The mine explosions from the quarry being exploited by the Cao Bang Cement Joint Stock Company have become the obsession of local residents in Cao Bang Town.

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Vietnam is suffering heavy losses due to increasingly severe droughts under the impacts of the El Nino phenomenon, as statistics show that in the first six months of 2012 natural disasters brought losses of over VND2 trillion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Science and technology have been identified as the key drivers of economic restructure in Viet Nam, but the Government's policies have failed to attract young researchers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more universities in Viet Nam are using a well-known teaching methodology to improve training quality and improve learning in the classroom.

 State-owned enterprises are again set to miss catching their annual equitisation wave.

 A bus that will go to HCM City's major tourist attractions from the city centre will begin operating on September 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Supermodel Thanh Hang appeared as the vedette in several collections at the “Fashion and Life” August show in HCM City on August 23.

Vietnamese enterprises have become the easy prey for foreign investors as they are getting cheaper than ever.

Hanoi has once again shown its determination to clear the vendors who solicit a welcome to foreign travelers and ask them to buy souvenirs, thus smearing the image of Hanoi’s tourism in the eyes of travelers.

More and more poor students stop going to school after their finish secondary education. Others continue studying at high schools, but they are thought to drop out sooner or later.

  VietNamNet Bridge - Hoang Su Phi’s terraced fields will be recognized as a national relic on September 16. On these days, terraced fields have turned yellow.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Traffic in the capital city has improved thanks to the adjustment of school and working hours earlier this year, according to a survey revealed Aug 23.

When accessing Gmail.vn, Vietnamese Internet users were so surprised when they were led to a website of Baidu, China’s biggest Internet service firm.

Some individual investors have urged the State Securities Commission (SSC) to make an urgent intervention to stop the slide of the stock market. Meanwhile, experts believe that the market needs to perform its way.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pop singer Duc Tuan will perform in Manila in a concert on August 28 to celebrate Viet Nam's 67th Independence Day, which falls on September 2.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dozens of angry people pitched tents to besiege a molipden ore processing factory in the northern port city of Hai Phong. This factory cannot run because of the siege.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 80 per cent of the country's pharmacies reach international standard, however, not all are evenly distributed, said Nguyen Tat Dat, head of the Drug Administration of Viet Nam's Trading Management Division.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received Jeffrey Immelt, head of President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, in Hanoi on August 24.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The most attractive cultural features of ethnic groups in Tay Nguyen (the Central Highlands) will be presented during the second Central Highlands Cultural Days event organised in Hanoi this month.

It seems to be more difficult to ask someone to pay debts nowadays, when all businesses and people are bogged down in the economic recession. Therefore, it requires special tricks to recover debts.

After a two-day private meeting with the 2012 Olympic delegation, the General Department of Sports and Physical Training’s head Vuong Bich Thang assumed responsibility for Vietnam’s poor performance at the Olympic Games.

National Highway 20 is being upgraded to serve the transportation of bauxite from Tan Rai bauxite factory in Lam Dong province. However, this road is in a terrible condition at present. VietNamNet’s Quoc Quang reports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Also protecting themselves with helmets, Lo Lo ethnic children in Coc Xa hamlet in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang compete in fierce races on home-made “motorbikes.”

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