VietNamNet Bridge – Many of the 12 commercial banks licensed to hold properties in trust still have not begun providing services. Meanwhile, the banks willing to provide the services are not allowed to do this.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Professors Sheldon Glashow and David Gross as Nobel prize winners will host talks in two leading universities based in HCMC on August 10.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mobile network operators have expressed their worries about the information security problems OTT (over the top content) app users may have. But how high is the risk?

 VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has issued an exhibition plan with the theme "Hoang Sa, Truong Sa of Vietnam - The Historical Evidence."

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese troupes, Arabesque from Ho Chi Minh City and Tri Minh’s Quartet from Hanoi, have been invited to perform at the prestigious Center StageSM programme in the US in 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Computer Emergency Respond Team VNCERT has voiced its concern about the relevant units’ weak capability of responding to the large scale DDoS attacks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has given its approval to the importing of frozen "white organs" such as rectums, chicken crops and penises.

 Almost half of Americans say they eat fast food at least weekly, although more than seven in ten Americans think fast food not good, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday.

Ma Phi Leng Pass in Ha Giang province, O Quy Ho Pass in Lao Cai, Ma Phuc in Cao Bang or Khau Pha in Yen Bai are the legendary passes of backpackers, which have spectacular sceneries and are very dangerous during days with mist.

General Director Nguyen Huu Thuy told Bloomberg that VAMC will give priority to purchase debts of the banks with the highest bad debt ratios and the debts that are guaranteed by real estate. The first transactions will be done in the next two weeks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three students in the central city of Da Nang have been fined VND10 million (US$481) each and four others issued warnings, for slandering another student on Facebook.

 PVEP welcomes first oil stream from project in Malaysia; PetroVietnam revenue falls 4 percent; Footwear, handbag production jumps on strong Japanese orders; Firms favour HCM City Stock Exchange

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign Direct investment (FDI) projects that have expired but not yet re-registered, will be revoked after February 1st next year, according to a newly issued directive from the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Facing the German rival of nearly 2m high – Dieter Domke who ranks 64th in the world, Tien Minh had 2-0 win to enter the third round of the BWF World Championships 2013 in China today, August 7.

 Bottlenose dolphins can remember each other's signature whistles for more than 20 years, a study said Wednesday -- the longest social memory ever observed in an animal.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi To Tram of HCM City is worried after hearing that dairy products made using whey protein from New Zealand could be tainted with botulinum, the bacterium that causes potentially fatal botulism.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A newly born baby classified as stillborn was found to be still breathing when taken home for burial.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 26,000 quails infected with the avian flu virus of the H5N1 type have been destroyed in Tien Giang Province in the past month, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 VNA, PRD agree to further cooperation; Thailand’s Former Deputy PM honoured with Friendship Order; Vietnam, South Africa look to foster ties; Ambassador calls for US governors’ support for TPP

 VietNamNet Bridge - On Wednesday the Performing Arts Agency asked the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of 63 provinces and cities to not grant performing licenses to an “online star” known as “Ba Tung”, even at bars.