National Junior Archery Champs underway;  National youth handball tournament opens; Ho Chi Minh City tops national youth xiangqi competition;  Vietnam must to do more to preserve traditional martial arts

 Danang hosts green photo contest;  Student guides at War Remnants Museum; Seminar drafts plans for festival organisation;  Ancient tower discovered in Da Nang City

VietNamNet Bridge – Though Vietnamese social networks have attracted numerous users, they still cannot turn the great advantage into business opportunities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After Van Dien, other cemeteries like Mai Dich, Xuan Dinh, Van Phuc and Yen Ky 1 will be shut down in the next three years, because of being out of land. Hanoi will build 12 new cemeteries to serve people.

 Well-known female Japanese rapper COMA-CHI will give a performance at the CAMA ATK lounge in Hanoi on August 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Explorers have discovered a special stalactite which changes its color continuously, in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang natural heritage site of Quang Binh province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Industrial zones are destroying the environment, killing rivers and creating "cancer villages" in which many residents have become fatally ill,

A circular stipulating the procedures and conditions for establishing 100 percent foreign owned securities companies is expected to come out after September 15. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The country saw a rise in the number of foreign visitors in recent years, but there remains a lack of qualified tour guides to support the sector, according to tourism experts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “I only wish to preserve the soul of letters. All titles are meaningless to me,” said Mr. Duong Van Ngo, 82, the most senior and the last public letter-writer in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – From October, Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Transports will begin issuing new driving licenses made of PET (a type of plastic), with digitized personal information, to local drivers.

 Ha Noi introduces price stabilisation plan; Insiders blast new personal tax law’s long delay; Deflation likely to continue in second half; Seafood exports hit by economic recession; Farmers distrust domestic seed, make their own

 German-Vietnamese gymnast Marcel Nguyen has scored 91,031 to bag a silver medal in the Artistic Gymnastics men's Individual All-Around event at the London 2012 Olympics.

 The early 20th century Chinese map that confirms Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelagoes, is now on display at the Vietnam National Museum of History in Hanoi.

 Vietnam will rely on the latest advances in technology to ensure that its first nuclear power plant meets the highest possible safety standards, said deputy minister of Science and Technology Le Dinh Tien.

 Four top managers of online marketplace muaban24.vn have been arrested for alleged online trading scams and tax evasion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police of the central province of Nghe An and drug-related crime investigation police have smashed one of the biggest drug trading rings in Vietnam, which transported narcotics from Laos to Nghe An.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “Metropole Nomade” is an art-exchange project initiated by the “Metropole” group of artists in Paris, France. This project will be implemented in Asia, Europe and Latin America from 2012-2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Nguyen Viet Thang, Chairman of the Vietnam Fishery Association, said that China’s sending of 23,000 fishing boats to East Sea is the use of fishermen to invade the waters of other countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Taking abuse for the right of free speech, three bloggers set up a club to write and publish articles against the State.