VietNamNet Bridge – The Hospital of Cai Be District in the southern province of Tien Giang is treating a woman who lost her hearing after her husband pouring boiling water into her left ear.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On major roads in HCM City, electronic LED panels reminding people not to play Pokemon Go while driving have been installed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tourist shot a video showing former British minister George Osborne fired a machine gun, with help from a tour guide at Cu Chi Tunnels, a famous relic site in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Trung, a tourist car driver in District 12 in HCM City, bought a freezer to preserve the body of his dead dog and later organized a birthday ceremony for the animal. It died one week ago.

 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on August 23 that bilateral talks between his country and China may start "within the year."

 Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd, which was blamed for mass fish deaths along the central coast earlier this year, expects to fix all of its environmental protection problems by mid-2018. 

 The upcoming State visits to Brunei and Singapore by President Tran Dai Quang aim to realise the foreign policy set forth by the 12th Party Congress and deepen relations with the two ASEAN member countries.

 The Vietnam-Thailand Joint Working Group on Political and Security Cooperation (JWG) convened its eighth meeting in the central province of Thanh Hoa on August 24. 

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) of about US$14.4 billion was registered for new and existing projects in Viet Nam in the first eight months, according to new statistics.

 Viet Nam is likely to intensify scrutiny of income tax paid by foreign workers, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local officials said that five more gold miners were found dead because of landslides in Nam Xay commune of Lao Cai province, bringing the total number of dead to seven people.

VietNamNet Bridge – Some rich people in Vietnam have a special habit of collecting furniture made of rare ironwood, ebony, red sua, ngoc am ... worth billion VND.

VietNamNet Bridge - Since Vietnam heavily relies on China, a major import/export market, it has encountered difficulties as China has tightened cross-border imports and set barriers to Vietnamese farm produce. 

 The two foreign Vietjet pilots suspected of trafficking narcotics have been cleared of any suspicion, the carrier said in its latest press release. 

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has suggested the Government move on with a major plan to equitize State-run commercial banks, saying that the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) should go public from now to 2020.

VietNamNet Bridge - Universities have been told to become independent from the state and determine their destinies, but they have not been given the right to make decisions.

 The Prime Minister has approved a comprehensive plan for developing e-commerce in the 2016-2020 period with specific targets set, according to Decision No. 1563.

Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry, a group which favors same-sex marriage in the U.S., on August 22 had a meeting with local students and audiences at the American Center in HCMC’s District 1.

VietNamNet Bridge - Sources say that FPT Shop, which has announced that it is seeking investors, has met foreign partners who are well-known in the business world. 

 The image of local government workers cycling around Hoan Kiem Lake to collect rubbish has become more familiar to Hanoians.