VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese film about arranged marriage and forbidden love will have its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Friday.

 Many provinces and cities have licensed projects worth billions of US dollars through their investment forums this year. But experts said the key issue remains how to push these projects from the planning to the action stage.

 Private higher education plays an important role in promoting human resource quality, however, policies to develop private universities still face obstacles. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2018-19 schoolyear already started on Wednesday across the country, but a shortage of textbooks for the first, sixth and tenth grades is still reported in some major cities.

The Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) and Japan’s Industrial Science and Technology and Environment Bureau signed an agreement on September 4 to promote cooperation in human resources development in the field of pollution control in Vietnam.

 HDBank has been chosen as the bank to disburse World Bank and Asian Development Bank loans worth a total of US$250 million to two projects.

 After keeping deposit interest rates unchanged for many months, three State-owned banks with the largest share of deposits have begun to follow in the footsteps of their private competitors and hiked rates recently.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The People’s Procuracy of northern Phu Tho Province said VND372 billion ($15.9 million) that three mobile operators had earned from the recent massive online gambling ring would be confiscated.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People’s Committee has instructed Hoai Duc District authorities to investigate reports that a local primary school is collecting large sums as extra fees, causing outrage among parents.

 Scandal-hit US blood-testing start-up Theranos is to formally dissolve, the firm's chief executive David Taylor has told shareholders in an email.

 Korean guitar prodigy Jung Sung-ha will perform acoustic fingerstyle live in Vietnam this month.

 Viet Nam’s mechanical engineering industry is lagging far behind the world, meaning the Government and businesses must renovate to keep up with the fast-moving technological revolution.

 Japan's northern island of Hokkaido has been hit by a powerful earthquake, triggering landslides that engulfed houses.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A woman delivered a baby on north-south train SE6 going from Sai Gon to Hanoi early in the morning on Wednesday with assistance from on-board railway staff.

Viet Nam has the potential to boost its exports of star anise and cinnamon, but needs supportive policies from the Government, the Lang Son Star Anise Association has said.

The depreciation of the Chinese yuan against the dollar has raised concerns that Vietnam’s goods will become less competitive in comparison with Chinese goods if Vietnam does not devalue its currency.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong is paying an official visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin from September 5-8.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Having visited Vietnam as a tourist, Ando Saeko, a Japanese woman spent a month in HCM City before travelling to Hanoi to explore Vietnamese culture.

 National Day observed in Thailand, Germany, Guatemala President praises Vietnam’s role in Asia-Pacific, Top legislator stresses greater autonomy for universities, Deputy PM meets WEF ASEAN 2018 sponsors

 A Korean contemporary fine art exhibition named “Colors of Korea” is underway at the Korean Cultural Centre in Hanoi until September 7.

 China, one of the biggest markets for Vietnam’s agro-fisheries products, has increasing demand, but its quality requirements for products are also rising.

 Vietnamese websites were hit by more than 6,500 cyber security attacks – all either deface, malware or phishing attacks – in the first eight months of 2018.

 The World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) is one of the largest multilateral diplomatic events hosted by Vietnam this year, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.

Vietnamese architecture company VTN Architects has just received two prizes for two buildings in HCM City and Hanoi at the International Architecture Awards 2018 (IAA) hosted by the Chicago Design Museum.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Night of Film Music will be held at 8pm on September 29-30 at the Opera House at 7 Lam Son Square in HCM City’s District 1.