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

The massive stimulus package of VND30 trillion (US$1.32 billion), introduced in 2013 to encourage social housing development in Viet Nam and revitalise the listless real estate sector, has been entirely disbursed. 

 Vietnam's shipping group Vinalines are looking to keep holding at least 65 per cent of the chartered capital in large-scale seaports in Haiphong, Danang, and Saigon, which are considered geese that lay golden eggs.

 Vietnam officially concluded their campaign at the 29th SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on August 29, settling for third place overall with a collection of 58 gold, 50 silver and 60 bronze medals. 

 HCM City People's Committee leaders will meet the public twice a month to help deal with their complaints. 

The photo contest Vietnam Viewed From Height organized by Tuoitre newspaper has received 3,389 photos from 358 photographers across the country. Following are the awarded photos.

Fruits, flowers, joss paper, votive objects, vegetarian food, and Buddhist clothing, just to name a few, are best-selling products during Vu Lan (Parents' Day) and Xa Toi Vong Nhan (Wandering Soul’s Day) festival.

 Over the past decade, the social media market in Vietnam has been booming and shows no signs of slowing anytime soon, say representatives of Vietnam Social Media Corporation.

State-owned enterprises divested $163.4 million in book value from investment in non-core operations during the first 8 months of 2017, according to the Ministry of Finance’s Corporate Finance Department.

 Politburo member Pham Minh Chinh met Chairman of the House of Councillors of Japan Date Chuichi and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono in Tokyo on August 30, the last day of his working visit to Japan. 

 The 25-storey German House project, which is located at the centre of District 1 in the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City, will welcome the first guests on September 5.

The third APEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM3) and related meetings wrapped up in Ho Chi Minh City on August 30 after 13 days of working.