Football gambling will be trialed for five years, both online and in betting shops, with a restricted distance between the shops and schools or children’s playgrounds, the government has recently announced.

The quality of English teaching and learning at general schools has once again become a hot topic of discussion after MOET announced that students got an average of 3.3 marks out of 10 at the national high-school finals. 

 The cartoon “Oggy and the Cockroaches” (France, 2013, 80 mins) is being screened at L'Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi on August 14, at 4pm.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities of the southern province of Dong Nai have formed a task force to deal with nail traps on highway 51.

 The local mining industry saw a decline in production growth in the past seven months, which is likely to extend to the end of the year, said the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VietNamNet Bridge – The vice chief of the Department of Culture of Ca Mau province has been reprimanded for a photo on the Internet in which his hand was clasped over the “sensitive body part” of a female cleaner.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly a month after the video clip featuring Miss Vietnam 2014 Ky Duyen smoking at a café was posted on the Internet, the Miss Vietnam pageant organizing board has made the final decision on the case.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A market located at the junction of highways 62 and N2 in Thạnh Hoa Township of the southern province of Long An has long been known as a market for wild birds.

 The governments of Vietnam and Japan agree that an efficient and competitive ASEAN green economy is vital to creating jobs, strengthening the middle class, and ensuring sustainable economic growth.

 An ADB-funded project that strengthens agriculture science and technology in Vietnam was among the three winners of the Most Successful Development Project Awards selected by the bank’s Independent Evaluation, ​ADB said in its August 8 news release. 

 Vietnamese Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich and his Indonesian counterpart Ryamizard Ryacudu highlighted the countries’ fruitful defence cooperation during talks in Hanoi on August 8. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - To have safe food, many residents have turned the roof of their houses into gardens and fish ponds. This has become a trend in big cities like Hanoi and HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Freshmen to universities with financial autonomy have called on the universities to publicise tuition fees so that they and their families can manage the sum actively.

Several recently discovered cases of fraud related to weights-and-measures equipment at petrol stations and jewellery shops have sounded the alarm over increasing and more sophisticated trade frauds,

 The Ministry of Construction has issued Circular No.19/2016/TT-BXD guiding the implementation of the Housing Law and Decree No. 99/2015/ND-CP dated October 20, 2015 of the Government guiding the implementation of the 2014 Housing Law.

 Vietnamese mobile phone brands have been displaced from the market by high-quality foreign products and low-priced Chinese ones.

 The International Monetary Fund has warned Vietnam’s government about a growing budget deficit and public debt, largely due to a big rise in recurrent expenditure and ineffective usage of public investment.

 As many as 12,000 cars were imported in July, increasing by 30 per cent as compared to the month before, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has reported.

 After six decades of competing in the Olympics, Vietnam boasts its first ever gold medal thanks to shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh who won the men's 10m air pistol at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

 Vietnamese swimmers, weightlifters and gymnasts failed to perform to their standards on the second day of the Rio Olympics, August 7 (local time).