HCM City authorities are speeding up the relocation of polluting factories from the downtown area and stepping up efforts to protect canals – many of which have been cleaned — to improve the living environment.

 Prime Minister Dung gives immediate approval to finance the development of young doctor's invention helping sight-impaired people.

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 Not just coach Dinh The Nam of Viet Nam, but managers of three other teams are also hoping to win a ticket to the Asian Football Confederation U16 Championship's final.

  The Ha Noi People's Committee has issued a detailed maintenance plan for the areas of the city that include old streets.

 The Dak Nong Province's health department has halted the use of a batch of Quinvaxem vaccine, given to infants for free in the National Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI).

 Creams containing corticoids that are being sold in Viet Nam without proper regulation are being misused by people seeking whiter skin or alleviation of acne, according to medical experts.

 The Vietnam Football Federation said the national men's football team would play a friendly match with the Philippines on October 3.

 Vietnam suffered a shock defeat in their second match of the Olympics' women's football qualification round, Asian zone, September 14.

 Thang Long water puppet theatre will perform at the Kuala Lumpur International Arts Festival held in Malaysia from September 17 to 21.

 Hollywood director and screenwriter Jordan Charles Vogt-Roberts have arrived in Ninh Binh Province to prepare for his new film Kong: Skull Island, the upcoming King Kong prequel.

VietNamNet Bridge - The instant noodle market has become saturated after a long period of hot development. However, investors are still pouring more money into the sector.

 The French Institute in Vietnam will present a jazz concert by French duo Emile Parisien and Vincent Peirani on September 17 at Saigon Ranger bar in Ho Chi Minh City and on September 19 at L'Espace in Hanoi.

HCM City will have a chance to develop its semi-conductor industry as its high-tech park and a Japanese partner will jointly study and improve Minimal Fab technology, a new semi-conductor production system.

 The qualifying round for the Miss Jewellery 2015 pageant is taking place from September 14 to November 28.

 An improvised orchestra performance by the Hanoi Collective Orchestra with the participation of the audience will take place at 5pm on September 17 in Hanoi.

 Vietnam is considered a land of opportunities where consumers now have more power and willingness to spend, according to a recent report released by the global performance measurement company Nielsen.

 Meat exports from Europe to Vietnam have seen a strong increase in recent years, according to the Vietnam General Customs.

 The fourth phase of a long-term education project between Vietnam and Russia is underway, expected to help consolidate cooperation in science and technology between the two countries.

 The General Department of Defence Industry under the Ministry of Defence should promote its 70-year glorious tradition to contribute further to the process of building a revolutionary, regular and elite army towards modernisation, said the PM.

 Visiting Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang held a number of talks with Australian ministers on September 15.

 Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli reiterated the two countries’ policy of treasuring their relationship during talks in Beijing, China on September 15.

 Vietnam and Japan on September 15 issued a statement on a join vision for their relations on the occasion of Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s official visit to Japan from September 15-18.

 The Party Committee of the northern province of Hoa Binh on September 15 convened its 16 th Congress for the 2015-2020 tenure, the first of its kind to be held nationwide, with President Truong Tan Sang in attendance.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The property market in Ho Chi Minh City has been vibrant since the outset of 2015 thanks to buoyant merger and acquisition (M&A) activities which are expected to continue thriving in the time to ahead.