VietNamNet Bridge – It's been a week since the Viet Nam real-time bitcoin exchange was launched, but the public is yet to see the authorities take action against crypto-currencies as they had promised.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has plans to look for approval from authorities to own 20% of mobile carrier MobiFone when the latter goes public.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thirty-three artworks by Japanese artists Makoto Aoki, Hiroko Aoki, Toshiro Yamaguchi, Yumiko Nomiyama, Kinya Nakatami and Aki Miwa are on display together with 42 pieces by late Vietnamese artist Tran Trung Tin

 VietNamNet Bridge – A top family welfare official on July 23 urged the HCM City Population and Family Planning Division to soon submit plans for expanding a project on community-based healthcare for seniors to the HCM City People's Council

Travel agencies have re-started chartered flights to transport travelers from China to the central coast city of Danang after months of interruption due to tensions in the East Sea sparked by China’s illegal deployment of a giant oil rig

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People's Committee has asked relevant departments to review the progress of social housing projects and report on when the projects will be completed, before July 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 200 children from Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos are expected to attend a special exchange programme to be held from July 28 to August 1 in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bitexco Group has proposed a plan to the Quang Ninh People's Committee to manage tourism activities in the Ha Long Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay for 50 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A toilet-shaped coffee shop owned by a young girl in Hanoi has attracted customers with its odd style. Each month, the shop earns tens of thousands of dollars of revenue.

 Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s aviation sector needs a breakthrough in human resources, especially when airlines are expanding their fleets, launching new routes and preparing for their initial public offerings (IPO).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first-ever class in xam (ancient folk songs performed by blind beggars) for primary and junior high school students has opened in the northern province of Ninh Binh's Yen Mo District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will stop using all types of machinery and equipment containing poluchlorinated biphenyl, one of the persistent organic pollutants, by 2020 and safely dispose the substance by 2028.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City officials are concerned that due to longer and more confused procedures, a large number of drug addicts will be unable to enter mandatory treatment centres.

 Algeria's national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso.

 The US has charged six men in connection with a scam that defrauded eBay's Stubhub of about $1m (£587,000).

VietNamNet Bridge –Viet Nam hopes to control environmental pollution at the source, deputy director general of the Viet Nam Environment Administration, Tran The Loan, told the Thoi bao Kinh te Newspaper

 VietNamNet Bridge – Although only one merger & acquisition (M&A) deal was announced in the first few months of the year, more are expected in the second half of the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 39 grottoes with total length of 17 kilometers have been newly discovered in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Quang Binh Province, promising more destinations for adventurous tourists to the province to conquer.

 Two guesthouses in Sam Son fined for insulting travellers; Vietnamese visitors to Singapore record double-digit growth in Q1; Thanh Hoa to host National Tourism Year 2015; Can Tho asks VietJetAir to ensure quality of new air route