Fifteen computer generated images featuring 3D modelling of Hanoi in the past will be displayed at 42 Trang Tien Street from August 30.

Woodcuts in Digital Age, which features 50 woodblock prints, series and large format pieces, by Christiane Baumgartner, as well as artists’ books and a video will open at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi from September 8 to 30.

Big fresh milk brands have declared war by launching noisy marketing campaigns in an effort to obtain more market shares in the lucrative market.

 In an effort to ease the severe shortage of parking areas in HCMC, local authorities have recommended 18 locations for developing underground and high-rise parking lots, said an official of the city’s Department of Transport.

 Total foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose to a new high in June, indicating strong international demand for U.S. government debt amid the simmering eurozone debt crisis, the U.S. Treasury Department reported Wednesday.

 Nearly 30 hydropower plants are scheduled to be built along the Mekong River within the next few years, which will upturn the lives of tens of millions of local residents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A wide range of cultural and sporting events will be held across the country to mark the 67th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day (September 2).

 Current World No 1 tennis player Victoria Azarenka will join the Heineken Star tennis tournament due to open in Ho Chi Minh City on September 20, according to a domestic source of information.     

  The country’s two leading telecommunications companies VNPT and Viettel will team up with Facebook and 10 other Asian telcos to invest in a 10,000km undersea cable project.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A semi-professional Muay Thai Tournament will be held in HCM City's Nguyen Du Gymnasium on September 16.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Van Duan of Eximbank HCM City 1 won the third stage of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Cycling Tournament yesterday, while his teammate Dinh Quoc Viet retained the yellow jersey.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The third volume of ‘Cuoc Chien Voi Hanh Tinh Fantom’ (Fight against Fantom Planet) a science fiction novel written by 11-year-old schoolboy Nguyen Binh has recently been published by the Tre (Youth) Publishing House.

 Passengers, including foreigners, aboard a hydrofoil from Ho Chi Minh City to the coastal city of Vung Tau yesterday received a shock when one of the glass windows on the vessel was broken, letting water in.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An intensifying tropical storm called Kai-Tak hit the north-eastern East Sea yesterday, Aug 15. An alert has been issued to all boats operating on the sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – President Truong Tan Sang gave separate receptions in Hanoi on August 15 for new ambassadors of Singapore, the Gabonese Republic, Sierra Leon, Micronesia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan who presented him their credentials.

 VN, Cambodia speed up drug fight cooperation; Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Police Academy under construction; Vietnam, Singapore trade unions boost ties

It’s very difficult for English teachers to meet the international standards, and it would be not easy for the Ministry of Education and Training to standardize the English teaching staff.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Plant Protection Agency has confirmed that pesticide residues in imported Chinese grapes are five times higher than Vietnamese safety threashold.

After giving a nod to a series of steel made car parking lots in many areas, the Hanoi authorities are now considering setting up car parking lots in parks or public flower gardens.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese government will create the best possible conditions for Japanese businesses to invest in Vietnam, says Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.