VietNamNet Bridge - Although listed among the top 10 textile and garment exporters worldwide, Vietnam is seeing its domestic market increasingly controlled by foreign brands.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Photographer Hoang Chi Hung captured beautiful photos of the sea, nature and locals after four times of touring Truong Sa.

 EU interior ministers are to discuss how to deal with tens of thousands of migrants trying to enter Europe each year by crossing the Mediterranean.

 Thousands of people living close to a volcano in Indonesia have been forced to flee their homes after it began erupting violently.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The construction of a huge cultural work known as Van Mieu (temple of literature) in the northern province of Vinh Phuc has led to severe criticism in Vietnam in recent days.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After a gap of more than 41 years, noted overseas singer Khanh Ly met her fans last weekend in Hue City in the central province of Thua Thien Hue.

 Viet Nam won one more silver and three bronze medals to affirm the third place in medal tally at the Southeast Asian Games in Singapore yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many photos taken before and during the thunderstorm on the late afternoon of June 13 in Hanoi look like images in fiction films such as "Apocalypse" or "The Lord of the Rings".

 Vietnam-China Bilateral Cooperation to meet for eighth session, Laos, Vietnam step up inspection cooperation, Vietnam-New Zealand mark 40 years of diplomatic relations, Lawmakers in discussions on legal reforms

 A “Golden Tourism Week” will take place in the Hue ancient imperial relic site, a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage, in the central Thua Thien-Hue province from June 15-21.

  Two top officials of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) have been accused by a subordinate of taking bribes from him, only a few days after he was laid off in a major downsizing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam discovered 5,500 more people living with HIV in the first six months of this year,

 VietNamNet Bridge – City authorities in Ha Noi have, in principle, allowed the Hoan Kiem district people's committee to restart controversial work replacing brick tiles on the promenade around its famous Guom Lake (Sword Lake) with blue-stone tiles.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) on Sunday released 35 Javan pangolins (Manis javanica) into the wild at the Cat Tien National Park in southern Dong Nai province.

 The Vietnam Competition Authority's 2014 Annual Report says that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have gathered pace in most industries.

The UN Human Rights Council started its 29th session on June 15 in Geneva, Switzerland with the participation of representatives from dozens of UN agencies, human rights non-governmental organisations and member states, including Vietnam.

 According to the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, Saigon Port Company Limited will make its initial public offering (IPO) on June 30.

 The Nghi Son Economic Zone (EZ) in central Thanh Hoa province is expected to become a multi-sector industrial area with a focus on refinery-petrochemical and basic industries in the near future.

While the government has been asked to remove business barriers to create favorable conditions for investors, the Ministry of Health (MOH) plans to create a new regulation that will require enterprises to spend VND1.1 trillion more a year.

In 2014, the Department of Molecular Biology and Clinical Institute of Tropical Medicine under the Army Hospital 108 discovered a method to detect the MERS-CoV virus in medical waste.