The Mekong Delta Cycling Tournament is scheduled to kick off on August 13 in Phu Quoc District in the southern province of Kien Giang.

Private equities in Vietnam have continued to attract foreign investors thanks to their strong growth prospects.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese artists, both professional and amateur, young and old, are now more and more active in searching for new materials and experimenting with new forms of creation in paintings,

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City is working on multiple infrastructure projects to deal with chronic congestion near Tan Son Nhat Airport and Cat Lai Port,

Mr. Sabbir Ahmed, Head of Retail Banking and Wealth Management at HSBC Vietnam, talks with VET about Vietnam's digital banking development.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An action plan for implementing the green growth strategy funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was unveiled in the central province of Thanh Hoa on August 4.

The servers for Pokemon Go in Vietnam are being installed. Perhaps in a few days, according to MMOserverstatus.com, Vietnamese gamers will be able to officially play the game, which has become wildly popular worldwide.

 Investigations of potential medical-waste dumping in Yen Phong District’s Van Mon Commune revealed the site contained normal waste, Nguyen Dinh Tam, deputy head of Bac Ninh Province’s Health Department, said.

 Duong Vu Lam wants to complain to the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) about the Myanmar referee who supervised the AFF Women’s Football Championship final on August 4.

 Three teachers and 19 students from the Hanoi-Amsterdam Gifted High School are in Israel to take part in a special programme on robotics and startups at Hakfar HaYarok high school in Tel Aviv from August 2-11.

 Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has proposed that Vietnam and the Philippines consider the extension of the rice trade deal between the two countries – expiring at the end of this year - from 2017 to 2020.

 About 30 households in Ky Anh Town, Ha Tinh Province, have signed a letter of complaint against the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment over the mass fish deaths in central region.

 A herd of feral buffaloes in a commune in the central province of Quang Tri have recently attacked and injured several people.

Every great seafood-eating city has a great seafood market - Tokyo has the Tsukiji Market, New York has the Fulton Market, and Ho Chi Minh City has the Binh Dien Market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the past few days, Thien Hung Pagoda in the central province of Binh Dinh welcomed hundreds of local and foreign martial arts practitioners, who came for the 6th International Festival of Vietnamese Traditional Martial Arts.

 Two years after he completed it in the northern province of Ha Giang, Polish-American director Matt Dworzańczyk has recently uploaded the documentary “Vibrant Highland, Commercial Love” on YouTube.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) on Tuesday approved a Vietcombank's proposal to increase charter capital by VND9.327 trillion (US$416.38 million) to VND35.977 trillion.

A huge banyan tree is attracting curious visitors to the central province of Quang Ngai’s Nghia Hanh District.

 Japan’s Shryudo region and Vietnam’s JTB-TNT Limited Company have worked together to spur tourism cooperation between Vietnam and Japan. 

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has asked the Ministry of Finance to refine the draft decree on horse, dog racing and international football betting, and submit it to the Government by August 15.