Viet Nam continued to lead the ASEAN Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rankings in August, despite a slower improvement in its goods-producing sector, Nikkei’s IHS Markit reported on Tuesday.

 Air pollution in HCM City caused by vehicles has become even more serious than the level of pollution emitted by industrial zones, environmental experts say.

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 Since its inception, the Saigon Hi-Tech Park has become an incubator for innovation and a centre for technology transfer in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern region.

 Da Nang city in central Vietnam is the most popular summer vacation destination of tourists from the Republic of Korea this year, a shift from last year’s preference for Japanese cities.

The show, Tam Hon Lang Viet or “the soul of the Vietnamese countryside”, vividly depicts the everyday activities of countryside people in the north, from early morning flute sounds to the noisiness of a rural evening marketplace.  

 VKFrontier Co., a cosmetics company of the Republic of Korea, has announced its a sponsor package worth 12,000 USD for Vietnamese athletes who will compete at the upcoming 2018 Asian Para Games in Indonesia, which begin in October.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition by Vietnamese surrealist artists will take place on Thursday in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a song performed by saxophonists Quyen Van Minh, Quyen Thien Dac and Tran Manh Tuan, diva Thanh Lam sings: “When you send your love to the soil, you will have trees weighed down with fruits”. 

 The northern coastal province of Quang Ninh has taken measures to improve the quality of the fleet of tourist ships operating on Ha Long Bay – a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Site.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Offroad Cup is scheduled to be held on September 29 and 30 with the participation of 80 teams.

 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.