Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (VNPT) on Thursday launched a satellite mobile service known as VinaPhone-S.

VietNamNet Bridge - Yen Tu mountain in Quang Ninh province is the home to 230 xich tung (red pine) treeshundreds of years old but half of them are nearly dead due to severe disease. Local authorities are looking for measures to save the rare trees.

 A week on elephant protection was launched in Nong Son district, the central province of Quang Nam on August 3 with myriad activities.

VietNamNet Bridge – The AAG submarine cable system connecting South East Asia and the United States broke on August 2, seriously affecting Internet connection in Vietnam. 

The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has set up a Management Board of Lang Biang World Biosphere Reserve (Lang Biang BR) to boost the sustainable development of the site.

 Spokesperson for the Government Mai Tien Dung has stated that investment projects failing to meet environmental protection standards will not be licensed.

The police in the central province of Ha Tinh on August 2 decided to start criminal proceedings against violations of the regulations on hazardous waste management in Ky Anh town.

VietNamNet Bridge - After more than half a year of operation, Vietnam’s first semi-wildlife zoo in Vietnam Vinpearl Safari Phu Quoc has welcomed the F1 generation of many species of rare animals in the world.

The environment police forces of Dong Nai on July 31 caught two tractor trucks carrying thousands of liters of hazardous waste, identified as belonging to a company located in the Formosa industrial zone.

The waste mud illegally dumped in Ky Anh town of the central province of Ha Tinh is a mixture of industrial and hazardous waste, and both its owner, Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd, and the dumper must bear responsibility.

 FPT Corporation has been selected as the main investor of Myanmars national financial switching system.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nokia will return to the global market, including Vietnam later this year with two new phone models, according to distributor FPT Trading.

A working group led by the chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Science, Technology and Environment has arrived in Ha Tinh to supervise the implementation of the law on environmental protection on Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Company.

 Physicists from 13 countries worldwide gathered at a seminar on physics which kicked off in the central province of Binh Dinh on August 1.

 Vietnam had more than 14 million hectares of forest as of December 21, 2015, including over 10.1 million hectares of natural forest and nearly 3.9 million hectares of planted forest.

The broken chemical pipe system incident at Vinacomin-Dak Nong Aluminium Company’s Nhan Co alumina plant in the Central Highland’s province of Dak Nong has raised concerns about environmental pollution in the region.

The government has released the report evaluating the damages caused by Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co., Ltd, the culprit behind the mass dying of fish in the four central coastal provinces in April this year.

HCM City has implemented many planning programs with tens of billions of U.S. dollar and yielded infrastructures in the end while a huge profit from land price difference has run into other pockets.

VietNamNet Bridge - The red-crowned crane - the icon of Vietnam’s Tram Chim National Park - now stands at the brink of extinction.

 In-app advertising has been overtaking the mobile web channel in Vietnam, with the click-through rate on apps found to be 1.5 times as high as the mobile web click-through rate.