The 18th national conference on external affairs, which took place in Hanoi on August 21, laid emphasis on economic integration as the focus of localities’ external relation work. 

 The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has predicted that turnover of the country's seafood exports will reach $7 billion for the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The special “Pau Po Cu” Corn Cake is usually made in the 4th month and the 5th month of a year (according to the Lunar Calendar) in Lao Cai Province.

VietNamNet Bridge - The OTT (over the top) market in which apps for messaging free of charge on the internet has cooled down after a hot period.

VietNamnet Bridge - Many newly emerged businesses have been sold to foreign investors as soon as they became better known, and before they could become powerful conglomerates. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Just one year after the opening of the first shop and announcing a plan to open 1,400 points of sale, Microsoft Store has closed. 

 Despite imposing additional tariffs on imported steel billets and rods, Vietnam has failed to stem the influx of imported steel, mainly from China whose suppliers are offloading products cheaply due to oversupply in their domestic market.

Raising tuition is necessary for state-owned universities that are operating autonomously in order to have enough funds to cover expenses and rid themselves of reliance on the state budget.  However, there is resistance to such increases.

 Water puppetry troupes in Nguyen and Dong Cac villages are the most famous in Thai Binh province. Nguyen villagers are proud of their long cultural tradition and secret of making puppets. Puppet artisans are just ordinary farmers.

The People’s Committee of HCM City has approved a plan from now to 2020 to offer extended kindergarten hours for children of workers at industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs) who work overtime.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The late arrival of floods in the Mekong Delta provinces this year has been blamed on a major attack by rats on crops there.

Local companies have been swimming against the tide, trying to make headway into the lucrative Lao retail market, says the Hanoi Women Association of Small and Medium Enterprises.

 The marine environment in the coastal areas of four central provinces stretching from Ha Tinh to Thua Thien-Hue is basically safe, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Tran Hong Ha has said.

 The grand finale of Miss Vietnam 2016 is slated for Phu Tho Sporting Event Hall in Ho Chi Minh City on August 28, with the competition of 30 outstanding contestants. 

 The 29th Diplomatic Conference opened in Hanoi on August 22 with the purpose of seeking measures to increase the efficiency of external activities and international integration to successfully realise the 12th National Party Congress resolution. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2016 SEAGZone Artistic Junior & Age Groups Championships is scheduled to kick off on August 23-29 at Quan Ngua Sports Palace in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – One person was killed and seven seriously injured when a scaffolding collapsed even as workers were pouring concrete for constructing a house in Binh Dinh Province early today, Aug 22.

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to set up a task force responsible for monitoring and accelerating the deployment of tasks, conclusions and directions that the Government and the PM assign to ministries, agencies and localities.

 A music video by transgender Huong Giang Idol is facing the risk of being banned due to containing provocative images.

Ho Dac Thanh Chuong of Quoc Hoc Hue High School in Hue City won the championship at the 16th season of the “Road to Mt. Olympia's Peak" quiz show which ended in Hanoi on August 21.