The interest rate would continue to be stable over the remaining months of the year, the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) said in a report released this week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Economist Nguyen Tri Hieu talks to the Hai Quan (Customs) newspaper about possible plans to generate money for the Government’s affordable housing scheme in its second phase

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi authorities approved a plan to construct a new hotel in September at 22-32 Le Thai To Street, formerly home to the two-storey supermarket Intimex.

 Most Vietnamese singers still ignore being paid copyright fees from music downloading websites.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dozens of young and veteran actors performed recently at the Artists Pagoda, also known as the Nhat Quang Tu (Sunlight Pagoda), in HCM City’s Go Vap District, to lure fans back to traditional theatre.

The ruling on July 12 makes the arbitration case can brought by the Philippines against China a "case of history". For the first time in its history, China - "the world’s center" – was unilaterally sued by a small country in a marine dispute.

 With people spending more time online, the internet and connected devices can be a cause of family tension, a new research from Kaspersky Lab and iconKids &Youth has found.

VietNamNet Bridge - The total assets of the state in the national database by December 31, 2015 were valued at VND1,031,313.82 billion.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor has proposed increasing the minimum wage in 2017 by VND250,000 ($11.2) to VND400,000 ($17.94) per month, or 10-11 per cent.

VietNamNet Bridge – From a beautiful and lively 11th grade teenage girl, Vuong Thi Dung, now 25, from Binh Tinh Hamlet, Binh Minh Commune, Thang Binh District, Quang Nam Province, became paralyzed overnight, had to leave school

 Thousands of residents living next to or in proximity to historic relics in Ha Noi are waiting for relocation following plans to restore the sites while local authorities are still trying to find solutions amid a lack of finance and land funding.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Trang An, Hue, My Son, Hoi An are among the country's World Heritage sites and top tourist attractions.

 Masan to triple fish sauce production on Phu Quoc, Ministry issues FDI inspection guidelines, Vinacas proposes development fund for cashew industry, Imported footwear dominates local market

Graduating from Jean-Jacques Rousseau School in Sai Gon, the then 18-year-old Trinh Xuan Thuan decided to pursue the study of natural science despite his aptitude for literature.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As the 2016 rainy season in the north begins, thousands of Hanoians are traveling on temporary bridges that have stood for a long time.

In a report to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ho Chi Minh City proposed to recruit 4,920 employees for public agencies, bringing the total number of personnel in these agencies to more than 131,000 people in 2017.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of university graduates in the country’s northwestern provinces are unable to find work and are having to go to vocational colleges to study marketable skills.

The south of Viet Nam is highly vulnerable to more drought and salinisation in the future when its fellow countries in the lower Mekong river basin are in the process of diverting the river water to serve their expanding farm land,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Part painter and part magician, Pham Hong Minh’s works are clever and sometimes shocking, taking performance art to a new level.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People are asking why it has become increasingly common for leaders who are at the end of their tenures to appoint staff to leadership positions in State agencies and corporations in a non-transparent fashion.