Vietnam pursues a consistent policy of attaching special importance to its friendship with China and giving it a top priority in the country’s foreign policy, affirmed Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. 

 Vietnam and Singapore have agreed to boost cooperation between armies, as well as in the fight against terrorism and non-traditional security crimes such as piracy, human trafficking and laundering. 

 Hanoi and Beijing will enhance cooperation in culture and tourism, share experience in urban planning and management, and promote trade, investment and finance.

 Ho Chi Minh City and Japan’s Aichi prefecture on September 13 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that aims to step up their cooperation and friendship for both sides' prosperity. 

 President Tran Dai Quang highly valued the French Community of Belgium (Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles) for prioritising its relations with Vietnam while receiving its Minister-President Rudy Demotte in Hanoi on September 13. 

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The exhibition Mid Autumn Night is a banquet of ideas and feelings expressed in two very different mediums, bronze sculpture and works of autumnal nights in oil on canvas.

 VietNamNet Bridge - If Bill Gates or Steve Jobs began their career in their family's garage, young people today can launch their start-ups in co-working spaces.

VietNamNet Bridge - A report from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) shows worrying figures about the environment. 

 Statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs show that the foreign sector controls roughly 80% of the local car and automobile (excluding motorbike) retail market with a sales volume eclipsing all of Southeast Asia.

VietNamNet Bridge - Artificial intelligence now plays an increasingly important role in enterprises’ operation as it helps increase productivity, thus optimizing profit. However, Vietnamese businesses still hesitate to invest in it.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As the traditional theatre has attracted fewer audiences in recent years, costume designers in HCM City are facing challenges to keep their art alive.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City is experiencing an ongoing shortage of blood for transfusions due to a lack of donors.

 Vietnam is preparing to sue the US Department of Commerce for its latest antidumping duty administrative review on Vietnamese shrimp, with higher duties proposed for any shipment from the Southeast Asian country.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Luong Nhu Hoc Street in Ho Chi Minh City was busy four days before the Mid-August Festival 2016, with many foreign tourists buying toys for decoration.

 A super typhoon, named Meranti, has been formed off the northwestern Pacific Ocean, near the East Sea, according to the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre.

Vietnam earned another four awards in the latest round of the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research, a U.S. Government program to fund scientific research in developing countries.

Hanoi children enjoyed the Mid-Autumn Festival with various activities held at Thang Long Royal Citadel and Hanoi’s Old Quarter.

Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have agreed on organising a contest in the fisheries industry in 2016 for Vietnamese employees who wish to work in the RoK under the Employment Permit System programme.

Ya Tao, the elephant of local Ksor Cham in Gia Lai Province, is now the only living domesticated elephant in the northern Highland region, a place once famous for its elephant residents.