have to share half of the VIP rooms to the stadium managing board.

VietNamNet Bridge - This morning (21/6), a tropical depression was strengthened into a typhoon. This is the 2nd storm in the East Sea and is internationally known as Bebinca.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese model Tuyet Lan, the runner-up of the Vietnam's Next Top Model, first season, appeared as an urban doll on the fashion magazine Rouge, the Chinese version.

The sport circle has been shaken today when the information about a sexual harassment scandal involving runner Truong Thanh Hang, who is called “Queen of Athletics” and coach Nguyen Tuan Anh was revealed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With support from Vietnamese and Thai authorities, all of the 701 tourists stranded in Bangkok over the weekend are now back in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lorry carrying tractors burst into flames just 1.1km inside the Hai Van Tunnel at 6:50am in the central city yesterday morning, June 20, closing the tunnel for 20 minutes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – China will work closely with Vietnam to effectively implement the agreements reached during President Truong Tan Sang’s current visit to China.

 The British government finally shut down a special unit investigating UFO sightings after more than 50 years as it was a drain on resources and not a single report ever revealed " a potential threat to the United Kingdom,"

 VietNamNet Bridge – Party Politburo member Dinh The Huynh visited the Academy of Journalism and Communication, Hanoi Radio and Television, the Communist Review and the Radio Voice of Vietnam on June 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of big seafood companies in the west of the southern region, which are the biggest seafood exporters in Vietnam, have one after another, fallen into tragic situation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Construction began on the Song Nam-Song Bac Hydropower Project three years back, but with no development in sight, hundreds of hectares of forest land is lying wasted and unused in the central city of Da Nang.

 A three-storey residential building on Mumbai's outskirts collapsed on Friday, killing two children and trapping more people inside, officials said.