VietNamNet Bridge – Huynh Van Don, who lost an arm in an accident while grinding rice, still pulls his wagon full of rice husks 10 km every day in the southern province of Long An.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Director of the Ministry of Planning and Investment's Enterprise Development Department Ho Sy Hung spoke with Hai Quan about a development plan to support SMEs

 VietNamNet Bridge – When Korean tenor Park Sung-min married Vietnamese pianist Trang Trinh, it cemented his relationship with Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – To get the right to collect garbage in some certain areas, the owners of garbage-collection cooperatives have to pay billions of dong to buy the “areas” from their predecessors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of people with HIV in Viet Nam has fallen to under 0.3 per cent, said National Assembly Committee for Social Affairs Vice Chairman Dang Thuan Phong at a conference on Thursday.

 Opportunities await rice exporters; Vietnamese auto industry aims high by 2020; Foreign funds seek to invest in local tech firms; Vietnam looks to restructure transport sector by 2020; Major coastal apartment and resort projects in Danang stalled

 VietNamNet Bridge – A unique get together between world famous Vietnamese mathematician Ngo Bao Chau and visual artist Ly Hoang Ly has ended up in a display in downtown Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam continues to sell its high-quality crude oil at high prices and buy crude oil cheaply from other countries for its domestic refinery.

 VietNamNet Bridge – American pianist Anne Chamberlain, who already inspired Vietnamese audiences in 2010 and 2013, will join a concert with Vietnamese musicians at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi at 8 p.m. on August 22.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Photographer Millott Ash (Melbourne, Australia) captured Vietnam from a different perspective through panoramic photos.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Director of the Civil Aviation Authority, Lai Xuan Thanh, spoke to the Viet Nam and World Economy newspaper about measures to ensure greater flight safety in Viet Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The café market has witnessed many changes over the last few years with the appearance of foreign brands, many new street cafes, an increased presence of locally owned chains and cafes that do not sell coffee.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 70 percent of games are developed specifically for smartphones, while thousands of new games are downloaded every day. With such growth, the future is bright for the mobile game industry.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Archaeologists have uncovered scores of artefacts left by the Sa Huynh people, who lived in the central region thousands of years ago. They will soon be on display in Quang Ngai.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Kobe beef noodle, King crabs, turtles and Dong Tao chicken feet are unique and expensive dishes in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Representatives of 16 big travel agencies from Japan will take part in a fact-finding trip in Vietnam next month to seek out business prospects and work with potential local partners over measures to promote travel

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Le Dong has been a part of the nation's oil and gas industry since its inception and played a major role in its development. "I am a drop of the country's oil and gas reserves," he said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three bilingual poetry collections by Vietnamese poet Mai Van Phan were among the 10 bestselling poetry collections from Asia on Amazon.com in the middle of last month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s key athletes have demonstrated top form ahead of the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China and 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea, strengthening the country’s hopes for gold medals in the year

 VietNamNet Bridge - The magnificent elephants of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak are currently at risk of imminent extinction due to loss of habitat and illegal hunting.