VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese women’s team won two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Team Chess Championship which wrapped up in Iran over the weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s U23 team won their second game in a row at the U23 International Championship - Vinaphone Cup 2018 by defeating U23 Oman 1-0 on Sunday at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three years after beginning a pilot programme to buy solar power at VND2,000 (8.7 US cents) per kWh generated in homes and offices, HCM City has signed up 290 consumers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts earlier this year all predicted that there would be a high number of M&A deals in the banking sector this year. However, this has not occurred.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 1,700 households in three remote communes in the mountainous province of Lai Chau are temporarily isolated due to prolonged heavy rains, 

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has engaged in a series of bilateral and multilateral meetings as part of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and related events in Singapore

Hydropower projects in the central province of Nghe An are causing problems for local people due to poor planning that has damaged the environment and led to the threat of damn breaches during the rainy season.

Vietnamese students enjoyed a successful World Invention Creativity Olympic (WICO) 2018, with three teams bringing home gold medals and one team bagging a silver medal.

 Nearly 150 elementary and junior high school students participated in the 2018 International Youth Robotic Competition, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City on August 5.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dinh Thi Bich, a 60-year-old diabetic patient from the northern province of Ninh Binh, has regular check-ups at the National Hospital of Endocrinology in Hanoi. 

 The recent 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-51) and other related meetings hosted by Singapore have secured many important outcomes, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung told the media recently.

 Hue city, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, has announced plans to restore a palace in the former royal citadel in an attempt to give visitors a glimpse at how the former kings of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) lived.

 State-owned businesses must undergo an urgent review of their assets before they can be equitised over the next two years.

 Job seekers can turn to a new smartphone app iWORK in a bid to find work. The app is also available to help those looking for staff find the right employee.

 The Mekong Delta province of An Giang is devising measures to prevent coastal erosion, which has become more serious due to climate change and socio-economic activities.

 Hello, a UK weekly magazine, has named Hanoi among seven best backpacking destinations in Asia.

 Six people have been arrested in Venezuela for involvement in an apparent assassination attempt on President Nicolás Maduro, 

VietNamNet Bridge - With stable profit margins and steady growth, the clean water sector is attractive to both domestic and foreign investors.

 Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in the past days had left six dead, five missing and two injured in the northern mountainous region by 17:00 on August 5.

 Twenty people have died after a World War Two vintage aircraft crashed into a mountainside in eastern Switzerland, 

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 Violinist Lidya Dobrevska and oboist Gordana Josifova Nedelkovska from Macedonia will perform in a concert featuring famous compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House this week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Residents in HCM City’s Binh Tan District have been forced to burn piles of uncollected waste left on Binh Long Street after companies dumped the waste in the area at night, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City administration has asked the Department of Planning and Architecture to work with agencies to propose adjustments to resettlement areas in the Thu Thiem new urban area. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Delegates from more than 300 universities and over 30 countries participated in the One Asia Convention Hanoi 2018 – Hope for the Future event in Hanoi last week.