Fifteen outstanding Lao students in Vietnam were honoured during a ceremony in Hanoi on September 5. 

 The programme, held every Monday and Friday at 10.30 am will last 90 minutes. Each tour will serve a maximum of 250 visitors for a cost of 400,000 VND each.

Instead of travelling far from Hanoi during the national holiday, many youngsters decided to visit the exhibition on Nguyen Dynasty at Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam on the last day of their three-day holiday.

 China’s announcement of launching a live-fire drill in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago is a serious violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty over the archipelago, said the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.

 Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc and Cuban First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcelino Medina Gonzalez co-chaired the fourth political consultation at the Deputy Foreign Minister level in Hanoi on September 5.

 The 20th Asia-Pacific Chiefs of Defence Conference is taking place in Canada on September 4-6 under the theme “The Future Security Environment: Challenges, Complexity and Cooperation”.

 Russia reserves the right to cut further the number of U.S. diplomatic staff in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, 

 Facebook Inc is gearing up to make money from WhatsApp, the messaging service used by more than a billion people every day, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City, Ha Noi, Ha Long Bay, Hoi An… Binh Dinh? Provincial officials hope to persuade tourists to add the province to their Viet Nam itineraries.

VietNamNet Bridge - Wood vinegar, or Pyroligneous acid, has long-term effects and no negative impact on the environment.

More than 1,000 Vietnamese companies have been removed from the list of companies allowed to export products to the US for failing to extend their registration. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Several Vietnamese private publishing houses have gained success in exporting books, though the number remains modest.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is one of 15 countries on the world’s medicinal herb map. However, the priceless treasure has not been exploited in an effective and sustainable way.

Economic development is not a linear formula for each and every country to blindly follow, the industrial revolution, seems to be coming loose as technology and automation are reshaping production and trade.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many young people are sacrificing their health for a desirable body, using supplements for muscle growth.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s proposal to increase the feed-in tariff (FiT) of wind power is expected to take projects currently on paper into implementation.

No undergraduates enrolled in a university in Nam Dinh Province in the 2017 admission season, the same as last year, but the school is still operating thanks to its postgraduate programme.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The lack of a database on geological conditions underground is the biggest setback for planners of the capital city’s transport system.

The Biodiversity Conservation Centre of GreenViet, an NGO in Da Nang, will launch a warning application for smart phone users to alert of violations against animals and vegetation in the Son Tra Nature Reserve.

 Construction workers in the northern province of Thanh Hoa discovered a 1m-long, 30cm-diameter bomb buried in the ground while building an asphalt road in Ham Rong Ward on Monday.