VietNamNet Bridge - Residents in HCM City's Phu My Hung area in district 7 and in Binh Chanh and Nha Be districts have asked local authorities to help control the bad odor affecting the areas. 

VietNamNet Bridge - While universities struggle to search for students for the new academic year, prestigious vocational schools have nearly fulfilled their enrollment plans. 

VietNamNet Bridge - It is still too early to say how the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) has affected Vietnam's economy. In the last eight months, since the AEC took shape, Vietnam has encountered many difficulties.

  Potential threats to the nation's economic sovereignty, natural environment and social fabric should be limited to the maximum extent possible, a foreign investment expert has said.

 The Vietnam Space Technology Museum inside the Space Technology Centre, located in Hanoi’s Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, is scheduled to open to the public in late 2017.

Tran Bac Ha, former chairman of the management board, will no longer represent the 40 per cent state stake in BIDV following his retirement on September 1.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan and Cambodian Minister of Post and Telecommunication Tram Iv Tek held talks in Hanoi on September 8 to seek stronger cooperation.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong met with General Secretary of Mexico’s Labour Party (PT) Alberto Gutierrez, who is on a working visit to Vietnam, in Hanoi on September 7. 

 The UK appreciates Vietnam’s role and position in the region and wishes to promote defence ties with the Southeast Asian country, Minister of State for the Defence Ministry of the UK Earl Howe told Vietnamese Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh.

 Vietnam and Bhutan share many similarities in culture, history and religion, which is a solid foundation for bilateral relations to develop, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has said. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had fringe meetings with his Japanese and New Zealand counterparts on September 7 at the 28th & 29th ASEAN Summits and related meetings now underway in Vientiane.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has announced a loss of VND123.7 billion in the second quarter, the first time since its establishment. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The massive Chinese investment in Vietnam’s wooden furniture manufacturing may put Vietnam at a high risk of anti-dumping lawsuits.

VietNamNet Bridge – A drainage renovation project has turned Kinh Duong Vuong into HCM City’s most polluted road.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Profits from January to August 2016 of telecom giants in Vietnam show that Viettel took the lead.

Two weeks before the Full Moon festival, plastic guns, horror masks, swords, and knives are being displayed at shops and along the pavement of Hang Ma Street, the famous market for toys and decorative items in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - Becamex ITC has registered to invest in a software park in Hanoi for VND24 trillion ($1.1 billion).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Directors of state departments, chairs of districts, towns and communes in Hanoi will receive smart devices to work online.

Bitexco Energy Corporation has completed acquisition of six hydroelectric plants in Vietnam of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, with a total capacity of 200 MW, reports the Laborer Newspaper.

In the next few years, Vietnamese banks are expected to offer more advanced financial services in response to customers’ changing needs, said SiddiqBazarwala, publisher from financial magazine Alpha Southeast Asia.