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.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Also with cold weather, pine forests and mansions nestled in the morning dew, Mang Den is like the second Da Lat city in the majestic forest and mountain of Central Highlands.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Suspected as sensitive places which are the home to prostitutes, drug addicts and gangsters, a series of large discotheques in Saigon have been checked.

 FLC buy-out hastens Hanoi’s Alaska Garden City; Forex rates to remain stable; Viettel seeks equal hi-tech incentives; Mining, new products boost Masan Q2 profits

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many travel firms have kept tour prices unchanged while others are offering big discounts of 30-35 per cent for the upcoming National Holiday early next month (September 2).

VietNamNet Bridge – Customs officers will have additional powers to chase smugglers suspected of transporting goods illegally, under a draft revision of the Customs Law.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Investors cheered good business results of large-cap companies which helped boost shares on both national stock exchanges last week. This uptrend is expected to advance into this week's trading.

 Project adds vital nutrients to daily foods; Five injured in level crossing crash; Quang Nam doctors make baby mistake; Capital told to build bus stations

 Health authorities in the U.S. state of Texas have issued a measles alert due to a sharp increase of cases this year.

 VietNamNet Bridgez – People's Artist Bach Diep, one of Viet Nam's first female film directors of Revolutionary Cinema, died of cancer on Saturday. She was 84 years old.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Japanese team has become the ABU Robocon champions. Vietnam 1 has won second prize while Vietnam 2 and Indonesia have shared third prize.