Viet Nam's star badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh, secured a place in the third round of the Total Badminton World Federation World Championship in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday.

  Ly Hoang Nam was disqualified from the Egypt F26 Futures tournament after the first match of the main round on August 13.

 Ha Noi will honour 98 outstanding students who achieved top results in the city's university and academy graduation exams, a press conference has heard.

 The Viet Nam Department of Drug Prevention and Control and soldiers in this northern province, along with their Lao partners, have smashed a drug-smuggling ring operating across the Viet Nam-Laos border.

VietNamNet Bridge - Specialized bicycles were handed over to police forces in 12 districts in Hanoi on August 12 as part of the city’s pilot plan to patrol by bicycle in an aim to create a friendlier public image.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The romantic wharf on the banks of Han River attracts many young people and tourists who come to visit and take pictures. Many couples have also left their "locks of love” on this pier.

 China has set the guiding rate for its yuan currency lower for a third consecutive day. But Thursday's rate of 1% down against the dollar was a smaller margin than the shock cuts earlier in the week.

VietNamNet Bridge – A young couple, their son and the wife’s sister, all of Village 16, Lam Giang Commune, Van Yen District, in the northern province of Yen Bai, were found dead on the evening of  August 12.

 At least 44 people are now known to have died, and more than 500 injured, following two major explosions in China's northern port city of Tianjin.

 Severe flooding in northern Quang Ninh Province was a result of years of substandard coal mining in the area, experts said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has proposed expanding Phu Quoc International Airport to meet increasing demand for air travel to and from the resort island of the same name off mainland Kien Giang Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – A recent uptick in illegal logging and gold mining operations have affected several mountains and hills located in Phu Ninh lake resort in central Quang Nam Province, one of the largest irrigation reservoirs in Viet Nam

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has said that if the minimum regional wage increases by more than 10 percent, an increasing number of businesses will dissolve. 

 Choir Festival to honour 1945 revolution, Music Story of the Old Quarter out today, Artist Sac to unveil new paintings, London-based DJ debuts at Observatory, Rapper, Japanese DJ hit Chill Sky Bar

 VietNamNet Bridge – Wild, unspoiled places in the central province of Binh Phuoc worth visiting:

 VietNamNet Bridge – A seven-year-old boy was seriously injured after falling from the balcony of a 10th-floor apartment on Tuesday in Hong Mai District, Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lana Condor, an actress of Vietnamese origin, will be part of the group of superheroes in the upcoming sequel of the successful Hollywood film franchise X-Men.

 Massive explosions have hit China's northern city of Tianjin, leaving at least 17 people dead and hundreds more injured.

 The British trance trio Above & Beyond will take the stage at a one-night only show next month at the Ho Tram Resort Casino Viet Nam, Asia's only beachfront integrated resort.

 Germany’s Metro AG will stay in Vietnam by launching a new business after it sells its wholesale store chain to a Thai firm.