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VietNamNet Bridge – The municipal administration is finding that removing temporary markets and street vendors is a tough task, given their continued popularity among residents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour (VGLC) has submitted plans to increase the minimum wage by 16-17 per cent in 2016 to the National Salary Council.

 Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh looks back over Vietnam - US economic relations in the 20 years since normalization.

VietNamNet Bridge - Marc Farber, the internationally famous investor, has advised securities investors to forget about China and go to Vietnam instead.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Raglai prefer to build their stilt houses on high land areas near a water resource. Each hamlet has several stilt houses and the villagers are of the same clan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Companies that fail to pay taxes will face consequences, Nguyen Thi Hai Yen, head of the Department of Communications and Support Office of the Ha Noi Tax Office, told Dau Tu newspaper.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Nhi ethnic minority people in Nam Pung Commune, Bat Xat District, Lao Cai Province are well-known for houses with old-fashioned grass roofs.

30 million Vietnamese people use social networks at some time, primarily on a smartphone. Every day nearly 20 million people do so, with some 17 million using smartphones, which is around 13 per cent higher than the global average.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Anh Tuan, director of the Institute for Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies, spoke with Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper on the meaning of the Joint Declaration on Vision of the Viet Nam-US Relationship

 Chinese Vice Premier tours Vietnam-China Friendship Palace, Seminar spotlights legal harmonisation in building ASEAN Community, NA chairman receives Lao PM, Vietnam, Cambodia conduct joint field inspection on border incident

 Beverage giant challenges decision of State Audit Office that it must pay tax arrears for 2013.

 The chance of returning to a normal weight after becoming obese is only one in 210 for men and one in 124 for women over a year, research suggests.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Banh xeo (pancakes), nem nuong (baked rolls), banh cong (cong cakes)... are the roll cuisines that foreign tourists highly recommended to try in Vietnam.

 As many as 81 foreign investors, including 15 organizations and 66 individuals were granted with stock transaction codes in June only, according to the Viet Nam Securities Depository (VSD).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Will it be Ha Noi or HCM City? Cost considerations may prove decisive as the government mulls where to organise the 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in 2021.

  The cost of constructing Metro Line 2 in HCM City is expected to exceed the initial estimate by more than US$700 million, the head of the metro project said yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - While the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) says the cell alive system (CAS), a farm produce preservation technology, is suitable to Vietnam, farmers and exporters remain undecided.

 Every Saturday night a free playground for kids is set up on Dao Duy Tu Street in the Old Quarter, with about 30 different pieces of equipment and other things to keep the kids occupied.

VietNamNet Bridge - Several districts in Hanoi have been listed by scientists as areas with underground water contaminated with arsenic.