Vietnam targets US$300 billion export turnover by 2020, India pours US$400 mil in 101 projects in Vietnam, Foreign suppliers may have to build seed factories in Vietnam, EVN earns US$43.6 million from divestment

 Apple Inc. has chosen FPT Shop and The gioi di dong (Mobile World) as its two main retailers to directly import its hi-tech products from Apple Singapore.

 The Ministry of Transport has asked the Government to permit pilot implementation of a project to apply information technology in the management of contract-based passenger transportation (Grabcar) developed by GrabTaxi Vietnam.

 The crew of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) wrapped up their 10-day visit in Da Nang, Vietnam Aug. 28, completing the ship’s last mission stop of Pacific Partnership 2015.

 Viet Nam grabbed two bronze medals at the World Xiangqi (Chinese chess) Championships which wrapped up in Germany yesterday.

 For the first time over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg.

VietNamNet Bridge - Bank shares and state-owned enterprises’ (SOEs) IPOs (initial public offering) have become highly attractive to foreign investors. 

 The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade will launch its first online shopping day on Saturday on the website www.khuyenmaitructuyenhcm.gov.vn in an aim to enhance trust among consumers.

 Six companies have been fined a total of VND535 million (US$23,732) for sending spam messages promoting gambling and providing illegal digital services.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Airport Corporation of Viet Nam (ACV) to be investor of the Long Thanh International Airport in the southern Dong Nai Province.

 Doctors at the HCM City University Medical Centre have saved the life of a baby born with its heart outside the chest cavity, the first such operation in the country.

 HCM City People' Council has rejected a proposal made by the city government to clear 500sq.m of forest in Can Gio Biosphere Reserve to build a forest protection station.

 There have been serious shortcomings in management of forestry and farming enterprises. So said the national assembly's deputies during a meeting yesterday to review the management of Viet Nam's forest and farming from 2004-2014.

  The National Traffic Safety Committee has said 12 hotlines will receive pubic feedback about traffic safety during National Day (September 2) and the beginning of the new school year.

Book lovers will have a chance to buy rare second-hand books at a special festival to be held in the capital this weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many contagious diseases can appear and spread out on a large scale in the coming school year, such as dengue fever, hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease, flu and newly emerging catastrophic diseases like MERS-CoV and Ebola,

 French newspaper Le Figaro has cited Tra Que village in Hoi An ancient town and culture of ethnic minority groups in the northwestern mountainous areas equally as attractive as Ha Long Bay and Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral.

 Forest officers in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has found the carcasses of five endangered douc langurs in a forest but no poachers inside.

 A geological park featuring the largest volcanic cavern system in Southeast Asia is expected to open in 2016 in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.

 Hundreds of people are feared dead after two boats carrying about 500 migrants sank off Libya, officials say.