Six Vietnamese athletes qualified to the final round of Pencak Silat on August 26 at the ongoing 2018 Asian Games (ASIAD 2018) in Indonesia.

The customs agency at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City has busted a ring trafficking marijuana from the US to Vietnam.

The Defence Ministry’s Border Guard High Command held the third border friendship exchange at the weekend in Hanoi.

Vietnamese shares are forecast to extend their growth in the final week of August by a marginal rate while volatility is widely expected by analysts.

The brands were once ‘king’ in the market, but later lost their market share to foreign rivals.

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts have voiced concern about the short life cycle of forests which are sold four to six years after planting.

Many pedagogical schools complain that the numbers of students applying for admission was too modest after the first enrollment campaign.

The oil price fluctuations have had a big impact on the business performance of Vietnam’s oil and gas firms. While miners and producers have unsatisfactory business results, distributors have made make fat profits.

 After Vietnam’s Olympic team beat Bahrain to win a ticket to the ASIAD quarter-finals, many travel companies in Hanoi have promptly designed tours to bring Vietnamese fans to Indonesia to support the players on August 27. 

The electricity outages that occurred in the dry season may return and become even more serious as provincial authorities do not want to build more thermal power plants in their localities.

VietNamNet Bridge - A series of new airport projects and upgrading of existing airports have been suggested with total investment capital of billions of dollars.

 The National Assembly will not review the draft law on special administrative economic units at the sixth National Assembly session in October to have more time for consolidating the bill.

 Vietnam Airlines will conduct additional flights to Jakarta, Indonesia to serve Vietnamese football fans as the country’s Olympic team is making history by entering the quarter finals at the ongoing ASIAD 2018.

 A national portal of pharmacies throughout Vietnam was officially launched on August 24, in a bid to inhibit the sale of low quality drugs on the market and keep prices in check.

 A resident in Ho Chi Minh City has created a version of the Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 mascots out of egg shells.

 The central province of Quang Binh’s investment promotion conference will take place on August 26-27 in Dong Hoi city under the chair of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

 An exhibition of 44 paintings on Vietnam’s land and people by 22 artists from Asian countries was opened to the public in a ceremony in Hanoi on August 25.

 All eyes in Southeast Asia are on the Vietnam Olympic team, who has earned a quarterfinal debut at the Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 with a historic victory over Bahrain two days ago.

 The I-on Health Cup Race was held in Hue City, the capital of the central province of Thua Thien Hue on August 25 to kick start the Coupe De Hue cycling tournament, which attracts over 700 local and foreign riders.

 Karate athlete Nguyen Minh Phung won a silver medal in the men’s 84kg kumite (combat) event at the ongoing Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 in Indonesia on August 25.