Miss University Vietnam, a contest which evaluates university students’ beauty, intelligence, self-confidence and virtue began on August 22 in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The environment cannot be allowed to be destroyed for the sake of socio-economic development,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People’s Court yesterday afternoon (Aug 23) sentenced two persons to death and six to life imprisonment for drug trafficking.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s cybersecurity company Bkav has warned people about ransomware, a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system till a sum of money is paid.

 The upcoming State visits to Brunei and Singapore by President Tran Dai Quang aim to realise the foreign policy set forth by the 12th Party Congress and deepen relations with the two ASEAN member countries.

 The Vietnam-Thailand Joint Working Group on Political and Security Cooperation (JWG) convened its eighth meeting in the central province of Thanh Hoa on August 24. 

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) of about US$14.4 billion was registered for new and existing projects in Viet Nam in the first eight months, according to new statistics.

 Viet Nam is likely to intensify scrutiny of income tax paid by foreign workers, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local officials said that five more gold miners were found dead because of landslides in Nam Xay commune of Lao Cai province, bringing the total number of dead to seven people.

VietNamNet Bridge – Some rich people in Vietnam have a special habit of collecting furniture made of rare ironwood, ebony, red sua, ngoc am ... worth billion VND.

VietNamNet Bridge - Since Vietnam heavily relies on China, a major import/export market, it has encountered difficulties as China has tightened cross-border imports and set barriers to Vietnamese farm produce. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - An Giang is located to the west of the Mekong Delta between the Tien and Hau rivers and shares a 100km border with Cambodia in the northwest. 

 Factory processing fruit for export launched in Ben Tre, Gem, gold firms look to India, Vietcombank hopes to buy HCM City's urban bonds, Vietnam plans sugarcane, rubber intercrops for higher output

 VietNamNet Bridge – Students at some high schools and junior high schools in the northern province of Bac Giang will study mathematics this year in both Vietnamese and English.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 70 players from 13 teams will participate in the National Tennis Championship that will begin tomorrow in Da Nang City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Football Federation banned midfielder Tran Chi Cong of Can Tho from playing in five matches due to his inappropriate language and threatening a referee in a V.League match on Sunday.

 Telecommunication standardization in Asia-Pacific, More new buses put into service in HCMC, Shortage of frontage roads cause traffic accidents: authority, Northern region warned of landslide

 The two foreign Vietjet pilots suspected of trafficking narcotics have been cleared of any suspicion, the carrier said in its latest press release. 

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has suggested the Government move on with a major plan to equitize State-run commercial banks, saying that the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) should go public from now to 2020.

VietNamNet Bridge - Universities have been told to become independent from the state and determine their destinies, but they have not been given the right to make decisions.

 The Prime Minister has approved a comprehensive plan for developing e-commerce in the 2016-2020 period with specific targets set, according to Decision No. 1563.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has approved development of a ‘strategy on tourism products’ project in Vietnam’ by 2025, with orientation towards 2030. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lam Dong Province has issued a temporary regulation governing adventure tourism activities,

 One Thai person was killed and 30 wounded when two bombs exploded late on Tuesday near a hotel in the southern Thai coastal town of Pattani, police said, less than two weeks after a series of unexplained blasts hit the south.

 Believe it or not, doctors in India have removed some 40 knives from the stomach of a man who had swallowed them in the past three months.