VietNamNet Bridge – Biologist Dang Ngoc Minh and his six-member team have spent months mapping out a plan to fight the poisonous red tide that occasionally colours kilometres of water along the coast near the central city of Da Nang.

Nam Cuong Group, the investor of expanded Le Van Luong road, claimed the construction of USilk City apartment buildings as the reason causing the sinkhole on the road. Meanwhile, the investor of USilk City laid the blame on downpours.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Around 120 male and female fencers from 6 cities and provinces are competing at the 3rd National Junior Fencing Championships in the northern province of Hai Duong from August 19-28.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the evening of August 20, a hundred motorbikes were punctured on Kim Ma Road, Hanoi, owing to nails. Street cleaners and local people collected ten kilos of nails on the road.

 South Africa and Vietnam are set to sign a landmark deal to help stem rhino poaching and the illicit trade in rhino horns, activists and a government official said Monday.

 The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, in cooperation with CAMA, will bring Japanese rapper Coma-chi to Hanoi on Thursday and to Hoi An City on Saturday and Sunday as part of Hoi An-Japan Festival 2012.

The Veterinary Agency has submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development--the draft amendment to Circular 33 on hygiene and food safety at raw meat trading firms, said Deputy Minister Diep Kinh Tan on August 21.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications is considering charging new mobile phone subscribers at least VND40,000 (US$2) to start using phone services, said department of telecommunications deputy director Nguyen Van Tru.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam hopes the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will continue to provide its short- and long-term technical assistance to develop Vietnam’s atomic energy for peaceful purposes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 77,087 foreigners from more than 60 countries and territories are working in Vietnam, of whom 24,455 are unlicensed, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

 Two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station (ISS) started on Monday a spacewalk, which was delayed by nearly an hour due to minor problems with airtightness, the Mission Control Center said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Artists inspired by the country's islands and territorial waters show their work at an exhibition entitled Nation's Border, Sea and Islands, which has opened in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has called on people to change their behaviour toward using home-made drugs and be aware of the production capacity of domestic drug manufacturers.

 Mexico's national soccer team, winner of the gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games, was valued Monday at 42.2 million US dollars by Germany's Transfermarkt, a website specializing in player swaps among teams in Europe.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Van Dong of Tan Thuan Thao-Can Tho won the eighth and final stage of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Cycling Tournament yesterday after finishing the 153km race from Ha Tien Town to Vi Thanh City in front.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The second International Piano Competition Vietnam has kicked off, with new rules promising improved quality and judging standards.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Reinforcing dykes that face the sea helped the northern coastal province of Nam Dinh lessen storm damage and ensure people's safety, said the provincial Agriculture and Rural Development Department.

 VietNamNet Bridge – President Truong Tan Sang yesterday, Aug 20, awarded titles to 25 prosecutors of the Supreme People's Procuracy, four prosecutors of the Central Military Procuracy and a judge of the Central Military Court.

 VietNamNet Bridge – SHB Da Nang claimed the 2012 Eximbank V-League title on Sunday following a dramatic finale, but organisers have a lot of work ahead of them if they want to improve the top-flight league.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Efficient personnel planning, especially for leaders and managers, will enhance the Party's leadership role in implementing important political tasks.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Duc Kien, a famous banker and football investor was arrested Monday, August 20.

When a group of researchers implemented the project on surveying the public debts of Vietnam, they complained that it is very difficult to approach the material sources to fulfill the report.

 Entities and individuals who have bent or otherwise deformed gold bars, or are holding non-SJC bullion should not sell them at low prices now, says State Bank of Viet Nam Deputy Governor Le Minh Hung.

Non-state owned universities and vocational schools have been quietly hunting for the students failing the university entrance exams--to invite them to study at their schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Much of the safety gear currently on the market is insufficiently labelled, posing a threat to labourers' health, experts have said.