VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communication on Wednesday issued a licence to FPT Telecoms to provide a paid TV service in Viet Nam, despite strong opposition from the Viet Nam Pay Television Association.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Northeastern Quang Ninh Province's People's Committee has decided to set up a steering board to accelerate investment procedures for a US$2 billion hi-tech park and urban township.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of excellent students, who got 27/30 marks from the university entrance exams, or 9/10 mark for every exam subject, have failed the exams to the Hanoi Medical University.

 A roadmap was announced Thursday to lift capital controls in force since March but without a clear timeline for when they will be scrapped, as the EU state battles its economic crisis.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Leading South Korean company, Sportizen, has pitched to co-operate with Viet Nam's Becamex Binh Duong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in the southern province of Binh Duong yesterday, August 7, announced the discovery of a large-scale drug trafficking ring.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese artefact collector Shoichiro Wada died on July 29. Since then, the museum he built in HCM City, Huyen Thoai Cham (Champa Myth), has not been open to the public.

 Drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day may help older people keep their brains healthy, a U.S. study said Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Receiving his mother's portrait from an Australian war veteran, 84-year-old Le Sang from Da Nang City had tears welling up in his eyes as if he had just seen his mother, Phan Thi Dien, in the flesh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 60 illustrations from a newly-released picture book titled Mot Ngay Cua Bo (One Day of Daddy) went on display on Tuesday in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese coffee market is large enough not only for the strong brands such as Starbucks, Trung Nguyen or Highlands. A lot of small cafes have been living well, while more and more new take-away cafés have opened.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 80 travel agencies, hotels and transport companies have come together in an effort to boost tourism to the central coastal city of Da Nang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The European championship 2013 brought Hoang Thanh Trang with 26 Elo points, helping her to be closer to the peak of Elo 2500 in her professional chess career.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Under amendments to a draft decree on rice-export companies (Decree 109), Viet Nam would allow no more than 150 rice-export firms to operate.

VietNamNet Bridge – Summer time, when children have more time to relax, is when many parents think about how to raise their children's cultural life. Reading books is a common choice, but it is not easy to find the valuable books

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese scientists are implementing a scientific research work on the relations between a wild bull and cows to create hybrid calves.

 VietNamNet Bridge – New regulations on re-registration of foreign-funded enterprises, special financial supervision, retail sales of tobacco, preferential customs treatment among others will take effect in August.

 Vietnam ships over 4 million tonnes of rice; Foreign investors keen on new localities; Vietnamese honey gets export permission to EU; State bank raises price of US dollar

 VietNamNet Bridge – The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will be able to acquire stakes in those banks kept under special control when Decision 48/2013/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister takes effect on September 20.

VietNamNet Bridge – 13-year-old player Nguyen Hong Son from the Promotion Fund for Vietnamese Football Talents has been selected by Serbian coach Bora Milutinovic to train in Qatar’s Sports Aspire,