VietNamNet Bridge – Over the past 6 months, a group of deaf and mute people have staged performance on Nguyen Hue walking street in district 1, Ho Chi Minh City. At about 7 pm every day, they place their musical instruments and loudspeakers

 Local authorities in Can Tho City are being criticised for damaging handrails of seven of eight bridges in two hamlets so cars can get through.

Taiwan’s footwear giants are looking at Vietnam as an attractive stop-off point to open new manufacturing plants. 

The minimum wage will increase by 7.3 per cent in 2017, a National Wage Council meeting on August 2 in northern Vinh Phuc province has decided.

Hanoi targets welcoming 30 million tourists by 2020, including 5.7 million international arrivals, for an annual increase of 8 to 10 percent, according to Resolution No. 6 on developing the capital’s tourism in the 2016-2020 period.

The Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment has released a list of real estate projects in which the property has been mortgaged with banks as at July 29.

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment’s recent release of a list of 77 housing projects mortgaged at local banks was met by divergent sentiments in the business community.

VietNamNet Bridge – The AAG submarine cable system connecting South East Asia and the United States broke on August 2, seriously affecting Internet connection in Vietnam. 

Tropical storm Nida, the second of its kind in 2016, is forecast to bring heavy rain in the north of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in the northern province of Phu Tho are investigating allegations that a private company has been transporting sulfur through residential areas without proper licensing and conditions.

The hack on Vietnam Airlines’ website, Formosa’s illegal dumping of waste and preferential loans from China loans for highway building were hot topics at the Government’s regular press conference on August 2.

 Spain's Rafael Nadal has confirmed he will compete in all three tennis events at the Rio Olympics despite being not at his best after being sidelined with a wrist injury since May.

VietNamNet Bridge - By contributing capital to enterprises and projects, and holding stakes, though in very small amounts, Chinese investors can hold land in Vietnam.

 The central city of Da Nang is tightening controls on the publication and distribution of tourism documents and leaflets with maps showing a local coastal area named “China Beach”.

 Vietnam and the United Kingdom have enjoyed sound cooperation in past years, Senior Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army said during a reception for UK Ambassador to Vietnam Giles Lever.

Vietnam and India held their 8th political consultation session and 5th deputy foreign ministerial strategic dialogue in New Delhi on August 2.

 Nearly 120,000 units of digital currency bitcoin worth about US$72 million was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong, making it the second-biggest security breach ever of such an exchange.

 World stocks fell for a third straight day on Wednesday, depressed by growing nervousness surrounding central bank policy and the recent spike in world bond yields,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam set up a rematch with Thailand in the final of the Southeast Asian Women’s Football Championship, defeating hosts Myanmar 5-4 in the penalty shootout yesterday (Aug 2) in Mandalay City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The national beach football team gathered yesterday (Aug 2) in Da Nang City in preparation for their Asian Beach Games next month in Viet Nam.

After over four years since it was announced, the $22 billion Nhon Hoi petrochemical project officially proposed to withdraw from Vietnam’s oil and gas development plan. To date at least three foreign oil and gas groups have fled from Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Can Tho police have busted a gang of seven burglars who allegedly stole VND10 billion (US$450,000) from six jewellery shops in the Mekong Delta since last year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts have urged the Ministry of Industry and Trade to reform its administrative structure as it now takes on too much work that is outside its purview. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Surrounded by poetic pine forest, Palace I, where Vietnam’s last emperor Bao Dai lived, is designed in a European style.

7M real estate FDI at nearly $1 billion, Investment promotion in U.S. promises to bring HCMC many contracts, Seafood exports likely to top $7.1 billion in 2016, Vietnamese brands yet to ASEAN countries