Orchestra unites skilled SE Asian musicians; City girl joins Asia’s Next Top Model in Singapore; Spratly photos on show

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 50 international organisations have joined hands to promote and preserve the cultural heritage in the central city of Hue, after UNESCO called for their support.

Besides pornographic and violent websites, websites teaching how to commit suicide in Vietnamese language have appeared, poisoning children who suffer from depression or those who want to assert themselves in wrong ways.

 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is set to touch down in the Gale Crater area of Mars early Monday. The mission will study whether the Red Planet has evidence of past and present habitable environments.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The story of Agent Orange victim Nguyen Duc has inspired Japanese high school teacher Toshiaki Uchimoto to compose a song about peace.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Nguyen Van Minh, 69, in Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi, has taken advantage of his afternoon exercise time to remove small ads on walls, electric poles, etc. to beautify the street for ten years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of fishing boats in the sea provinces of Da Nang, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh and Phu Yen have to stay ashore, because cuttlefish cannot be sold to Chinese merchants, who have unexpectedly disappeared.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Old motorbikes are likely to be removed from the roads as Ho Chi Minh City authorities have considered establishing minimum standards for vehicles to be eligible for circulation, and an expiry date for their duration of use.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To cross the Nam La River, people in U Ra village in Phong Tho district of the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau have to stand on a plank to slip over the river with a cable.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's Le Huynh Chau will compete with the No 2 seed Wei Chen Yang from Chinese Taipei in the first match of the men's taekwondo 58kg category tomorrow, Aug 8, in the London Olympics.

 HCM City to build taxi barriers; 250,000 disabled people to get jobs by 2015; Romanian seized for using fake ATM cards; Landslide kills two in Cao Bang; Soc Trang farmer captures 80kg python

 U.S. stocks climbed higher and remained at the highest level in three months on Monday as positive remarks on Greek debt conditions and hopes for more stimulus added to gains boosted by the upbeat U.S. jobs report.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has nominated Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh as ASEAN Secretary General in the 2013-2017 term, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Professional Football (VPF) and the Japan Professional Football League (J-League) signed a cooperation agreement in Hanoi on August 7.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Several locally-made animated films that recently captured public attention are not enough to raise up Vietnam’s sluggish cartoon industry.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An orangutan at HCM City’s Dam Sen Cultural Park has delivered a baby.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Missosology, a widely-known website on international beauty contests, calls Vietnamese contestant Vu Hoang My “a rising star” and predicts that the Vietnamese girl will enter the interview round of the Miss World pageant.

Coming to Vietnam to study, soldiers of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea wanted to go into battle like real airmen. They shot down tens of enemy aircraft but many of them died for Vietnam’s independence and freedom.

 VietNamNet Bridge – China’s first ambassador to ASEAN, Yang Xiuping, presented her credentials to ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan at the ASEAN Secretariat’s headquarters in the capital city of Indonesia on August 6.

Though the supply of penthouses is limited with just several penthouses for every block building, penthouses in HCM City still have been left unsold.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 8th National Junior Sports Festival opened in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 6, gathering more than 65,000 athletes from 63 cities and provinces across the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam hopes to receive further support from the Rules Committee of the US’s House of Representative in boosting ties between the two countries as well as two parliaments.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Unrelenting rains and high tides last week caused water levels in the Mekong River's upstream areas in Dong Thap Muoi (Plain of Reeds) to rise sharply, according to the Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have affirmed their determination to consolidate and develop their time-honoured friendship in line with the aspirations and for the benefit of the two peoples.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors of HCM City-based Trung Vuong Hospital have detected a 2cm screw in the brain of man in HCM City. This is a very occasional case, doctors said.