Meeting marks Vietnam-Laos diplomatic ties; Former NA leaders honoured with high-class orders; Dien Bien celebrates ties with Lao counterparts; Vietnam helps Laos strengthen financial skills

 The Finance Ministry has asked city and provincial authorities to prepare price management plans for transportation services in their localities to prevent any "unreasonable" hikes that can hurt consumers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A car carrying more than 40 Buddhists plunged into a ravine in Nghe An Province on August 23, killing three and injuring tens of passengers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The close relationship between Gen Vo Nguyen Giap and veterans is portrayed by photographer Nguyen Trong Nghi in an exhibition which opened in the capital yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese academic who lived and taught in France for six decades before returning home in 2005 has set up a library using a collection of books, newspapers, and documents he owned.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The development of a family doctor system in Viet Nam was handicapped by inadequate Government support, said a health expert at a recent workshop in the capital city. But, if present plans prevail, change is on the way.

Hanoi has announced that it would take back the land from 11 enterprises because the land allocation is believed to violate the Land Law. The announcement has put the enterprises on the tenterhooks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and Cambodia have maintained a time-honoured friendly and neighbourly relationship which has grown steadily in all fields, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung

Experts have warned that technically, it would be very difficult for music website administrators to collect fees from music downloads.

A lot of hydropower plant projects have been implemented in Sa Pa town, a well-known tourism site, threatening to put the wonderful landscape into oblivion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City traffic police have turned their attention to self-modified three-wheel vehicles to make sure no unregistered vehicle plies the streets.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung called for more awareness against corruption, and perfection of policies on land use and management, and the State-owned enterprises management on August 22.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cam Ne sedge-mat making village in the central city of Da Nang is very famous for its beautiful and long-lasting products.

Hanoi has stated that the state agencies in the city always keep the doors open to welcome the excellent university graduates who come first at the finals. However, most graduates keep indifferent to the invitation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Photos by Nguyen Duc Tri entitled Cuu Lay Mau Xanh (Save the Green) and Ngay Binh Yen (A Peaceful Day) have won the first and second prizes in the first annual Conception photo competition.

 The Government Inspector General Huynh Phong Tranh answered NA deputies’ questions at the 10 th session of the 13th National Assembly Standing Committee that closed on August 22.

Though the petrol price has been increasing continuously over the last month, travel firms have affirmed the fees for the tours on the September 2 holiday would be unchanged.

The quality of locally-produced drugs is inferior to foreign products. But doctors do not list them in prescriptions, while patients prefer foreign drugs because they think that the expensive drugs are better than cheap ones.

The old man with silver hair still calmly carries his barrels of gears on his old bike along the streets. Among accidental passerby, few know that he is 80 years old, who has over 20 years with a strange profession in Hanoi: sharpening knives.

Chinese businessmen have been, through different ways, doing trade illegally in Vietnam, thus causing chaos to the market and ravaging the agricultural production. This has been attributed to the loopholes existing in the Vietnamese laws.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lively and beautiful Vietnam appeared in many music video clips of foreign artists. Let’s enjoy these clips:

 ACB sets aside VND5 trillion for property loans; August CPI increases slightly; Vietnam, Laos boost kali salt mining project; Bank credit quality comes under scrutiny; Viet Nam plans to import 357,000 tonnes of cashews

 The Prime Minister last Friday gave nod to five groups of coastal economic zones (EZ) prioritized to receive State budget funds for development in the period 2013-2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ninety per cent of illegal poultry imports had been prevented over the last 10 days, however, stricter measures were needed to control the transmission of bird flu,

 More than 578,000 cannabis plants, worth over $1 billion, have been uprooted from forests and national parks in a major operation in the western United States, the Justice Department said.