VietNamNet Bridge – The seriously polluted environment surrounding 47 trade villages nation-wide is set to be gradually removed under the National Target Programme on Environmental Pollution Improvement during 2012-15. 

 The business of obtaining and selling internet domain names is flourishing in Viet Nam, with some names fetching thousands of dollars.

  Dr. Vo Tri Thanh, vice director of the Central Institute for Economic Management, spoke to the Daily on the country’s economic situation from now to the year’s end. Excerpts:

 The number of Chinese tourists visiting Vietnam in the January-August period dropped by 9.7% from the same period last year, and arrivals from this source market are forecast to remain weak towards the year-end.

Industrial waste, unsafe frozen products and petroleum have been imported in masses recently as temporary imports. However, the importers do not intend to re-export the imports.

The new academic year has begun, but a lot of schools in Vietnam still have not got ready for it: the material facilities have degraded, students attempt to drop out, while dangers await students on the way to schools.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Mo was a worker at an industrial park in HCM City – until she quit her job. It wasn't something the central Binh Dinh Province native wanted to do; she needs the money.  

 Veteran Director Dang Nhat Minh points out shortcomings of the movies that are funded by the state.

VietNamNet Bridge – ‘Faraway’ by Hanoi-based artist Do Tuan Anh will open on Thursday at Craig Thomas Gallery in the city’s District 1, 

"Knights of the street" are the way people call men who voluntarily hunt robbers on the street. VietNamNet talks with "knight" Nguyen Van Minh Tien about robbery in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many young doctors have shown little interest in a Ministry of Health pilot project encouraging them to work in remote areas.

  The Customs General Department has called for temporary imports and re-exports to be tightened as the problem of smuggling through temporary imports had reached alarming levels.

 The 8th International Tourism Exhibition (ITE HCMC 2012) will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from September 13-15, a municipal official has said. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Centaur Dance Showdown, an international, freestyle street dance tournament organized by Square Investment Joint Stock Co., was on Wednesday launched nationwide.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The ‘Hat Boi Art Theater’, or Vietnamese Classical Opera, and the Puppetry Art Troupe in Ho Chi Minh City have opened short training courses with participation of veteran artists to train young artists

  VietNamNet Bridge - The organizers of the Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa Sea Festival has held its first meeting to discuss the Sea Festival 2013 program.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A significant amount of scientific research on seeds done at the Southern Fruits Research Institute risks being neglected due to a shortage of funds, a grave problem given that every year

Businesses now try all possible methods to boost sales and clear the stocks. CEOs personally also have to meet customers and persuade them to buy their products. 

The authorities of Danang City on Wednesday approved the Vietnam National Museum of History and Danang Museum of Cham Sculpture to excavate a relic of Cham people at the Cam Mit area in Danang City.

VietNamNet Bridge – A horseshoe kidney patient whose both kidneys had been mistakenly removed earlier had a successful re-operation and was discharged from the Hue Central Hospital

Some travel firms have announced that they boycott the Ba Na Tourist Complex in the central city of Da Nang, because the tourist site has raised the service fees immoderately – a rarely seen thing in the tourism sector.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's television stations are being asked to broadcast more domestically made films and television series to cope with the increasing influence of foreign products.

The Internet communication market in Vietnam has witnessed the widening divisions with the forming up of two groups of companies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A bowl of rice, a fried egg, a few thin slices of pork, some French beans and a bowl of vegetable soup with very little vegetables in it – enough for a person on a diet, trying to lose weight.

While the Environment and Natural Resources Institute under the HCM City National University affirms that it is quite reasonable to build hydropower plants on the selected areas, scientists believe that the plants would damage the environment.