VietNamNet Bridge – New measures to protect sea turtles are needed as their number has fallen sharply because of human impact and economic development, delegates heard at a conference last Friday in the central province of Ninh Thuan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A comedy film about pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) will be released in cinemas later this month.

 Global Petro Bank, or GP.Bank, is likely to be nationalised if it fails to meet a legal capital requirement by tomorrow.

 As of June 20, Japan had invested US$37.7 billion in 2,661 projects in Viet Nam, statistics from the Foreign Investment Department show.

 The Transport Ministry has proposed that Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (SBIC) be allowed to sell 70% of shares at Song Cam Shipbuilding Joint Stock Company to Damen Shipyards Group.

 Shrimps in nearly 5,500ha of area have died off until the end of June at Soc Trang Province in the Mekong Delta.

 Private enterprises say they need further policy incentives and simpler legal documentation in order to invest in research and transfer of agricultural technologies.

 Demand for labourers in the first six months of the year rose 34 per cent over the same period last year, according to an online conference held on Saturday by Vietnamworks, the top employment and recruitment website in Viet Nam.

 Central and south-central Viet Nam will cool down after days of hot weather with forecasted rain and storms today.

 The HCM City People's Committee has rejected a petition by local authorities in a district to allow an unlicensed private children's shelter to obtain a licence and continue functioning.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to Mozambique Nguyen Van Trung had a meeting with Mozambiquean Interior Minister Jaime Monteiro in Maputo capital on July 3.

 A senior Party official has hailed the upcoming US visit of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as marking yet another milestone in the relations between Vietnam and the US.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong met and granted an interview to the US press prior to his official visit to the US on July 3.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and a high-ranking delegation left Hanoi on the night of July 5 for an official visit to the US from July 6-10.

VietNamNet Bridge – After a 15-minute ride from the centre of Danang, the biggest city on the Central Coast of Vietnam, I reached its renowned stone carving village, Non Nuoc, which lies at the foot of the picturesque Marble Mountain.

VietNamNet would like to introduce the next article in our series about 20 years of Vietnam-US relations since normalization. The article concerns the history of relations before the August Revolution, 1945.

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts doubt that the decree on the investment mode of private public partnership (PPP) will cause a breakthrough in infrastructure development. 

Canadian experimental pop band Braids will have a concert at 7 p.m. on July 16 at Cargo Back Stage in HCMC’s District 4, a destination on its Asian tour to promote their latest album “Deep In The Iris.”

VietNamNet Bridge - SCTV, VTVcab, VNPT, Viettel and FPT are in competition to provide integrated services for television, internet and voice calls on the same cable line. 

 Take-away fast food is booming at the moment as Vietnamese companies team-up with foreign fast food giants to expand their businesses.