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Trek to Heaven’s Gate to admire Double Mountain

VietNamNet Bridge – Tam Son Commune in Quan Ba District in the northwest province of Ha Giang is endowed with wild scenery and an endless range of stunning limestone mountains.

My Khe - one of the six most attractive beaches on the planet

 VietNamNet Bridge – The "mother nature" has granted Da Nang with pristine picturesque beaches. The Forbes voted My Khe beach in Da Nang as one of the six most attractive beaches on the planet.

Son Dong Village: Home of artisans

VietNamNet Bridge – Son Dong fine arts village in Hanoi’s outlying Hoai Duc District is known as a dynamic craft village with enduring vitality, where talented artisans breathe fresh air into their products and enthusiastically promote their brand

Vietnam’s mobile phone sales put at 5.8 million units in Q2

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam consumed 5.8 million cellphones in the second quarter, most of them smartphones, according to market research firm IDC.

Monks light up lives of nation's needy

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two inspirational Buddhists monks are travelling through central Viet Nam helping the region's poor and forgotten in a bid to share their burden.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 15/9

 BIDV to fund three power projects in Vietnam; Two firms licensed to import gold; Automobile industry facing challenges ahead; VNA check-in upgrade affects airports

FDI sector now the main engine as other pillars crumple

VietNamNet Bridge – The foreign direct investment sector is now the key driver in the local economy while other pillars, notably the local private sector, the State-owned sector and agriculture are all crumpling, said a Fulbright economist.

Enchanting Sapa through the lens of Thai photographer

 VietNamNet Bridge - During his recent visit to Vietnam, Thai photographer Anan Charoenkal had a chance to visit Sapa and shot stunning photos of this land in the ripe rice season.

HCM City restricts groundwater exploitation

 VietNamNet Bridge – Groundwater is receding by 0.5-1 metre a year in HCM City, Nguyen Van Nga, head of the city's Natural Resources and Water Division, has warned.

No ordinary journey

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the Bissky-Dziadkyk family, the four-month trip to Southeast Asia in 2008 was the beginning of a lifetime journey that so far has taken them to 16 countries,

Vietnam suffers the dull “inflation ache”

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though the consumer price index (CPI) decreased in some of the last months, Vietnam has never escaped from the inflation ache.

Stilt houses of the Phu La

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Phu La, a Tibeto-Burman language group, lives in mountainous areas of Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Son La and Dien Bien provinces in the north. Its population is nearly 11,000.

Super-cars in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tycoon in the plastic industry is believed to be the owner of the largest and most valuable collection of super-cars in Vietnam, with many cars worth a million of US dollars.

A caged bear bites two arms of 5-year-old boy

 VietNamNet Bridge – Seeing a bear in the cage in his uncle’s home, a five-year-old boy in Phu Tho moved closer to the cage to feed the bear, but his two arms were bitten by the bear.

“Running Man” ranks first in Hanoi Vertical Run

 VietNamNet Bridge – Losing a toenail in the conquest of the 72-storey building in Hanoi, the “Running Man” Vu Xuan Tien still won the top spot in the competition for amateur runners at the age of 12 to 29.

Vietnam to have 150 rice exporters by 2015

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will have at most 150 rice exporters with close connection with major production areas by 2015, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Pay-TV market: old soldiers afraid of rookies

 VietNamNet Bridge – The appearance of the new comers Viettel and FPT on the pay-TV market could be a threat to the big guys SCTV and VCTV.

Investing in university education is now in fashion

People-founded universities keep complaining that they cannot enroll students. However, more and more universities still have been established, while junior colleges have been insisting on being upgraded into universities.

Japanese bio-cafe offers green alternative to tourist dining

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three years ago, Usuda Raiko from Japan's Kawazaki City opened her own cafe and settled down for a peaceful life in Hoi An City.

Villas in Da Lat to be sold for building administrative complex

 VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities of Lam Dong province will auction and rent some state-owned villas in the city of Da Lat to raise funding for the construction of the central administration complex.