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 Ha Long city, home to the UNESCO-recognised world heritage site Ha Long Bay, has recently launched a new tourism product, introducing a model combining sustainable aquaculture and responsible tourism on Ha Long Bay. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is having a headache removing illegal residents from the citadel’s walls located in its municipal city of Hue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two designs by the HCM City–based company Tropical Space won awards at the Architects Regional Council Asia (Arcasia) Awards for Architecture 2018 in Tokyo last week.

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 The Đuống River Surface Water Plant, the largest water supply project in northern Vietnam, is speeding up the construction of all work items to inaugurate the plant in time for the anniversary of Hanoi’s liberation day.

 A series of award-winning movies will be on screen for the first time and free at the fifth Hanoi International Film Festival, which will take place in the capital city from October 27-31.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Construction work on eastern section of the North-South Expressway will start next year, and is scheduled to finish by 2021, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) announced yesterday.

 US President Donald Trump appreciated steps of development in the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership when receiving a letter of credentials handed over by Vietnamese Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc on September 17.

 One more club “Reading with Children” has recently opened in Hanoi, creating an additional playground for young book lovers in the capital city.

The Ministry of Transport and Hai Phong’s People’s Committee on Monday launched a pilot programme to promote passenger transport on the Hai Phong – Ha Noi – Kunming route, aiming to promote cross-border travel between Vietnam and China.

 Apart from onion and garlic markets, the fish or seafood market on Ly Son island in the central province of Quang Ngai also begins at the crack of dawn attracting many visitors.

Nearly 5,000 deals involving foreigners buying into Vietnamese businesses have been reported so far this year, an increase of 50 percent compared with 2017.

 Torrential rain is still forecast for northern regions of Viet Nam today, although super typhoon Mangkhut weakened into a tropical low-pressure system and made landfall in China’s Guangxi Province yesterday morning.

VietNamNet Bridge - The proposal to buy electricity from Lao hydropower plants has been facing opposition from many researchers, who say that benefits are small compared with the costs.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam needs a digital ecosystem with focus on made-in-Vietnam social media instead of foreign owned players such as Facebook and Google.

Conversations have heated up on Internet forums about Ho Ngoc Dai, the father of the ‘education technology’ program, who wrote a textbook for first graders.

 National carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has started offering a hotel booking service on its website, www.vietnamairlines.com, from September.

 Ho Nguyen Trung Street in the central city of Danang has attracted many visitors with its colourful paintings in recent days.

 Vietnamese beauty Duong Nguyen Kha Trang was crowned Super Model International 2018 at the final night of the pageant in Thailand on September 14.