The Vietnamese government continues to publicise the portfolio of investment assets to be restructured. This time, it laid out the detailed list of state-owned enterprises marked for divestment during the 2017-2020 period. 

A conference took place in Thua Thien – Hue on August 31 to discuss the protection and resilience of the marine ecosystem in the waters in the four central regions that suffered from mass fish deaths last year.

 The total State budget collection hit upwards $27 billion in the first eight months this year, meeting 64.4 percent of the yearly estimate and rising by 10.8 percent annually.

 Many works open to traffic in HCMC, HCMC calls for private investors to remove houses along canals, Da Nang runs pilot safe food management program, Continuous activities held to mark National Day

Teaching and learning a foreign language is not easy. If the teachers themselves began learning the language late in their lives, and if they learnt it from non-native speakers, the task becomes even more difficult.

The rupture of two undersea cable lines Asia-America Gateway (AAG) and Intra-Asia (IA) in waters off Hong Kong’s coast on August 28 has insignificant impacts on Internet traffic in Vietnam, said domestic Internet service providers.

The 22nd fine arts exhibition in the Mekong Delta region featuring 200 art works of 181 artists has opened in Hau Giang Province.

 The fireworks display in Ho Chi Minh City will be organized at the Dam Sen Park in District 11 on the National Day (September 2).

 The Ministry of Education and Training has sent its document to public facilities of higher education and vocational training institutions, asking them to collect tuition fee of the academic year 2017-2018 in accordance with the law.

Phan Dang Nhat Minh of Hai Lang High School in Quang Tri won the championship at the 17th season of the competition The Road to Olympia Peak in Hanoi on August 27.

 Sexual imbalance at birth is increasing and is currently at a serious level in Vietnam, with the sex ratio at birth (boys per 100 girls) remaining quite high, stated a report on population and family planning, released on August 29.

 There are pay gaps among application groups, programming languages, and scope of work, according to a report from VietnamWorks and TopITworks on Salary in Information Technology in mid-2017.

 Shrinking and degrading wild elephant habitats in Dak Lak have led to a shortage of food and more conflicts between wild and domestic animals, according to Director of the Dak Lak Elephant Conservation Centre.

 Several provinces held ceremonies on August 31 to honour local athletes who made outstanding performance when competing at the recently-concluded 29th Southeast Asia (SEA) Games in Malaysia. 

 Former chairman and director of VN Pharma JS Company Nguyen Minh Hung who has been sentenced 12 years in prison in the cancer medicine scam said that brother-in-law of Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien works for the company. 

 Police in District 2 in HCM City are investigating into complaints by residents in Thao Dien Ward that their pets have suffered from mass poisoning. 

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed to remove as much as 3,000 unnecessary business conditions that cause extra costs for many businesses.

 A tropical depression intensified into the eighth storm in the East Sea today (August 31), according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ministries have been increasingly hearing calls for help from many industries.

 Administrative procedures in many ministries, sectors and localities remain complex, causing difficulties for enterprises, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the monthly Government meeting on Wednesday.

 A concert for young people will include 17 Vietnamese singers, rappers, DJs, and music producers at the Hoa Lư Stadium on September 15.

 Tran Quoc Huy, known as TuypTran, will show his latest paintings in a solo exhibition opening at Dia Projects today.

Dutch DJ and producer Paul Hazendonk, owner of renowned Manual Music Label, will perform at the Lighthouse on September 16.

Novartis AG won highly anticipated U.S. approval for the first of a new type of potent gene-modifying immunotherapy for leukemia, a $475,000 treatment that marks the start of a potential new treatment paradigm

The International Travel Expo HCM City returns for the 13th time as the most established annual international travel trade event in the Mekong sub-region from September 7 to 9 at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Centre.