The Ministry of Industry and Trade is keeping a close watch on the impact of China’s sharp yuan devaluation on the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the local dong currency and on Vietnam’s foreign trade.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Referee Takuto Okabe has been invited to supervise a match of V.League 1's round 21 this weekend.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a technical assistance project named ‘Vietnam Climate Innovation Centre’ (VCIC) funded by the World Bank.

 The organizational board of a short film cartoon contest yesterday announced three best cartoons to join in International Cartoon Festival at Chuncheon in South Korea in September.

Certiport, the leading test delivery solution provider for the global workforce and academic markets, which has just announced winners at the 2015 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship yesterday.

 Vingroup announced on August 12 that it will establish the Vinpearl Hotel Management Company and a unified Vinpearl brand for its resorts and hotels.

 Uber users in the central city of Danang will be able to access the Uber app and request a helicopter ride with “UberCHOPPER” to join a free 15-minute flight around the city, according to Uber Technologies Inc.

 Greece's parliament has backed draft terms for a third bailout in five years after talks that lasted through the night and well into the morning.

 The greenback rates soared in the flea market and touched a new ceiling price in commercial banks yesterday as China devalued its currency for the third time in three days.

 Doctors at the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion successfully conducted a stem cell transplant to save a three-year-old boy suffering from thalassemia on Wednesday, the institute said yesterday.

Customs officers and anti-smuggling forces on August 13 confiscated 735 kilogrammes of elephant ivory and rhino horns smuggled through Tien Sa port in the central city of Da Nang.

Salt intrusion threatens livelihoods in Ca Mau, Quang Ngai seeks to improve provincial disaster response team, Can Tho: 13,000 households lack electricity, Course helps rangers combat wildlife crime

 Fires are still burning at the site of two massive explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin, some 36 hours after the blasts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The second Vietnam-Republic of Korea (RoK) cartoon festival kicked off in Hanoi on August 13, serving as a bridge between cartoon makers and lovers from the two countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A detail planning for the National Sports Complex integrated with shopping, convention and tourism centres in Nam Tu Liem District was unveiled by the Hanoi Department of Planning and Architecture

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vocational training programmes for rural workers in Viet Nam have largely failed to help participants find work because of a lack of coordination with industry, a high-ranking congressman said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Transimex–Saigon JSC began construction of a bonded warehouse and logistics centre on a 10ha area at the Sai Gon Hi-tech Park in HCM City on Wednesday.

 More than 400 households in Nhan Co commune in the Dak R'Lap District of Dak Nong Province are complaining that their main road has been incorporated into the Nhan Co industrial complex.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly 600 Vietnamese people have asked for amendments to their personal identity papers after transgender surgery.

VietNamNet Bridge - Removing import tariffs on car imports from Japan is an important issue put on the table of the ongoing negotiations for Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).