Some workshops in Hanoi have been busy making national flags and banners to meet demand for Independence Day on September 2, as well as for Vietnamese football fans as U23 team qualified for the ASIAD semi-finals.  

 Paris-based Vietnamese model and fashion show producer Jessica Minh Anh will celebrate the seventh iteration of the Catwalk on Water fashion show on September 4.

 Artists of different nationalities and backgrounds will co-organise an event that features an interplay of literature, art and music from the East and West in Hanoi next month.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj co-chaired the 16th Meeting of the Vietnam-India Joint Committee on Economic, Commercial, Scientific, and Technological Cooperation on August 28.

 The third Indian Ocean Conference wrapped up in Hanoi on August 28 having reached an agreeable common perception of building a region of peace, stability, and prosperity.

 Vietnam and Egypt have issued a joint statement on the occasion of the State-level visit to Egypt by President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse from August 25-28 at the invitation of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. 

 The southern province of Binh Phuoc announced the Prime Minister’s decision to recognise an ancient Loc Hoa lithophone as a national treasure during a ceremony in the provincial museum on August 28.

 Vietnam and other countries at the same level of development should no longer see cheap labour as a strategy to maintain competitive edges in the market.

 Despite a volatile market that caused stocks to drop in recent months, the prospects for shares in the three largest Vietnamese petrol retailers remains positive for 2018, according to Viet Capital Securities Corp (VCSC).

 The USAID Wildlife Asia on Tuesday launched the third phase of the Chí initiative, a communication programme to help decrease consumer demand for rhino horn in Việt Nam.

 Ba Ria-Vung Tau People’s Committee on August 28 granted a certificate of investment registration for the construction of a polypropylene (PP) plant and a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) warehouse for South Korea’s Hyosung Corporation.

 Police in Long Xuyen City in the southern province of An Giang on Monday launched a criminal investigation against a babysitter who was allegedly involved in torturing three toddlers at Sac Mau Tuoi Tho nursery school.

 The Ministry of Transport on Monday requested the Railway Project Management Board strengthen oversight to ensure safety and security on the Cat Linh- Ha Dong elevated railway.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a decision on the establishment of a national committee for e-government on the basis of the national committee for application of information technology.

 Ho Chi Minh City will push ahead with solutions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, joining the nation’s efforts to realise the Paris Agreement on climate change.

 The Hanoi People’s Court on August 28 opened a trial of four former senior members of PVTEX for the charge of “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management causing serious consequences”.

 The Ho Chi Minh City-based TMA Solutions company on August 28 began the construction of the TMA creative park in Quy Nhon city of the central province of Binh Dinh, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

 The border guard force of central Quang Tri province on August 28 arrested a Lao man carrying 65.800 methamphetamine pills from Laos to Vietnam.

 Travel companies in Vietnam are working at full capacity to serve the demands of fans hoping to watch their Olympic football team play live at the ASIAD semifinal match in Indonesia on August 29.

 In the last days of August and early September, the Fansipan landscape becomes a stunning natural painting with wonderful green rice steps on terrace fields that will win the heart of any visitor. 

The Management Boards of the Cham Island Marine Protected Area (MPA) and the Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve site have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on co-operation for information exchanges, protection of biodiversity, 

 A report was recently released on the costs of administrative procedure compliance in Vietnam, known as APCI, helping to quantify the costs that businesses have to bear in order to meet existing regulations.

 “I love my motherland and expect the best things for the Republic of Korea (RoK), but as the coach of Vietnam’s Olympic team at present, it is my obligation to wholeheartedly prepare Vietnam for the upcoming semifinal,” said coach Park Hang-seo.

 Vietnam has attracted US$24.35 billion worth of FDI capital in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 4.2% over the same period in 2017, the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA), under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, has announced.

 Around 4.43 million tourists arrived in the central province of Quang Nam in the first seven months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 30.2 percent, according to the tourism sector.