VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Duc Thanh, director of the Viet Nam Institute for Economic and Policy Research, spoke to Hai Quan (Customs) newspaper about the country’s economic development targets.

Four talented classical artists from Germany, the UK and the U.S. will join chamber concerts in HCMC on August 11 and Danang on August 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in HCM City, one of the busiest city spots on weekends, is attracting even more families and young people with a new activity: battery-powered hoverboards.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will focus on easing traffic jams in the two worst affected areas before year-end -- roads leading to Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Cat Lai Port - an official has said.

Vietnamese real estate is attracting Japanese investors thanks to the market’s recovery and the country’s deep integration into the global economy.

 Japanese automobile makers Toyota and Honda earned VND trillions in profit in Vietnam over the past four years.

 Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc led the Vietnamese delegation to the eighth political-security-national defence dialogue with the US in Washington D.C on August 3. 

 Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh had a bilateral meeting with his Lao counterpart Khemmany Pholsena in Vientiane on August 3 on the sidelines of the ongoing 48th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting and related meetings. 

After the success of event No. 1 “Those Hands That Sew The Leaves”, Six Space is going to present event No. 2 ‘The Other Vietnamese Puppetry’. 

 In this August, you are invited to the film month “Children of heaven” with 4 films from Brazil, Iran, Italy and USA at the Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents in Hanoi. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Poor levels of dissolved oxygen (DO) in water was blamed as the main reason for the mass fish deaths at Da Nang’s 29-3 Lake – one of the biggest lakes in the park of the same name.

The Da Nang People’s Committee proposed to Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh at a meeting in late July that an additional 80-100 gambling tables be allowed at the Silver Shores International Resort.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam condemns the killing of and violence against children, including sexual violence, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, acts of abduction and attacks targeting schools and hospitals.

 Police used stun grenades and tear gas to clear protesters in the path of the Olympic torch in a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, two days before South America's first Olympic Games open under tight security.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi administration has yet to approve the project to construct a hotel at No 22-32 Le Thai To Street, near Hoan Kiem (Sword) Lake.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A pair of conjoined twins will be separated during microsurgery by doctors at HCM City Paediatrics Hospital No.2 when the twins are three months old, a doctor said yesterday.  

The family of late artist Ta Ty whose name was wrongly attributed to a painting artist Thanh Chuong claims to have made, displayed at a recent exhibition said that they would ‘sue’ people responsible for the wrongdoing.

The prime minister has approved investment for phase 2 of the secondary education development programme, aimed at enhancing conditions for ensuring the quality of secondary education.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has released a document requiring functional and relevant departments to instruct travel enterprises and the community in raising their awareness of civilized behavior to tourists. 

Two of nine persons who had been rescued from the site of a building collapse at about 3.30am today at No 43 Cua Bac Street in Hanoi have died.