VietNamNet Bridge – Despite the big economic difficulties, a lot of Vietnamese people still decide to travel abroad this summer to relax or seek business partners.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese government will require state-invested enterprises to reduce the percentage of capital they invest in non-core business activities under a draft regulation compiled by the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

VietNamNet Bridge – With a rainfall of nearly 300 mm, thousands of hectares of ripen rice fields in Thanh Hoa province in central Vietnam were flooded. Hundreds of soldiers helped local people to save the rice.

VietNamNet Bridge – The most beautiful landscapes in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar will be shot in a film for introduction in the four countries.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese construction firm Cavico Corp has been warned of being delisted from US NASDAQ stock market.

VNPT completes fibre optic system; Viettel invests in Peru; PeaceSoft, Paypal join hands; Nghe An launches web portal; Siemens launches new software; Infor, TRG offer business solutions; Intel Vietnam looks for domestic suppliers

VietNamNet Bridge – State owned nursery schools will only begin issuing forms for applications for the schools from July 1, 2011. However, seats at the schools have run out since early June.

Certain groups of farmers might as well find it agreeable when large volumes of farm produce are en route to China via the border trade, from rubber and pepper to cassava, from pork to fowls and eggs, and from shrimp and fish to sugar.

Reader Friendly (nhanbk2009@...com) wrote: “We have so many things need to improve but I think if I were foreign travelers, I would have chosen Vietnam because of stability and security”.

The interest rate race has cooled down when big commercial banks have lowered the deposit interest rates by 1-2.5 percent. However, when the worry about the overly high interest rates has been left, a new worry has arisen.

Photo contest on peer educators to kick off in Hanoi; Posters, banners deface Hue; Libraries must do more to lure children; “Hanoi Spring” exhibition opens in Bangkok; Daily life unmasked by Corazon Higgins; Songs for AO victims awarded

VietNamNet Bridge - The HCMC government has just asked the municipal Police Department to consider a plan to establish the tourist police bureau to protect tourists in the city, an official said.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Gold Traders Association has urged the central bank to ease some of the proposed regulations in its draft decree on the operation of the gold jewelry business.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Television has begun broadcast of several serials based on the lives of urban school students and their families during summer.

VietNamNet Bridge – A 1/500 scale blueprint for a 157ha golf course located in HCM City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport has been approved by the People's Committee of Tan Binh District.

The number of people suffering from fatty liver disease is increasing, especially among young people, according to Assistant Professor Pham Thi Thu Ho, vice chairwoman of the Viet Nam Digestology Association.

VietNamNet Bridge – Dov S-S Simens, voted as "the US’ No1 Film Instructor" by the US National Association of Film Schools, began a three-day workshop for Vietnamese filmmakers in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday, June 26.

Jailed PMU18 chief in the dock again; Upgrade of border markers finished; Man, 23, arrested for intellectual property scam

More than one million jubilant New Yorkers lined on Fifth Avenue on Sunday for the city's annual Gay Pride Parade, celebrating the passage of an historic bill legalizing same-sex marriage signed into law Friday night.

VietNamNet Bridge – National head coach Falko Goetz promised a fresh Vietnamese football team for their 2014 World Cup qualifying match against Macau on Wednesday.