VietNamNet Bridge - A group of international experts will arrive in Vietnam on July 11 to help the country create a tourism marketing strategy and an action plan for tourism development in the future.

VietNamNet Bridge – The mobile phone imports in the first six months of 2012 were 23 percent lower than that of the same period of the last year, which has been explained by the low demand in the economic crisis.

Online retail giant Amazon. com is developing a smartphone in an attempt to further crack the fiercely competitive market of mobile devices, U.S media reported Friday.

The visiting international envoy Kofi Annan said Monday he has concluded an approach with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad regarding ending the violence, adding that the approach will be also shared with the armed opposition.

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of steel enterprises have died actually, though none of them has declared bankruptcy.

The Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Central Bank Governor, the Chief Government Inspector and the Chief Judge of the People’s Supreme Court will be interpellated at the National Assembly session in August.

VietNamNet Bridge – Disable, poor, unlucky students still try to attend the university entrance exams. The most valuable thing they bring with themselves to the exam rooms is the extraordinary courage.

Nokia says good-bye to local distributor; First foreign deal in pharma sector; First green hydro-power plant opens; Government to establish Department of Real Estate;Can Tho refinery reaches end game

Disbursement of foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to reach US$10 billion by the end of this year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Quang Tri hosts ‘National Traditional Boat Race 2012’; Book about Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu published; Nestle runs healthy life photo contest

450-kg bomb found in Ha Tinh; Agency suspends program to send workers to Portugal; Slaughterhouses fail on hygiene standards; Violent wood poachers identified by police

VietNamNet Bridge – Many people have expressed their concern on the announcement that local pop singer Dam Vinh Hung will release 500 real butterflies during a performance at his concert this month.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Tran Anh Tuan has asked Thanh Hoa authorities to explain about the news that one commune in this province has up to 500 civil servants.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Forest Protection Sub-department in the southern province of Ca Mau on Sunday released a large number of wild animals, weighing 20 tons in total, into U Minh Ha National Park.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam won two first prizes at the 6th International Cinema, Television and Sports and Tourism Festival, which closed in Hanoi on July 7.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s futsal team Thai Son Bac defeated Singapore’s Touch N Go 4-3 in the final round to win the Tiger Cup in Guangzhou, China on July 8.

VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time--a fisherman in the southern province of An Giang caught a Mekong giant catfish of over 70 kilos.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese people own a debt of gratitude to the Cuban people for their support, sentiment and assistance in the past struggle for national independence and the current process of national construction and development.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has released the 2012 travel and tourism competitiveness report, stating that the bloc’s tourism industry is now on the right track.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi Department of Justice has completed a notarised information management programme to help improve information search activities and minimise risks revolving around incorrect documentation.