Modern life and technology have brought many comforts to human kind. However, for many people, simple and ordinary toys like bamboo dragonflies still hold some luster. 

 Last weekend, a Facebook rant by the mother of a 15-year-old boy against the way he was treated by the police aroused a lot of sympathy and condemnation.

In the southeast region, a curious phenomenon of foreign direct investment firms ‘recommending’ long-time employees to resign has cropped up. In return, these employees receive a hefty one-time payment.

Vietnamese Women’s Grandmaster Vo Thi Kim Phung, 24, has etched her name in the Asian Continental Chess Championships in China and Asian Zone 3.3 Chess Championship in the Philippines.

VietNamNet Bridge - Binh Son Refining & Petrochemical (BSR) is seeking a $1.26 billion government-guaranteed loan out of the total $1.8 billion needed to upgrade the Dung Quat Oil Refinery. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign investors are planning to make electric cars in Vietnam, but the infrastructure for electric car development is poor, with no charge stations.

If 300-400 more small- and medium-sized hydropower plants are built, the total capacity would be 3,000-4,000 MW, or 15 billion kwh of electricity, according to the VN Environment Administration.

VietNamNet Bridge - The PM’s economic advisory group which was established under a PM’s decision includes 14 members, headed by Dr Vu Viet Ngoan, former chair of the National Finance Supervisory Council.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thai, Japanese and Danish investors are earning trillions of dong from the shares of profitable Vietnamese enterprises they are holding.

 This year’s natural disasters in Viet Nam have caused much severer consequences than the first seven months of 2016.

 The SEA Games 29 women’s football program has released its 2017 schedule for Vietnam, which includes opponents from four different teams as follows:

 The organisers of SEA Games 29 have received 100 million MR (around $23.33 million) from over 300 sponsors, Malaysian Minister of Youths and Sports Khairy Jamaluddin said on August 4.

 The International Tennis Federation (ITF) Annual General Meeting 2017, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City from August 1-4, focused on sketching out the ITF strategic vision towards 2024.

Trinh Xuan Thanh, former general director of PetroVietnam Construction Corporation made his first public appearance in the prime-time evening news program broadcast on Thursday by VTV.

 Vietnamese students excellently grabbed one gold and two bronze medals at the 29th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2017) in Tehran, Iran yesterday. 

Associate Professor Nguyen Minh Due, chairman of the Viet Nam Energy Science Council speaks to Tuoi tre (Youth) newspaper about the need to develop renewable energy in Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge - The government’s threat to dismiss CEOs of public companies which deliberately delay share listing is expected to contribute to a ‘whirlwind’ of shares offered in the last six months of the year.

Dr Nguyen Quan, former Minister of Science and Technology, speaks to the newspaper Ha Noi Moi (New Ha Noi) about the role played by venture capital funds in start-up development.

Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan is an expert in the martial art of Aikido. For more than a decade she has held classes for disabled kids in HCM City, bringing hope and friendship to often lonely youngsters. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Planning and Invetsment (MPI) has proposed slashing the export tariff to save cement manufacturers facing million tons of cement in stock.