Billboard Viet Nam has launched its first international VJ Hunt campaign to search for the first generation of music ambassadors. 

 Women in Australia will pursue a class action lawsuit over a sterilisation device that has allegedly caused medical problems for women worldwide.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City is seeking funds for 17 flood-control and wastewater treatment projects because of a city budget shortfall, authorities said at a meeting last Thursday.

The Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has instructed Mekong Delta provinces to keep farmers informed about weather and tide conditions so they can harvest crops unprotected by dyke systems.

 People in the Indian subcontinent will, from Friday, have only one way to watch top flight Spanish football: on Facebook.

Chairman of the Ha Noi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has approved the establishment of a centre for disease control based on the restructuring of the Centre for Preventive Medicine in Hanoi. 

Dozens of residents of a mountainous commune in the northern province of Phu Tho fear they may have contracted HIV after receiving allegedly contaminated injections at a private clinic.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A mother, daughter and granddaughter were found dead yesterday after being strangled to death at their home in Chau Thanh District’s Tam Hiep Commune in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, 

Soc Trang province upgrades schools in Khmer communities, Thanh Hoa holds flood preparation, response drills, Fatherland Front leader receives Singaporean official, Health minister urges hospitals to reduce patient overload

 The Rencontres du Vietnam (Vietnam Meeting) on very high energy phenomena in the universe opened in Quy Nhon city of the central province of Binh Dinh on August 13.

 The Government plans not to license any more wholly foreign-owned banks in Vietnam but encourages foreign banks to buy weak domestic banks, said Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.

 Vietnam’s High Command of Navy has held a ceremony to celebrate the recognition of HQ 671 military transport vessel as a national treasure in the northern port city of Hai Phong.

Both catfish and shrimp are meeting difficulties in exports because of the shrinking market. However, while catfish farmers still can make a profit, farmers of white-legged shrimp cannot.

 The HCM City Electricity Corporation encourages households to install rooftop solar panels and now there are 475 of them connected to its grid with a total capacity of nearly 5.3MW.

 Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov has been appointed as chairman of the Russian subcommittee of the Russia-Vietnam Intergovernmental Committee for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Technological Cooperation. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly (NA)’s Standing Committee has asked for changes to a draft law that includes animal welfare, animal rights and humane treatment of livestock to be explained.

 Chairman of Hanoi city’s People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said on August 13 that 47 projects in the capital city will have their licences revoked due to delay and violations to the Land Law.

 Minister To Lam said on August 13 that the Ministry of Public Security and the Central Public Security Party Committee have resolved to strictly deal with any violations within the ministry, even those involving senior officers.

 The Standing Committee of the National Assembly (NA) will convene its 27th session in September to discuss several important issues, said NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – As reliance on information technology becomes ever more pervasive in society, cybercrime has grown rapidly both in quantity and sophistication in Vietnam,