A suspect has been arrested in connection with the massacre of four family members in northern mountainous Lao Cai Province during a robbery early last month, the local authority said.

 All 21 polluting factories in Dong Hung Thuan Ward in HCM City’s District 12 will be relocated or switch to other businesses before the end of the year, according to the city’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

 The planted forest area in Vietnam reached 128,800 hectares in the first eight months of this year, a year-on-year decline of 8.7 percent, due to floods in northern mountainous provinces in August.

 The French embassy and the French Development Agency (AFD) will provide a funding worth 120,000 EUR for a technical assistance project on assessing the status of the air environment in Hanoi.

A technical delegates’ meeting and draw for team sports at the fifth Asian Beach Games (ABG5) took place in central Da Nang city on September 5. 

 Temporary anti-dumping duties will be levied on some coated steel products imported from China and the Republic of Korea (RoK) from September 16, 2016 through January 13, 2017. 

 Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion has announced that his country will provide 15 million CAD to help small- and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam with initiatives and technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

 Vietnam’s leaders shared the joy of entering the 2016-2017 school year with millions of students across the country at opening ceremonies held on September 5 morning. 

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 A museum specialising in traditional medicine was opened recently in the southern province of Binh Duong, 30km from Ho Chi Minh City. 

Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion has suggested Canada, Vietnam and other signatories to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change join hands to achieve the target of limiting the planet’s warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is due to leave Hanoi on September 6 for Vientiane, the capital of Laos, to attend the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summit and related high-level meetings.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will pay an official visit to China and attend the 13th China-ASEAN Expo and the 13th China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Nanning from September 10-15. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception in Hanoi on September 5 for newly-accredited Danish Ambassador to Vietnam Charlotte Laursen. 

Vietnam wishes to enhance the multi-faceted cooperation with Canada, President Tran Dai Quang told visiting Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion in Hanoi on September 5.

Issues related to the implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and the building of the Code of Conduct (COC) will be submitted to the upcoming ASEAN-China Summit in Vientiane.

VietNamNet Bridge - A series of phishing attacks in which bank account owners lost billions of dong have cast a shadow on Vietnam’s e-commerce market, estimated to have total value of $4 billion.

French President Francois Hollande on September 5 started his three-day State visit to Vietnam at the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At his own house in Nakhon Phanom Province’s Mueang Nakhon Phanom District in Thailand, Dao Trong Ly has a private room to worship Uncle Ho and uses another as a painting studio.

The leasing term of the Da Lat - Trai Mat railway line has been brought down to 18 years from the 30 years proposed last year, according to a proposal from the Vietnam Railway Authority (VRA) approved by the Ministry of Transport.