VietNamNet Bridge – Most of the students who placed first or recorded high marks on university entrance exams are from rural areas or poor families.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai has confirmed that the ministry will pay compensation for farmers whose crops were damaged when the dam of the Krel 2 hydro-power plant released water last Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An investigation at the Bo De Pagoda in Long Bien District in Hanoi will be expanded after a caretaker of orphans at the pagoda was arrested on Monday on allegations of selling children.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City’s central District 1 has installed cameras to control traffic and crime, the district’s vice chair said yesterday.

 President Truong Tan Sang hosted a reception in Ha Noi yesterday for former acting President of Japan's Democratic Party Sengoku Yoshito.

President Truong Tan Sang told Senator Bob Corker, a member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said yesterday that Viet Nam was ready to expand economic and trade ties with the US .

 VietNamNet Bridge – Analysts predict a new wave of commercial banks taking over finance companies following a new government decree.

 Solidarity is the key to the success of ASEAN in overcoming poverty and separation to become a united bloc with dynamic development over the past five decades, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has stated.

 Vietnam attaches special importance to stepping up cooperation with the US in all fields, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told outgoing US ambassador David Shear at a reception in Hanoi on August 5.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A few days after internationally-renowned Starbucks Coffee opened its first shop in Ha Noi, people still had to queue up for a cup of American-styled coffee.

A VND2.3 trillion (US$108 million) project is set to begin in November to expand T2 International Terminal of Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There are numerous research & development (R&D) units in Vietnam, but Vietnamese have few patent cooperation treaties (PCT) registered at WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization). Who is to blame?

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government should take measures to reduce the difficulties and risks involved in investing in tourism properties so that the sector can revive, experts have told a conference.

VietNamNet Bridge – A photo collection entitled ‘Tuong Tran Thoi Binh’ by photographer Tran Viet Van has recently won the gold medal in the portrait photo category and the bronze medal in the regional journalism photo category

 VietNamNet Bridge – The overweight and obese rate among children under five years old in Ho Chi Minh City has increased threefold over the past decade, posing major nutritional and health challenges to the southern city,

 $750M project faces uncertain future after arrest of top officials; Central bank says money withdrawals at VNCB drop; Government issues resolution to spur production; Delta fruit crops hit as disease spreads

 VietNamNet Bridge – An old family with connections to the last Vietnamese dynasty yesterday (Aug 4) donated precious documents on Viet Nam's sovereignty over the sea and islands to the State.

VietNamNet Bridge – As the summer heat subsides and families return to the city after vacation, schools are starting to call students back for revision before the academic year begins in September.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Public telephones are likely to appear again in Ho Chi Minh City after nearly two years of absence.

 Europe's forests have experienced increased disturbances throughout the 20th Century from wind, bark beetles and wildfires, a study has shown.