Former chairman and director of VN Pharma JS Company Nguyen Minh Hung who has been sentenced 12 years in prison in the cancer medicine scam said that brother-in-law of Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien works for the company. 

 Police in District 2 in HCM City are investigating into complaints by residents in Thao Dien Ward that their pets have suffered from mass poisoning. 

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed to remove as much as 3,000 unnecessary business conditions that cause extra costs for many businesses.

 A tropical depression intensified into the eighth storm in the East Sea today (August 31), according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ministries have been increasingly hearing calls for help from many industries.

 Administrative procedures in many ministries, sectors and localities remain complex, causing difficulties for enterprises, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the monthly Government meeting on Wednesday.

 A concert for young people will include 17 Vietnamese singers, rappers, DJs, and music producers at the Hoa Lư Stadium on September 15.

 Tran Quoc Huy, known as TuypTran, will show his latest paintings in a solo exhibition opening at Dia Projects today.

Dutch DJ and producer Paul Hazendonk, owner of renowned Manual Music Label, will perform at the Lighthouse on September 16.

Novartis AG won highly anticipated U.S. approval for the first of a new type of potent gene-modifying immunotherapy for leukemia, a $475,000 treatment that marks the start of a potential new treatment paradigm

The International Travel Expo HCM City returns for the 13th time as the most established annual international travel trade event in the Mekong sub-region from September 7 to 9 at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Centre.

The National Traffic Safety Committee has announced 10 hotlines to receive residents’ reports about traffic safety on National Day, which is on September 2, and the start of the new school year.

A regulation recently issued by the Hanoi People’s Committee requires basements be part of new constructions in the inner city.

 With strong support from parent companies, many foreign life insurers are expanding their distribution networks and diversifying insurance products and services to utilise the potential of the Vietnamese market.

 The city has seen positive results from its programmes on “building a civilized city without waste”, according to participants at a meeting held by HCM City’s Viet Nam Fatherland Front Committee on Tuesday.

 A new circular issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has postponed the opening of modern slaughterhouses and delayed the closing of old facilities.

 Taylor Swift’s vengeful new music video “Look What You Made Me Do,” is smashing records on YouTube, garnering more than 43 million views in its first 24 hours of release.

 Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing”, a satire about shrinking humans to five inches tall as a solution to over-population and global warming, opened the Venice film festival on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge - As warned by experts, the revenue from Nhan Co and Tan Rai bauxite projects has been disappointing.

The economic fallout from Hurricane Harvey will make the Federal Reserve’s job more difficult when it meets in three weeks, but U.S. central bankers have looked past major storms before with little change in monetary policy