The competitive power generation market would become operational expeditiously by 2018, together with the pilot implementation of competitive wholesale power market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Real estate firms all have confirmed a significant increase in the number of buyers from overseas recently, both overseas Vietnamese and foreigners.

Beautiful Korea and Taipei, ancient Yangon and the shoppers’ paradises of Bangkok and Singapore are all awaiting visitors following the news that Vietjet is giving away 400,000 promotional tickets on all its domestic and international routes.

 Thousands of labourers from north-west provinces have worked illegally in foreign countries.

 Brain cells in Parkinson's disease exhaust themselves and die prematurely, burning out like an "overheating motor", an early study suggests.

 VietNamNet Bridge - "Over the past 25 years, the aging disease has dogged and abused me. I feel like I’m imprisoned in hell on earth, living is worse than death,” said Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai, the 31-year-old woman in Hoi An town who has aged 50 years.

 Vietnamese farmers are crying foul now that the nation’s markets are inundated with cheap US chicken and they fear that not only the industry but their way of life are threatened.

 Dam me (Passion), directed by Phi Tien Son, will be on screen at the upcoming fourth ASEAN film festival in Prague, as heard during a press conference held in the Czech Republic on August 26.

  Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the State Capital Investment Corporation to work with the Ministries of Health and Science and Technology to map out a project to build an industrial-scale vaccine production plant in the country.

Vietnam targets US$300 billion export turnover by 2020, India pours US$400 mil in 101 projects in Vietnam, Foreign suppliers may have to build seed factories in Vietnam, EVN earns US$43.6 million from divestment

 Apple Inc. has chosen FPT Shop and The gioi di dong (Mobile World) as its two main retailers to directly import its hi-tech products from Apple Singapore.

 The Ministry of Transport has asked the Government to permit pilot implementation of a project to apply information technology in the management of contract-based passenger transportation (Grabcar) developed by GrabTaxi Vietnam.

 The crew of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) wrapped up their 10-day visit in Da Nang, Vietnam Aug. 28, completing the ship’s last mission stop of Pacific Partnership 2015.

 Viet Nam grabbed two bronze medals at the World Xiangqi (Chinese chess) Championships which wrapped up in Germany yesterday.

 For the first time over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg.

VietNamNet Bridge - Bank shares and state-owned enterprises’ (SOEs) IPOs (initial public offering) have become highly attractive to foreign investors. 

 The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade will launch its first online shopping day on Saturday on the website www.khuyenmaitructuyenhcm.gov.vn in an aim to enhance trust among consumers.

 Six companies have been fined a total of VND535 million (US$23,732) for sending spam messages promoting gambling and providing illegal digital services.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Airport Corporation of Viet Nam (ACV) to be investor of the Long Thanh International Airport in the southern Dong Nai Province.

 Doctors at the HCM City University Medical Centre have saved the life of a baby born with its heart outside the chest cavity, the first such operation in the country.

 HCM City People' Council has rejected a proposal made by the city government to clear 500sq.m of forest in Can Gio Biosphere Reserve to build a forest protection station.

 There have been serious shortcomings in management of forestry and farming enterprises. So said the national assembly's deputies during a meeting yesterday to review the management of Viet Nam's forest and farming from 2004-2014.

  The National Traffic Safety Committee has said 12 hotlines will receive pubic feedback about traffic safety during National Day (September 2) and the beginning of the new school year.

Book lovers will have a chance to buy rare second-hand books at a special festival to be held in the capital this weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many contagious diseases can appear and spread out on a large scale in the coming school year, such as dengue fever, hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease, flu and newly emerging catastrophic diseases like MERS-CoV and Ebola,