VietNamNet Bridge – One third of the total 600 foreign workers in Da Nang City had no work permit and poses difficulties for local authorities to ensure social order, according to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam won the World Vovinam Federation (WVVF)'s second World Vovinam Championships after bagging 20 gold, four silver and two bronze medals on Saturday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Sea Village Festival opens today, Aug 1, in the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan with participation of troupes from the south-central coastal provinces.

The project to build an access road from Nhat Tan bridge north of Hanoi to Noi Bai International Airport has been finalised to begin construction this month, according to Project Management Unit 85 (PMU85), the project developer’s representative.

The price escalations have forced state employees to fasten their belt and seek additional incomes from extra jobs. However, they now tend to become self-employed to evade tax instead of acting as hired workers for other agencies or companies.

Fifty people were injured in a train accident in Indian state of West Bengal Sunday evening, reported local media.

Experts at a conference on investment channels held in HCMC on Thursday differed over the impacts of high interest rates on enterprises, as some said the high cost of capital was driving local firms to bankruptcy and others rejected it.

VietNamNet Bridge – Poor infrastructure, particularly the transport system, is the deadly weak point of the Mekong Delta.

Scientists climbed up to the mountain in Pu Mat national park, Nghe an province in the early morning to listen to gibbons’ sounds to trace them. Finally, they found out more than 400 critically endangered white-cheeked crested gibbons.

The death toll from Sunday's suicide car bomb in Afghan Helmand province has risen to 11 with 12 others injured, a local official said.

An overloaded private pleasure boat carrying 16 people sank in the Moscow river after bumping into a cargo barge early Sunday, leaving nine passengers dead, authorities said.

VietNamNet Bridge – At least three people were killed and no damage was reported when tropical typhoon Nock-Ten hit the central provinces of Thanh Hoa and Nghe An on July 30.

VietNamNet Bridge – The developers of content services for mobile phones have been struggling to survive, because they cannot sell products now, when the market remains not big enough.

It is said that Phan Thi Bich Hang’s special ability appeared after she died and came alive again. She is now the most renowned telepath in Vietnam. Besides successes, there are bad rumors about this special woman.

Samsung Electronics to increase capital to US$1.5 billion; Vietnam has big trade deficit with Asia; DHL says to invest more in Vietnam; Price management law to be submitted next year; Rice export contracts signed  

FIFA President Joseph Blatter presided over the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Preliminary Draw in the city of Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.

Activist says around 79 people were killed Sunday in several Syrian cities in clashes with security forces, as army troops in tanks swept into some cities at dawn Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite credit tightening and challenges on the home and global markets, several Vietnamese companies have still managed to maintain work on their ongoing projects abroad.

While welding a lightning-rod, sparks shot out to a nearby pile of sponges, causing a huge fire at a footwear workshop in Hai Phong on July 29. Thirteen people died and 21 others were moved to the National Burn Hospital in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is well known in the world as the fourth biggest rubber exporter. However, its businesses usually complain that they lack rubber materials for their production.

The death toll from tropical storm Nock-ten (local code: Juaning) in the Philippines has risen to 52, the country's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Chu Mo Commune in Ia Pa District in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, was one of the regions known for breeding elephants. However, Ksor Cham is now the only one who feeds the elephants in Plei Pa Kdranh Village.

VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued Decree 46, under which   licensing regulations for foreign workers will be tightened, effective August 1.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Several foreign business chambers and associations in Vietnam have just sent a joint petition to the Prime Minister seeking reversal of new rules on foreign labor in Vietnam that will take effect next week.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s U19 football team will get one-month training at the Youth Football Training Centre in Hanoi from August 3 in preparation for Southeast Asian Football Cup 2011.