This year’s Vietnam Innovation Network forum received a special guest, Associate Prof Dr Tran Thi Nhu Hoa from the Vietnamese Students’ Association in South Korea (VSAK), a researcher and lecturer at Gachon University in South Korea.

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 22,000 new classrooms have been built in the last year, but Hanoi still lacks classrooms. Classes with 70 students still exist.

Binh Thuan province, which wants to focus on developing tourism instead of polluting the titanium mining industry, is seeking permission to exclude 20,000 hectares of land out of the national titanium reserve.

 President Tran Dai Quang arrived in Addis Ababa on August 23 afternoon, beginning a State-level visit to Ethiopia at the invitation of President Mulatu Teshome. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Institute of Haematology and Blood Tranfusion (NIHBT) is desperately in need of donors who have the blood type O.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Government is 100 per cent behind supporting ethnic minority groups.

 Up to 892 karaoke bars in Hanoi have been temporarily suspended due to failing fire safety regulations.

 A man in Hanoi was mauled and bitten to death while trying to stop two fighting dogs at his home.

 Thousands of households in Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces in the Central Highlands have left behind cultivated lands for various hydropower projects yet the compensation work still leaves much to be desired.

Around 300 artists and representatives from 12 ethnic groups will take part in various activities at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism on the outskirts of Hanoi between August 31 and September 30.

 According to statistics from the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV), as of May, State-owned banks’ combined equity was VNĐ252.472 trillion (US$10.83 billion), down 0.86 per cent.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will hold bids for the right to import 94,000 tonnes of sugar this year.

A report by the Ministry of Industry and Trade this year showed that the number of Vietnamese enterprises interested in investing and applying new technologies was still modest.

 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has urged the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces, especially An Giang Province, to apply advanced technologies in production of tra fish (catfish).

Cassava is one of VN’s billion-dollar export products. But the starchy root’s dependence on a single export market and shrinking production supply areas have challenged the industry’s ambitious goal of reaching US$2 billion worth of exports by 2023.

 Viet Nam gained a trade surplus of US$2.92 billion to August 15, according to the latest statistics from the General Department of Customs.

Children offered training in traditional opera, ICHAM to hold event, Dancing for charity, Folk games revive culture, Fun run in September, Raising the bar for art, Classical music show in Hanoi

 VietNamNet Bridge – A conference about the late playwright Luu Quang Vu was held on Monday (Aug 20), honouring his significant contribution to the development of Vietnamese stage art.

 The 14th International Travel Expo HCM City (ITE HCMC) will take place from September 6 – 8 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese businesses have been reportedly tricked by foreign partners from Morocco, Canada, New Zealand and the US recently.