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.

 The Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park (HHTP) is calling for projects on researching, applying and developing advanced technologies in a bid to help foster hi-tech industries nationwide.

 The central province of Quang Nam on August 25 publicised an antiquity recently recognised as a national treasure and some pieces of the national intangible cultural heritage.

 More than 200 photos and 100 documentaries featuring Vietnam are to be shown at an exhibition in Moscow, Russia.

 Over 1-trillion-VND MDF factory built in Bac Kan, Consumer confidence falls in August, HCM City: Economy grows stably in August, Farming bivalve molluscs for export favourable in Vietnam, Anti-dumping review request on imported steel welcomed

 Austrian officials now say more than 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway.

 User feedback improves public service, Hanoi gears up for National Day celebrations, Residents affected by Son La power plant see improved livelihood, Hanoi opens new waste treatment plant, Ho Chi Minh City reveals 28,000 vacancies in September

  The country's crude oil export value fell sharply by nearly 2.5 billion USD in January-August 15 due to the slumping global oil price, according to the General Department of Customs.

 Viet Nam will have eight representatives taking part in an athletics tournament in Thailand on September 6-9.

 The Tokyo-based outsourcing giant Transcosmos has acquired a 30 percent stake in Hotdeal Co Ltd, which owns Vietnam's largest e-commerce marketplace hotdeal.vn, a representative of the Japanese company in Vietnam told Viet Nam News.

 Tumbling stocks and gold prices may drive investors away to the real estate market as property is traditionally a favourite channel for investment in Vietnam compared to gold, stocks and bank savings.