VietNamNet Bridge – Russian scientists are seeking measures to preserve and restore the My Son sanctuary in the central province of Quang Nam, which was recognised as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1999.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and Malaysia inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the employment of workers in a bid to boost the number of Vietnamese guest workers in Malaysia, reported the Ha Noi Moi newspaper.

 Vietnam and the UK have substantial cooperation potential across fields to tap into, especially following UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Vietnam in July, according to Vietnam’s Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Van Thao.

 Arts Festival “AUTUMN MELODIES” 2015 will be an important cultural and artistic event for Ho Chi Minh City and the National Musical Academy.

 Parliament house to be handed over next month, Man sentenced for fraud, Upgraded highway an accident horror stretch, Seven companies violating food safety fined in a week, US corporation to build more schools in Vietnam

 US actor Emile Hirsch has pleaded guilty to assaulting a female film executive during the Sundance Film Festival in Utah in January.

A Vietnamese was injured in a bomb explosion in Bangkok which killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 120 on August 17.

  The life of a man from the central Nghe An Province's Con Cuong District, who was shot in the heart, has been saved.

 Following the failure of reaching a deal in Hawaii in late July, the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) partners are holding bilateral talks while waiting for multilateral negotiations to resume in September.

VietNamNet Bridge - High inflation, the biggest threat for macroeconomic stability, is no longer a threat and conditions are very favorable for economic development, economists say.

 The Southeast Livestock Association said it is preparing to file a dumping lawsuit against U.S. frozen chicken.

 Indonesian rescuers have recovered the remains of 54 people who died onboard a Trigana Air plane that crashed in Papua region on Sunday.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held a meeting last week at the headquarters of the government regarding the construction of the National Museum of History.

 Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has said the bombing of a shrine in the capital, Bangkok, on Monday was the "worst ever attack" on the country.

 Western streets in major cities- Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City- are seen as ideal places for entertainment or dating as they reflect different Vietnamese cultures.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first two-deck high speedboat Green-lines DP was piloted on the Sai Gon River on Sunday to replace the old hydrofoils that had been used between HCM City and the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.

 Deputy PM Vu Van Ninh on Monday reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to pursuing socialist-oriented market economy while delivering a speech at the Forbes Viet Nam’s business forum in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health will set up five inspection teams to monitor dengue fever conditions throughout the country because of the complicated situation caused by dengue outbreaks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A movie on one of Viet Nam's most notorious female gangsters won the Best Feature Southeast Asia Panorama award during the Festival of Globe Awards 2015 held in California, the US, from August 7 to 16.

 A moderately adventurous tour to explore Va and Nuoc Nut Caves within the UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh were officially launched on August 16.

 Ho Chi Minh City will build a special economic zone encompassing districts 7, Nha Be, Binh Chanh and Can Gio in order to fully tap the southern economic hub’s potential and advantages for further development.

 Nguyen Thanh Duy raked a bronze medal in the IT software solutions for business at the 43rd WorldSkills Competition – the first medal of the Vietnamese team after five times participating in the event.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Turkish cueist Tasdemir Tayfun, previously ranked World No11 in the event, bested Blomdahl Torbjorn of Sweden, seeded No 1, to win 2015's Three Cushion Billiards World Cup in HCM City on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Top Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam defeated Youssef Hossam of Egypt in the second match of the qualifying round of the US$10,000 Egypt 27 Futures on Sunday.

 A real estate bubble of the kind seen in 2007 is not likely to occur this year or 2016, according to Le Hoang Chau, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association (HoREA).