President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse left Hanoi on the morning of August 26 for a State-level visit to Brunei from August 26-28 at the invitation of King Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah.

 President Tran Dai Quang has urged Vietnamese representative offices abroad to continue prioritising matters that serve Vietnam’s sustainable development and raise the country’s position in the world arena.

VietNamNet Bridge – Without make-up for performance, the finalists of Miss Vietnam 2016 pageant look very young and charming.

 Paintings by two young artists - Do Trong Quy, 22, and Nguyen Dinh Son, 25, will be exhibited at exhibition “An Encounter” at Dong Phong Art Gallery, Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – In Southeast Asia, Vietnam is becoming an attractive tourist destination as shown by impressive hotel occupancy rates, which reached 75% this June in Hanoi, the highest in the last five years, reported CBRE.

Businesses operating in industrial and economic zones (IZs and EZs) exported nearly US$53.5 billion worth of commodities in the first seven months of 2016, contributing over 50% to Vietnam’s export revenue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dong Xam is a famous silver carving craft village in Thai Binh Province. The village also embraces a rich cultural tradition.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Five days after typhoon Dianmu went through Hanoi, many houses in Tu Lien Ward in Tay Ho District are still flooded.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 30-year-old woman paid a friend to cut off her hand and foot so she could pretend to have been hit by a train in order to receive VND3.5 billion ($150,000) of health insurance.

Graffiti festival 2016 is the third event within the series Street Art Fair organized by Hanoi Creative City to bring street art in general and graffiti particular closer to the community

 Compulsory drug detox facilities to be replaced by voluntary treatment, Committee to help victims of environmental incident in central region, Tuition fee hike not coincide with medical fee soar: Ministry

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many islets in the Mekong River have eroded seriously or even disappeared, to the regret of many former residents.

 The domestic agriculture industry should be restructured and made more transparent to develop clean food products, experts said at a seminar on developing clean food held yesterday in Ha Noi.

Indian DJ Tarang will perform for only one night at the Hanoi Intercontinental Hotel on August 27.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi’s People’s Committee has urged the People’s Committee in Soc Son District to review their management of agricultural land after local households have reportedly illegally built houses on farmland.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade has unveiled a strategy for developing rice exports in 2016-20 that targets reversing a declining trend over the last two years and increasing earnings to US$3 billion next year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An explosion at a coal gasification furnace in the central Nghe An Province‘s Trung Do Granite brick factory killed two workers, a factory manager said yesterday.

Vietnam stock market cap equivalent to 38% of GDP, PM issues plan to implement VN–Laos border trade agreement, Investors to buy 90% shares in VEAM's IPO, Vingroup to build $90mn hospital in Can Tho

 HCM City: man gets death penalty for drug transporting, Affordable homes urged for workers, Dance festival for teenagers kicks off, Patients with bizarre skin disease have high liver enzyme

Customs officers at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport on August 25 seized one airsoft weapon along with 2,000 rounds of ammunition that had arrived hidden in shipping containers.