The Prime Minister has approved a campaign for hosting the 18th Asian Games (ASIAD) in Vietnam in 2019.

 Viet Nam progresses at World Chess Olympiad; HCM City in lead at national taekwondo championships; Referees vie for Golden Whistle and Flag titles; Le Khac Chinh takes over from disgraced chairman Kien

VietNamNet Bridge – The preservation and development of the Tay Nguyen cultural features must respect principles of diversity, said Luong Hong Quang, deputy head of the Viet Nam Institute of Culture and Arts Studies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The dengue epidemic is expected to peak in Viet Nam in September following recent heavy rainfalls, said deputy head of the Health Ministry's Preventive Medicine Department Tran Thanh Duong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sai Gon Xuan Thanh (Sai Gon XT) won the National Cup trophy after crushing Ha Noi T&T 4-1 in the final yesterday, Aug 29, at Thong Nhat Stadium, HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Central provinces, which bear the brunt of the storms that batter Viet Nam annually, are in bad shape this year: several dykes have deteriorated, many areas have become erosion-prone, and rivers are silted.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vo Thanh Tung will be the first Vietnamese athlete competing at the London Paralympics today.

 The Venice film festival kicked off an art house dominated line-up on Wednesday with a thriller by Mira Nair about a Pakistani man torn between East and West after the September 11 attacks.

 German leader Angela Merkel was due to hold top-level talks Thursday on her second visit to China this year, with Europe's debt crisis taking centre stage as it begins to drag on the two global powers.

The idea to loosen the requirements enterprises must have to be able to import cars has been facing the strong opposition from the enterprises--which have spent much investment money to satisfy the requirements.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said he wants Vietnam and Australia to make greater efforts to lift their cooperative ties to a new height for peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region.

 Ambassador committed to boosting EU-Vietnam cooperation; Hanoi, Vientiane seek further judicial cooperation; August revolution, National Day marked abroad; VN diplomats to Kazakhstan, Bangladesh present credentials

Citigroup said Wednesday it had agreed to pay $590 million to settle a suit by investors who accused the bank of misleading them on its subprime mortgage-based security losses in 2007-2008.

In the last 10 years, Vietnam witnessed the wave of localizing the world’s products to provide to Vietnamese clients. Nowadays, it is entering a new development stage, when Vietnamese service providers follow their own ways.

 Vietnam will gradually eliminate the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags in daily life, with an aim to reduce by 40% the number of plastic bags used at supermarkets and shopping malls by 2015.

 While the publishing of textbooks is monopolised by the Education Publishing House, the reference books market is a lucrative market for many publishing companies.

The idea of building a museum of General Vo Nguyen Giap was introduced at a meeting held by the Museum of History and the Association of Historical Science, on the occasion of General Vo Nguyen Giap’s birthday (August 25).

While MOLISA believes that raising the minimum wage is a must, businesses fear that the production costs would be higher, while laborers worry that their actual income would go down.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Cham tower foundation found in Phong Le Village in March is one of the biggest such structures found in Viet Nam,

…is the big worry about the market decline not only of fledgling air carriers like Air Mekong or Vietjet Air, but also of the national air flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, which is holding more than 70 percent of the market share.