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The gold price soared dramatically yesterday August 8 – the day described as “crazy day”. The State Bank of Vietnam has announced it will grant quotas to import gold to ease the fever. The news has immediately pushed the dollar prices up.

Objection is widespread to plans proposed by the Vietnam Road Administration to impose road fees in an effort to have sufficient capital for the Road Maintenance Fund, though all agree that repairing and upgrading the road system is imperative.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam ’s Sate, National Assembly and Government leaders met separately in Hanoi on August 8 with Lao Party General Secretary and State President Choummaly Sayasone.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundred of delegates from 25 countries and territories around the world gathered in Hanoi on August 8 for the second International Conference of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin Victims in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry organised a ceremony to hoist the flags of ASEAN and Vietnam in Hanoi on August 8 to mark the 44th founding anniversary of ASEAN and the 16th anniversary of Vietnam’s admission to ASEAN.

VietNamNet Bridge – There are women who fell into adversity: getting married, having baby and knowing their husbands are gays.

VietNamNet Bridge - Central Thua Thien Hue Province's People's Committee plans to invest over VND23 billion (US$1.1 million) to host National Tourism Year 2012.

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for strengthened nuclear safety after visiting Japan's disaster-hit zone in Fukushima on Monday.

Chair of the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Dao Van Hung believes that the current electricity pricing mechanism is not reasonable, because it only benefits rich people and encourages people and enterprises to use energy-wasting equipment.

His Majesty the King endorsed the election of Yingluck Shinawatra as Thailand's 28th Prime Minister on Monday following the House Speaker's audience.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nam Phan, 28, will be the first Vietnamese-American athlete to compete at the UFC, a mixed martial arts event comprising boxing, Thai muay and karate.

A passenger plane with 36 people aboard skidded off runway in Blagoveshchensk in Russia's Far East on Monday, leaving at least 15 people injured.

The Wall Street opened broadly lower on Monday, the first trading day after Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. triple-A credit rating, with the NASDAQ and The Standard & Poor's 500 tumbling over 2 percent.

“How to turn the marine strategy into reality” is the topic of the talks between VietNamNet and Dr. Chu Hoi, vice chief of the General Department of Sea and Islands and Dr. Tran Dinh Thien, director of the Central Economic Management Institute.

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More than 1,500 people were evacuated Monday from a clothes market in Russia's Samara city for a bomb threat, reported Interfax news agency.

VietNamNet Bridge - The new government for 2011-2016 will continue to make administrative reforms a key task. The newly-elected Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc tells why.

Typhoon Muifa passing over South Korea along its west coast left at least four dead and two others missing, the country's emergency management agency said Monday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam's rice exports in the first seven months rose to a record high of nearly 4.62 million tonnes and fetched US$2.18 billion, the Viet Nam Food Association reported.