VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam, which is located on the lower course of the Mekong River, is expected to see fish resources decline and erosion and saline intrusion increase because of the new hydropower plant in Laos.

VietNamNet Bridge - Rents of hundreds of millions of dong a month have forced many coffee chains to leave the market.

VietNamNet Bridge - With the same number of video followers, the revenue that content owners and suppliers can earn when posting video on YourTV will be eight times higher than on Youtube.

The Government has planned to invest over $6.59 billion in the Central Highlands in 2016-2020, mostly in building and upgrading irrigation and water supply facilities for drought prevention and control, and transportation system. 

 Investigation agencies have arrested five loggers suspected of illegal logging in La Dee Commune in Nam Giang District last month, Colonel Huynh Song Thu, deputy director of the provincial Public Security Department told a press conference yesterday.

The private Hanoi Business and Technology University has been told to stop training general practitioners after the school called up students who got an 18 score on the national high-school finals. 

 HCM City Wings set a Vietnam Basketball Association league record for points after beating Da Nang Dragons 94-79 on August 24 on home turf in HCM City.

 Demand for IT security experts is increasing while there is already a short supply, resulting in increasing cyber attacks around the world.

 The HCM City government yesterday ordered an investigation into a complaint by a businesswomen that US$1.17 million from her account in Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VP Bank) went missing last year.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the US-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC) to help Vietnamese enterprises improve their competitiveness and advise his Government on steering the national development. 

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc showed his support for cooperation in satellite technology, aviation, railways development in Hanoi, education and culture with France at his meeting French Ambassador to Vietnam Jean Noel Poirier on August 25.

 President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse left Hanoi on the morning of August 26 for a State-level visit to Brunei from August 26-28 at the invitation of King Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah.

 President Tran Dai Quang has urged Vietnamese representative offices abroad to continue prioritising matters that serve Vietnam’s sustainable development and raise the country’s position in the world arena.

VietNamNet Bridge – In Southeast Asia, Vietnam is becoming an attractive tourist destination as shown by impressive hotel occupancy rates, which reached 75% this June in Hanoi, the highest in the last five years, reported CBRE.

Businesses operating in industrial and economic zones (IZs and EZs) exported nearly US$53.5 billion worth of commodities in the first seven months of 2016, contributing over 50% to Vietnam’s export revenue.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Five days after typhoon Dianmu went through Hanoi, many houses in Tu Lien Ward in Tay Ho District are still flooded.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 30-year-old woman paid a friend to cut off her hand and foot so she could pretend to have been hit by a train in order to receive VND3.5 billion ($150,000) of health insurance.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many islets in the Mekong River have eroded seriously or even disappeared, to the regret of many former residents.

 The domestic agriculture industry should be restructured and made more transparent to develop clean food products, experts said at a seminar on developing clean food held yesterday in Ha Noi.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade has unveiled a strategy for developing rice exports in 2016-20 that targets reversing a declining trend over the last two years and increasing earnings to US$3 billion next year.