More than 1,000 people are expected to join a campaign to clean Quy Nhon City beaches in Binh Dinh Province.

 The Uzbek U23s and Palestine’s Olympic team arrived in Hanoi on August 1 for the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) U23 International Championship - Vinaphone Cup 2018.

Landmark 81- a super-tall skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City-provides visitors with majestic views of the city.

 The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting predicts that one or more tropical low pressure systems with storm potential to hit the East Sea and affect the mainland in August.

 A Cambridge professor who won one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, the Fields Medal, has had his award stolen in Brazil.

 The Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine on August 1 warned citizens to apply drastic measures to prevent dengue fever spreading, after a person reportedly died of the disease in Ho Chi Minh recently.

Police in Thai Nguyen province working with the Investigation Police Department on Drug-Related Crimes (C47) apprehended two suspects who were smuggling a large quantity of heroin.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has worked with the Ministries of Finance and Justice and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to propose suspending imports of cryptocurrency mining machines, said a MoIT official.

 Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos has left the company to become a fellow at nearby Stanford University.

 Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Do Hoang Anh Tuan and Croatian Minister of Finance Zdravko Marić have signed an agreement on the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income.

 The 11th Vietnam – India defence policy dialogue took place in New Delhi, India on August 1.

 The 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM-51) officially opened in Singapore on August 2, with the participation of foreign ministers from the 10 member countries.

 A 14-month-old girl has died after she was attacked by a dog in Australia, police say.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The education ministry will not terminate the high school graduation exam in the next few years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Seventy students from six countries in Asia and the Pacific (Cambodia, China, Korea, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam) are learning more about France and Vietnam, right here in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Volleyball Federation of Viet Nam (VFV) has been intensely preparing for the Asian Games 2018 (ASIAD 18) since the start of this year, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 400 professional badminton players from 26 nations and territories will compete in the Yonex – Sunrise Viet Nam Open 2018 in HCM City from August 7-12.

Vietnam’s products overseas, especially in the US, have been facing more anti-dumping lawsuits in recent years. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s Thai Son Nam crushed South Korea’s Jeonju Mag 10-1 in the first match of Group B of the AFC Futsal Club Championship in Indonesia yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh was knocked out in the second round of the men’s singles at the World Badminton Championships yesterday.