Hanoi’s Transport Department and the Hanoi Transport Corporation have proposed to the municipal People’s Committee a pilot programme on using an electronic transportation cards on BRT route 01 from September.

 The 20th Vietnam Film Festival will take place in the central coastal city of Da Nang from November 24-28 with the participation of nearly 850 delegates.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stated that cooperation with Tokyo Gas Co Ltd is very important as oil and gas cooperation is one of the top priorities in Vietnam-Japan economic ties.

 Rimau: Mascot of SEA Games 29

 The Supreme People’s Procuracy said on August 15 that it had issued an indictment against 49 accused of being involved in a gambling ring via the cmd368.com website.

 A landslide along the Tien River in Dong Thap  Province’s Hong Ngu District on Sunday night caused a coffee shop and 2,400 square metres of land to sink into the river.

 Vietnam lost to Japan 22-25, 21-25, 16-25 in the quarter-final round of the SMM 19th Asian Women’s Senior Volleyball Championship held in the Philippines yesterday.

 Vietnam’s U22 football team defeated Timor-Leste 4-0 in the first opening match of Group B of the 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Malaysia on August 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many people didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when they saw a photo of a man in flood-hit Muong La District in the northern province of Son La wearing a skirt.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Phuong and her friends were invited to a party at the newly opened restaurant of Mon Ngon Sai Thanh last week.

 Thanh Ha pottery village sits beside the Thu Bon River, 3 kilometers west of Hoi An.

VietNamNet Bridge - Provincial authorities in the central region have decided to withdraw proposed hydropower projects in an effort to protect forested land. 

Vegetable, fruit import strongly increases, Nutritional packaged F&B taking off, Mekong Capital fund invests in education concern, Vietnam wins prize in Asia HRD Awards 2017, HCMC firm in pork traceability

VietNamNet Bridge - The great potential of the Vietnamese food market has attracted the South Korean conglomerate the CJ Group.

As many as 352,000 students passed exams to enter universities in the first enrollment period, but only 242,000 students have turned up to start school, while 110,000 students have rejected the opportunity. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts are advising software firms to spend money in niche markets.

 A U.S. federal judge on Monday ruled that Microsoft Corp's  LinkedIn unit cannot prevent a startup from accessing public profile data, in a test of how much control a social media site ...

 Hackers have released more unaired episodes of popular HBO shows but the latest leak did not include anything on the hit series "Game of Thrones," 

 Rescue workers have recovered 270 bodies so far from a mudslide in the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown and the search continues for more, 

VietNamNet Bridge - Dozens of businesses contribute VND5 billion each a year to a tourism promotion fund expected to reach VND70 billion by 2020.