In-app advertising has been overtaking the mobile web channel in Vietnam, with the click-through rate on apps found to be 1.5 times as high as the mobile web click-through rate.

Experts have described increasing damming in the Mekong River in China, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia as a major threat to water security in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, calling on the Government to take prompt measures to deal with the situation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Architect Tran Ngoc Chinh, Chairman of Viet Nam Urban Planning and Development, spoke to the newspaper Kinh Te & Do thi about the need for tough policies in urban planning and management.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Da Lat is not only a renowned tourist-resort city of Vietnam but also famous for  unusual and interesting sites.

HCMC is looking for funding from international organizations to support local startups in a bid to achieve the target of having 500,000 enterprises by 2020, an official said on July 27.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Eight photographers will showcase their best work at an upcoming Ha Noi Book Centre exhibition at No 4 Dinh Le Street, Hoan Kiem District.

VietNamNet Bridge – A joke about a customer going to a tattoo shop to get tattoos all over her body to clarify the various body parts has gone viral after a series of medical errors involving wrong-site surgeries have recently occurred in Viet Nam.

The Dung Quat Bio Ethanol Plant owned by the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has ceased operations after racking up debts with three local banks.

Muong Thanh Group on July 29 inaugurated the five-star Muong Thanh Luxury Vientiane Hotel in Laos’s capital of Vientiane, marking a new progress in the firm’s ambition to become the largest hotel chain developer in Indochina.

Deputies highlighted the Government’s determination to ensure macro-economy stability and sustainable economic growth on the fringe of the first session of the 14 th National Assembly.  

VietNamNet Bridge – In the last few days, Da Nang coastline has been ‘attacked’ by masses of jellyfish, which have made the beaches here less safe for tourists.

South Korea’s food-making conglomerate Daesang has bought nearly full stake in Duc Viet Food Joint-Stock Co. at $32 million in a move to make inroads into Vietnam’s meat processing market with high growth potential.

The Ministry of Health on July 28 issued a decision to impose VND433 million fines on Coca-Cola Vietnam for administrative violations on food safety and to withdraw a batch of Samurai drinks from sale.

VietNamNet Bridge – Inspecting the office of a travel firm in Da Nang, local police detected and seized many posters that named Vietnam’s East Sea as China Beach.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local netizens were upset after seeing a clip of two foreign tourists, a man and a woman, swaying and then taking off their pants on Bui Vien Street, called the Street of Foreigners in Saigon.

Fallen trees on the street, houses without roofs, and pedestrians knocked by wind were among the images shared on social networks after Mirinae, the first typhoon of the season, hit northern Vietnam on July 27.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 10,000 fans will participate in the Fun Beach Festival, a music festival, at East Sea Park in Da Nang from August 12 to 14.

A baby girl was born at 8:10 am Thursday morning at the Obstetrics Department of Hue Central Hospital, the first baby born through a surrogate mother at the hospital.

Ninety per cent of students sitting this year’s national university entrance exams scored 5 out of 10 or less in English when combined with their score in high school graduation exams, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Typhoon Mirinae, the first to hit Vietnam this year, has caused human and property damage in the north of the country after it rolled into the mainland from the midnight of Wednesday.