VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has agreed to postpone the implementation of a circular on importing used machinery, equipment and technology.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Phones and phone parts continued to be the biggest export earner in the first eight months this year, with total revenue expanding 13.7% year-on-year to US$15.22 billion, according to the General Statistics Office.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Every lover of Vietnamese music knows Bac Ninh as the home of quan ho (love duets) and ca tru (ceremonial singing), both listed by UNESCO as intangible heritages of mankind.

 The People’s Committee of northern Bac Ninh province on July 2 granted an investment license to Samsung Display Co, Ltd for a US$1 billion project in the Yen Phong Industrial Park.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen provinces are competing to win the contract for a new Samsung investment project that involves manufacture of hi-tech screens.

 Samsung group is urgently finalising documents to invest an additional US$1 billion in the Samsung Bac Ninh Hi-Tech Complex, according to Hai Quan (Customs) newspaper.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two companies in Bac Ninh Province plan to sue local authorities for having licensed their cockroach raising farms if they are not compensated for the recent destruction of their businesses.

 Argentinean comes to talk about art; Lo River shipwreck offers insight into Viet Nam's trading history; Hue Festival a mix of old and new; Five local bands compete at Hard Rock Rising; YxineFF introduced in France

VietNamNet Bridge – Samsung’s cell-phone production factory in Thai Nguyen Province has started operation after nearly one year of construction, said a source from Samsung Vina Electronics Co. Ltd.

VietNamNet Bridge – An old man in the northern province of Bac Ninh has ridden his bicycle to various villages, collecting old folk tunes, for the past 50 years.

VietNamNet Bridge – The People's Court in northern Bac Ninh Province last week sentenced 40 former soldiers to between eight months' and seven years' imprisonment for unlawfully appropriating property

 Book delves into Nguyen apparel; General Giap literature gets addition; Top hairstylist contest launches; Thua Thien-Hue moves to protect specialties; Festival to highlight Bac Ninh province’s culture

VietNamNet Bridge – Old artisan Nguyen Huu Sam in the village, which specializes in making Dong Ho folk paintings in Dong Ho Village, Song Ho Commune, Thuan Thanh District, Bac Ninh Province is considered a “living treasure” of the village.  

In traditional thinking, animals are sacrificed to the god of fortune and prosperity. However, many complain they are brutal and should be wiped out of modern society. Professor Tran Lam Bien, a noted researcher on faith, talks about the issue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Being built in the 17th century, But Thap pagoda still preserves many beautiful works, especially, the biggest wood statue of Guan Yin in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The northern province of Bac Ninh – a gateway to the capital city of Hanoi – is put on alert after bird flu has spread across a number of its localities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of people of Phu Lam commune, Tien Du district in Bac Ninh province surrounded the headquarters of the commune government for two days to protest the implementation of a waste treatment project.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Fires broke out from a paint warehouse and spread rapidly, making an enterprise of thousands of square meters of a Korean company in the Yen Phong Industrial Zone collapse.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tonnes of untreated waste in Nam Thanh Commune's Binh Yen Village have been discharged into fields and canals, polluting the environment and causing headaches for authorities in northern Nam Dinh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – When did Ha Noi become the capital of Viet Nam? What are Dong Ho paintings? What pagoda is the oldest in Viet Nam? What pagodas have unique structures or Buddhist treasures?