Thousands of locals and tourists flocked to the ancient town of Hoi An to celebrate the 14th annual Hoi An-Japan Cultural Festival yesterday.

 World Shine-Hue International Resort, which was delayed in construction due to protests from residents, will be relocated to a new site and renamed Minh Vien-Lang Co. International Resort project.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was one of the hottest months of the year. The heat and humidity made us easily frustrated and bad tempered.

 Providing the foreign Minister, and heads of Supreme People’s Procuracy and Supreme People’s Court with bodyguards was proposed in the draft Law on Guard Force which was discussed in the 14th National Assembly Standing Commitee (NASC) session.

Vice President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations has suggested US activists call on the US Government to pay more heed to decontaminating “environmental hot spots” in Vietnam and supporting local Agent Orange/dioxin victims.

 Over 1 million primary, secondary and high school students in Ho Chi Minh City started their new academic year of 2016-2017 on August 15. 

Vietnam always give highest priority to consolidating and enhancing the time-honoured friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, President Tran Dai Quang told Vice Chairman of the Lao NA Somphan Phengkhammy.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local newspapers last week reported that Apple had been looking for investment locations in Da Nang City.

 Czech furniture distributor Global Home S.R.O. has allegedly piled up millions of US dollars in debt towards Vietnamese suppliers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite warnings and punishments, enterprises have been using sophisticated methods to ignore regulations, damaging the environment and putting rivers in the Mekong Delta at risk.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese-born Americans have gained encouraging achievements with their technology firms in the US but none of the startups have reached unicorn status, or a $1billion valuation. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Choreographer-dancer Vu Ngoc Khai recently stared in the danceNon, a performance combining contemporary dance with traditional Vietnamese and ethnic music, along with musician Ngo Hong Quang.

HCM City authorities have been seeking solutions to easing the increasing passenger volumes at the terminals of Tan Son Nhat International Airport, which is estimated to serve 31 million passengers in 2016.

 The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) group will focus on the equitisation of three power generating corporations in its restructuring plan for 2016-2020 period, according to the group’s Chairman Duong Quang Thanh. 

 Transport firms urged to fight wildlife trade, Hospital in HCM City launches hi-tech dialysis centre, Three students drown in Dak Lak reservoir, Design contest launched for banks of Han River, Hanoi Health Department launches online services

 On August 9, Hanoitourist Corporation (Hanoitourist) and Korean Global Consultant Network Co., Ltd. (GCN) signed an investment co-operation agreement on developing a five-star complex of hotels, a trade centre, and a racecourse in Hanoi.

 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will hit the market on August 19 and cost VND18.99 million (US$859).

 Vietnam Satellite Digital Television VSTV (K+) has launched a special offer for new subscribers and announced that HCM City Cable Television (HTVC) is the 6th co-distributor of 4 K+ channel.

 A forum on  Big Data Innovation Summit 2016  will take place in August 26, 2016, in HCM City 

 Standard & Poor's Global Ratings has affirmed its ratings of three large Vietnamese banks.

 A large crack has appeared in National Highway 217 in the central Thanh Hoa Province’s Muon Min Commune, forcing households living nearby to shift to ensure their safety.

 At least seven people died and four were injured, while one person was missing after torrential rains hit the northern and north-central regions over the past few days.

 Residents in Block N5 of Dong Tau apartment building in Hanoi's Thinh Liet Ward are concerned about their safety after the lobby floor partially caved in last week.

Viet Pride Hanoi 2016 Week will be held from Aug 17 to Aug 21, with film screenings, exhibition, workshops, Work with Pride, Viet Pride scholarship, PFLAG, queer disco, and the signature Viet Pride bicycle rally plus a new Pride parade. 

 This beautifully and sentimentally hand-drawn animation is a lively song about life of a unique fiction jungle tribe.