VietNamNet Bridge - After discovering a 30kg seal in his fishing nets, about 3 km from Da Nang’s shore, a fisherman asked the local authorities for VND3 million ($150) of compensation for the torn net and for bringing the animal to shore.

VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 72 charter flights will be taking Russian tourists to Vietnam each month from October 20 to next April under the joint arrangement between Russia-based Pegas Touristik Co. and Anh Duong Co.

 VietNamNet Bridge - At midnight, Vietnamese police discovered in the luggage of a Nigerian man, dozens of plastic bags containing white crystalline solids, which was then determined as narcotics, totaling 3.2kg.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many films that made the public boo and are classified as "catastrophic" and "super bullshit" are eager to compete for the Gold Lotus award at the National Film Festival this October, in Ha Long City, Quang Ninh.

 The supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, has been arrested in Cairo, Egyptian officials said on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People's Supreme Court on Friday, Aug 16, announced reduced sentences for Dinh Nguyen Kha and Nguyen Phuong Uyen who had "conducted propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam".

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam turns out to be not a good land for many bank foreign CEOs. Many of them have to leave after a short time in Vietnam, ceding their positions to Vietnamese.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Canadian rock band ‘Japandroids’ will arrive in Ho Chi Minh City for a performance at the Cargo Bar on August 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Traffic deaths in the first seventh months of 2013 rose by 4.86 percent year-on-year, according to statistics released by the National Committee for Traffic Safety.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Employees in the tourism industry certified by the Tourism Certification Board in any one of the ten ASEAN members will be recognized by the others and thus able to find jobs in the region from 2015

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Mekong Delta region is trailing far behind the rest of the country in development of education, medicine and science, even though it is considered the richest rice basket of Asia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Duong Anh Vu defeated teammate Ngo Dinh Nai 40-35, after 27 turns in the all HCM City final at the Binh Duong Province International 3-cushion Billiards Open on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly (NA) chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung has turned down a proposal on a draft Government decree on casinos as submitted by the NA Finance-Budget Committee earlier.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has the highest number of website server attacks in the world (394), leaving Russia (34 servers attacked) and India (19) far behind.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nghe An and Ha Tinh central provinces hosted a ceremony on August 17 to receive  the national cultural heritage certificate for vi giam folk singing and launch the second vi giam folk singing festival.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The northern province of Nam Dinh is working on a dossier of the local Phu Day festival with a view to seeking recognition of its as part of the national intangible culture heritage.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Phu Quoc, a popular tourism destination, is being primed to become a major development hub with a huge fillip in status as a centrally managed administrative and special economic zone by 2020.

Waterfalls, forests, rivers and mountains are the pride of locals in the Central Highlands region. For people in Daklak, along with Buon Don Tourist Village, Trung Nguyen Coffee, Draysap and Trinh Nu waterfalls, Lak Lake is the pride of the province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese scientists have voiced their deep concern about the fate of the Mekong Delta and the Vietnamese rice farming in the context of the hydropower plant boom.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has achieved significant progress in improving people's living standards, but not in rural areas, a study by the Central Institute for Economic Management has found.