The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) group will focus on the equitisation of three power generating corporations in its restructuring plan for 2016-2020 period, according to the group’s Chairman Duong Quang Thanh. 

 Transport firms urged to fight wildlife trade, Hospital in HCM City launches hi-tech dialysis centre, Three students drown in Dak Lak reservoir, Design contest launched for banks of Han River, Hanoi Health Department launches online services

 On August 9, Hanoitourist Corporation (Hanoitourist) and Korean Global Consultant Network Co., Ltd. (GCN) signed an investment co-operation agreement on developing a five-star complex of hotels, a trade centre, and a racecourse in Hanoi.

 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will hit the market on August 19 and cost VND18.99 million (US$859).

 Vietnam Satellite Digital Television VSTV (K+) has launched a special offer for new subscribers and announced that HCM City Cable Television (HTVC) is the 6th co-distributor of 4 K+ channel.

 A forum on  Big Data Innovation Summit 2016  will take place in August 26, 2016, in HCM City 

 Standard & Poor's Global Ratings has affirmed its ratings of three large Vietnamese banks.

 A large crack has appeared in National Highway 217 in the central Thanh Hoa Province’s Muon Min Commune, forcing households living nearby to shift to ensure their safety.

 At least seven people died and four were injured, while one person was missing after torrential rains hit the northern and north-central regions over the past few days.

 Residents in Block N5 of Dong Tau apartment building in Hanoi's Thinh Liet Ward are concerned about their safety after the lobby floor partially caved in last week.

Viet Pride Hanoi 2016 Week will be held from Aug 17 to Aug 21, with film screenings, exhibition, workshops, Work with Pride, Viet Pride scholarship, PFLAG, queer disco, and the signature Viet Pride bicycle rally plus a new Pride parade. 

 This beautifully and sentimentally hand-drawn animation is a lively song about life of a unique fiction jungle tribe.

 Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh was unable to pull off a miracle win against Lin Dan, the two-time Olympic champion, on the ninth competition day of the Rio 2016 Olympics, August 14 (local time). 

 The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang is developing eco-tourism products based on its rivers, fruit orchards, and rural sights and life, according to its Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

 The Management Board of Hoa Lo Prison historical relic site in Hanoi on August 15 received valuable remembrances from the family of Water Eugene Wilber, a US pilot who was detained in the prison from 1968 to 1973. 

 Laptop sales have plateaued despite companies launching new products to stimulate the market, with insiders blaming it on the economy and a switch by consumers to tablets.

 The Maritime Bank is operating as usual with ensured liquidity, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has confirmed. 

 The tourism sector is focusing on developing high-quality human resources in order to become a spearhead economy.

 The Lao National Assembly sought closer links in many fields with its Vietnamese counterpart, Lao National Assembly Vice Chairman Somphan Phengkhammy has remarked.

A draft law on the guard force was discussed for the first time at the second session of the 14th National Assembly Standing Committee that opened at the parliament’s headquarters in Hanoi on August 15.