Two foreigners have died after their boat capsized in rough seas offshore Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, the country’s search and rescue agency said on September 16.

The Ministry of Transport has requested the Chinese contractor of Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line in Hanoi to commit a specific deadline when the project will be finished.

Two traditional trades – fish sauce in Nam O Village in Da Nang and Thanh Ha pottery in Hoi An – have been recognised as National Intangible Heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The United Nations investigators said on September 16 that nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a serious risk of violence, warning that the repatriation of a million of this community remains "impossible".

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has asked local commercial banks to tighten control of loans that use savings books as collateral to ensure the safety of the banking system.

 Work starts on North-South Expressway’s Cam Lo – La Son section

The Phnom Penh court on September 16 ordered the arrest of Sam Rainsy, exile leader of the dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP).

Co-working spaces have become the choice of many startups and small and medium sized businesses.

To preserve the Raglai ethnic minority language, two students at the Pinăng Tắc Ethnic Minority Boarding High School in Ninh Thuan Province have developed a mobile phone app for self-study.

According to website Transfermarkt, Vietnamese forward Nguyen Cong Phuong’s estimated market value has risen to approximately EUR200,000, equivalent to more than VND5 billion.

The largest lantern festival in the country was held in Tuyen Quang to welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival, with large crowds of local residents and tourists coming to celebrate the event on September 13.

Food Safety Management Board in HCM City has warned people against consuming dog meat due to potential dangers.

Statistics on September 15 showed that the air in Hanoi with PM2.5 Particles pollution had worsened.

A four-year-old boy in the northern province of Bac Ninh had to be hospitalised after being left on a school bus for seven hours.

With a political bureau’s resolution on improving legal framework for FDI attraction until 2030 adopted recently, many insiders pin high hope on FDI attraction prospect of Vietnam.

The Formula 1 racetrack in Hanoi is a remarkable construction of the capital city which broke ground in late March 2019. 

The Police Department for the Investigation of Drug-Related Crimes under the Ministry of Public Security announced the cooperation on September 15.

To preserve the Raglai ethnic minority language, two students at the Pinang Tac Ethnic Minority Boarding High School in Ninh Thuan province have developed a mobile phone app for self-study.

Russia will transfer new technologies in the spheres of IT, environment and health care to Vietnam’s Advanced International JSC (AIC) under an agreement signed in Moscow on September 15.

The Government has ordered ministries and sectors to keep up with the set deadlines of key transport and power projects in its resolution on September 13.