VietNamNet Bridge – Nineteen teams from 18 countries and territories will compete in the 2013 Asia-Pacific robot contest, announced the organizing board on August 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi-based Goethe Institute will host an exhibition entitled “Germany in Miniature” from August 17–22.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A flag-raising ceremony of the Vietnamese sports delegation was held in Nanjing, China, on August 15 where the 2013 Asian Youth Games is taking place.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCMC Antenna of the French Institute in Vietnam will host a solo piano performance from Tran Phuong Nam at 8 p.m. on August 24 at HCMC Conservatory of Music.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese top player Nguyen Tien Minh climbed two notches to 5th position for the second time in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released on August 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The nation's Roads Directorate is planning a new 78km road to take in My Dinh, Ba Sao and Bai Dinh. It will pass through the northern cities and provinces of Ha Noi, Ha Nam, Hoa Binh and Ninh Binh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Grandmaster Le Quang Liem continued to draw with Vallejo Pons (Spain) in the second round of the 2013 Chess World Cup in Norway on August 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The four crew members who escaped from a fishing vessel of Taiwan - Hsieh Ta - in the waters of France, have returned to Vietnam, reported by the Overseas Labor Management Agency.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese man who guided a 14-year-old Russian boy to play golf and broke his six teeth agreed to pay compensation of $12,000.

 Oil prices jumped Thursday as spiralling violence in Egypt raised concerns that petroleum supplies could be threatened.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of the enterprises in the maritime transport, the industry which has great advantages to develop and receives big investments, have been on the verge of bankruptcy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The physical strength of Vietnamese people is at a lower average, which has been blamed on the inappropriate physical education at schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After more than one month checking black boxes installed in vehicles to uncover traffic violations, law enforcers have struggled to punish those guilty of offences due to a lack of legal documentation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications is working on a decree on accepting foreign digital certification as part of a programme to advance the use of digital signatures and e-transactions.

  Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said that attention should be paid to lift ASEAN internal connectivity to a new height while pursuing the essential principles of the group in outlining a post-2015 vision.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Considered as a beautiful pearl of Hoi An in the central coast province of Quang Nam, the Cham Island has many interesting things to explore.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The Mekong Delta has seaports and international airports, but due to its poor transport infrastructure and low labor skills, foreign investors do not want to pour capital into the region.

 The Swiss city of Zurich on Thursday unveiled a sex drive-in which local authorities say will enable them to keep closer tabs on prostitution, a year after voters backed the plan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of production workshops have been relocated out of the inner city under a program initiated by the HCM City local authorities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of hectares of forest in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have been devastated due to the irresponsibility of local officials working on agriculture and forestry projects.

 Egypt's security forces started on Thursday evening to disperse a new sit-in supporting ousted President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, state TV reported.

The Japan Times on August 12 reported that the Ministry of Transport of Vietnam has agreed in principle to pay VND155 billion of compensation to the Japanese contractor Tokyu for arising costs caused by the delay of the Nhat Tan Bridge project.

 The Vietnam Food Administration said that it would continue to test all fresh rice vermicelli products in the country following a scandal that rice noodles were contaminated with Tinopal whitening agent.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Phong Nha - Ke Bang in Quang Binh province, in central Vietnam, is preparing to celebrate its tenth anniversary of being awarded the UNESCO world natural heritage title.