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According to the Environment Police Agency, Vietnam is one of the countries with the highest rate of morbidity and mortality from cancer in the world. Recent studies show that 70 percent of cancer cases in the country are due to unsafe diet.

VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal sand exploitation by local residents and authorities along the Dong Nai River has increased rather than diminished in the last decade, despite efforts to ban it.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is highly possible that the Vietnam’s GDP growth rate in 2013 would be 5.1-5.2 percent.

CMC Telecom and FPT Telecom have complained about the lack of IPv4 addresses to develop new subscribers, saying that the reserved addresses do not correspond to the current growth and the broadband market share.

The announcement about the petrol price increase to VND25,000 per liter, plus the excursion fee increases at most of the tourist sites, have dealt a strong blow on travel firms which have been sparing every dong to stimulate the demand.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Spelling mistakes have been discovered everywhere, on university degrees, and at the traffic signboards or at the airports. The mistakes, in the eyes of educators, are odd and unacceptable.

 VietnamNet Bridge – The low inflation rate in the first months of the year is believed to be a good condition for Vietnam to launch a new bailout, worth 100,000 billion to have the national economy escape the current gloomy situation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first Vietnam-ASEAN UNESCO Heritage Festival 2013 will be held in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong from December 27-31.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Lacking of comprehensive services for the development of tourism, many historical monuments and beauty spots like Ba Gioc waterfall, Truong Son - Ho Chi Minh trail are out of reach of many Vietnamese people.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Nurturing the idea of bringing McDonald's to Vietnam for 10 years, Nguyen Bao Hoang opened his own company, kept contact with the partner and scheduled to open the first store in the first quarter of next year in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Planning and Investment has asked the Prime Minister to implement an independent evaluation of large scale foreign direct investment (FDI) projects before giving them the go-ahead.

VietNamNet Bridge – When Ngan Nam Ao Mu, a book documenting 1,000 years of Vietnamese dress, was released last month, experts described it as the most comprehensive research ever undertaken on the subject.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While traveling in Da Nang city, a Korean female tourist was hospitalized for bee stings, but she did not survive.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some 2.04 million people in rural areas will be getting job training in three years, from 2013 to 2015 under a major scheme for vocational training for the rural labor force,

VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-year-old Le Van Son was recently washing his customers' motorbikes with enthusiasm. His ability to move so quickly, soaping, cleaning and drying the motorbikes made it heard for many people to believe

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport may have to pay compensation of VND155 billion (over $7 million) to the Japanese contractor due to slow site clearance.

 VietNamNet Bridge – State budget revenue collection was a difficult task in the first half of the year, with some VND356.5 trillion collected, or only 44% of the estimate for the whole year,

VietNamNet Bridge – By a quirk of fate during a tramp around District 2, I found myself in a weird world full of dozens of tuong nha mo like human beings in varied nuances in a space filled with antiques

The Department of Health of Quang Tri Province has asked clinics and health stations to stop using the hepatitis B vaccine that is in the same batch with the vaccine related to the death of three infants in Huong Hoa district.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This year’s International Travel Expo (ITE) HCMC will take place at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in District 7 from September 12 to14, attracting some 300 foreign tour operators.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Viet Pride 2013 programme will be held at the Ha Noi Goethe Institute with film screenings, discussions and talk shows on homosexuality from August 2-4.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunications, Do Quy Doan, has asked State administration agencies to provide the media with more accurate and comprehensive information.

VietNamNet Bridge – The management board of Mui Ca Mau (Ca Mau Cape) National Park and the southernmost province of Ca Mau’s local authorities have devised a long-term plan to conserve biodiversity in the mangrove swamp ecosystem.