The number of foreign tourists who visited Viet Nam reached 4.38 million in the first eight months of this year, up 9.4 per cent against the same period last year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The second conference for overseas Vietnamese (OV) will be held in HCM City from September 26-29.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith MP will pay an official visit to Vietnam from 29 to 30 August 2012, says the Australian Embassy in Vietnam.

 Vietnam attracted US$8.47 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) during the first eight months of 2012, equal to 66.1 percent of the previous year’s figure.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Future Shorts Autumn 2012 will take place in Hanoi on August 31, featuring the most exciting short films from around the world.

Air taxi was first served in Vietnam many years ago, but it has only become popular over the last year.

U.S. media giant Oprah Winfrey was named on Monday by Forbes Magazine as the highest-paid celebrity, topping the list of America's most powerful stars for four years in a row.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To serve people during the National Day holiday (September 2), HCM City will increase the number of bus trips for 21 routes by over 1,000 during this occasion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is willing to cooperate with Singapore in extradition, judicial assistance, and training of law enforcement officers amidst an increasingly complicated situation in the region.

 Located 16 kilometers from Bao Loc city, through a wide tea farming area is the Dambri Waterfall, the most famous ecotourism site in Bao Loc.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsavad Lengsavath in Hanoi on August 27.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (AEM 44) kicked off in Siem Reap city, Cambodia on August 27.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Relentless river-bank erosion in many places in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have damaged property and disrupted people's lives, local reports say.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Canada’s International Trade Minister Ed Fast will make a tour of four Southeast Asians from Aug 27-Sep 3 boost trade relations with the region.

It’s necessary to prohibit to email compressed files or the compressed files comprising “.exe” files inside in order to minimize the risks of having email system hacked – Director of VNCERT Vu Quoc Khanh has suggested.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The annual concert of VietNamNet Newspaper “Things Everlasting” will take place on the afternoon of September 2 (National Day) at the Hanoi Opera House, as usual.

VietNamNet Bridge – An awards ceremony to honor students who stood first in their graduation examination in universities and colleges this year was organized at the Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam University in Hanoi on August 28.

Vietnamese parents do not attend the lessons at the schools, but in fact, they also have to learn hard to become the fellow-travelers of their children, who go to the first grade.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A drug trader was shot to dead by police in the northern province of Hoa Binh on August 26, when he tried to hold out.