Fuel prices up again after straight drops; Vietnam ranked 3rd in top non-BRIC emerging markets; SMEs’ competitiveness remains low; VN gaming industry to earn $220.9 million in 2012; US aims to be No1 investor in Vietnam

Investor psychology improved over the course of last week, helping lift trading values and volumes on both of the nation's stock exchanges.

The Ministry of Construction has sought clearance to set up a clinker and cement exporters association hoping that among other benefits, it would improve co-operation within the industry and ensure there is no undercutting.

Art exchange honours war veterans; Phan Thuan An honored for protecting national sovereignty;  Danish gymnastics troupe to tour nation; Master painter Nguyen Phan Chanh 120th birthday honoured

The Prime Minister has approved an urgent action plan through 2020 to save the elephant population, which are on the brink of extinction in Vietnam.

The unmanned Japanese spacecraft HTV-3 left the Tanegashima Space Centre on July 21, bringing five small satellites, including Vietnam’s F-1, into orbit.

Driver arrested after running into restaurant; A restaurant for poor people in Hanoi; HCM City aims to improve land management; Cabby accused of fleecing foreigner 60 times

VietNamNet Bridge – No need to have deep informatics knowledge and no need to have big initial investment capital, one still can earn tens of millions of dong by providing content on the websites for mobile phones.

VietNamNet Bridge – A video clip showing a teacher in Thai Nguyen province torturing students has been forwarded among the Internet users’ community, which has stirred up the public.

VietNamNet Bridge – Being recognized as a new world natural wonder in April 2012, the Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh province is being harmed by daily and industrial waste.

VietNamNet Bridge - 21 lacquer paintings depicting old cultural features, guns and bullets, and environmental issues by Vo Xuan Huy are on display in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two lecturers of the National Music Institute, who are also famous singers,  have been temporarily banned from the stage after they quit a special show to celebrate Vietnam-Laos friendship on July 18 in Vientiane, Laos.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese contestant Hoang My did not enter the top 23 of the Talent Audition competition of the Miss World 2012 pageant on July 21.

VietNamNet Bridge - The winner of the Miss Sports 2012 pageant will represent Vietnam at the Miss Supranational 2012, which will take place in Poland this August.

VietNamNet Bridge – The losses of the Vietnam Shipping Lines Group (Vinalines) in the first half of 2012 is more than VND1.4 trillion ($70 million), 3.5 times higher than the total losses in 2011

VietNamNet Bridge – An increasingly skewed sex ratio, a decline in the use of contraceptives, and a sudden baby boom in the first five months all add up to a gloomy picture for family planning authorities.

VietNamNet Bridge – Visitors are surprised when Da nang beach is introduced on websites of some local travel companies as “China Beach.” The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) said that this is unacceptable mistake.

VietNamNet Bridge – Pollution was spreading in the Dong Nai River Basin, the main source of water for 16 million people living in the area, including HCM City,

VietNamNet Bridge – On the afternoon of July 22, 4,000 young people arranged themselves into the shape of a drop of blood outside the national stadium in Hanoi, at a blood donation festival.

VietNamNet Bridge – Images of the signing of the historic Paris Peace Accords in 1973 will be recreated on a large mosaic mural in the convention hall of the Paris suburb of Choisy le Roi, as a gift of the Ha Noi People's Committee