In recent years, the number of children involved in water-related incidents has increased. To prevent these incidents, local authorities have found a creative way to build natural swimming pools for children to learn how to swim and also go swimming. 

 A new employment mobile application, called iWork, has been developed by iWork Service JSC and will make debut this September.

 Martial artists from the northern province of Hai Duong had an exchange with those from Seine-Saint-Denis province of France on August 4.

 The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has asked the Government to stop the electricity subsidy for poor households from next year because of its negative impact on the national poverty elimination policies.

 Collector Nguyen Ngoc An has donated 367 antiques from different periods in history to Ba Ria - Vung Tau province’s museum.

 Vietnam’s U23 team won their second game in a row at the U23 International Championship - Vinaphone Cup 2018 by defeating U23 Oman 1-0 on at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on August 5.

The Vietnamese women’s team won a silver medal at the 2018 Asian Team Chess Championship held in Iran from July 26 to August 4. 

There have always been a number of challenges facing learners on their climb to success. However, these difficulties are incrementally harder for children in remote, disadvantaged areas. 

Vietnamese businesses cannot squeeze into foreign conglomerates’ global production chains, even though they can make products satisfying requirements by importers in developed countries.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many depressed children are judged to be shy and lazy, while parents think they are stubborn and disobedient. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese businesses that sell Thai fruits to China could create misunderstandings about Vietnam’s fruit export situation.

VietNamNet Bridge - ROBO Café, the first café in Hanoi where visitors were served by a robot named Mortar, no longer exists. 

Vietnam’s railway sector is expected to become more appealing to investors interested in public-private partnership projects on the back of new incentives. 

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh attended the 19th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, the eighth East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and the 25th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Singapore on August 4.

 Today, Ly Chuy Go, a seventh grader at the Pa Ve Su Ethnic Boarding School in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau’s Muong Te district and his schoolmates are eager to return to school after the weekend. 

 Driven by Vietnam’s large millennial population, co-working spaces are on the rise in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and local operators are now being joined by major international players.

Economists and bankers analyse the impact of the trade war between China and the US on Vietnam and how the country and its businesses can leverage the opportunities that it may bring.

Not many economists believe in the theory that economic crisis happens once every 10 years. However, they are showing concerns about the internal problems of the economy.

 Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh had bilateral meetings on August 4 with the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and foreign ministers of the 

 Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem finished second at the ninth Danzhou Super Grandmaster Tournament which concluded in China’s Hainan province on August 3.