World Shine-Hue International Resort, which was delayed in construction due to protests from residents, will be relocated to a new site and renamed Minh Vien-Lang Co. International Resort project.

 Providing the foreign Minister, and heads of Supreme People’s Procuracy and Supreme People’s Court with bodyguards was proposed in the draft Law on Guard Force which was discussed in the 14th National Assembly Standing Commitee (NASC) session.

Vice President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations has suggested US activists call on the US Government to pay more heed to decontaminating “environmental hot spots” in Vietnam and supporting local Agent Orange/dioxin victims.

 Over 1 million primary, secondary and high school students in Ho Chi Minh City started their new academic year of 2016-2017 on August 15. 

Vietnam always give highest priority to consolidating and enhancing the time-honoured friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, President Tran Dai Quang told Vice Chairman of the Lao NA Somphan Phengkhammy.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local newspapers last week reported that Apple had been looking for investment locations in Da Nang City.

 Czech furniture distributor Global Home S.R.O. has allegedly piled up millions of US dollars in debt towards Vietnamese suppliers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite warnings and punishments, enterprises have been using sophisticated methods to ignore regulations, damaging the environment and putting rivers in the Mekong Delta at risk.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese-born Americans have gained encouraging achievements with their technology firms in the US but none of the startups have reached unicorn status, or a $1billion valuation. 

HCM City authorities have been seeking solutions to easing the increasing passenger volumes at the terminals of Tan Son Nhat International Airport, which is estimated to serve 31 million passengers in 2016.

 The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) group will focus on the equitisation of three power generating corporations in its restructuring plan for 2016-2020 period, according to the group’s Chairman Duong Quang Thanh. 

 On August 9, Hanoitourist Corporation (Hanoitourist) and Korean Global Consultant Network Co., Ltd. (GCN) signed an investment co-operation agreement on developing a five-star complex of hotels, a trade centre, and a racecourse in Hanoi.

 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will hit the market on August 19 and cost VND18.99 million (US$859).

 Vietnam Satellite Digital Television VSTV (K+) has launched a special offer for new subscribers and announced that HCM City Cable Television (HTVC) is the 6th co-distributor of 4 K+ channel.

 A forum on  Big Data Innovation Summit 2016  will take place in August 26, 2016, in HCM City 

 Standard & Poor's Global Ratings has affirmed its ratings of three large Vietnamese banks.

 A large crack has appeared in National Highway 217 in the central Thanh Hoa Province’s Muon Min Commune, forcing households living nearby to shift to ensure their safety.

 At least seven people died and four were injured, while one person was missing after torrential rains hit the northern and north-central regions over the past few days.

 Residents in Block N5 of Dong Tau apartment building in Hanoi's Thinh Liet Ward are concerned about their safety after the lobby floor partially caved in last week.

 Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh was unable to pull off a miracle win against Lin Dan, the two-time Olympic champion, on the ninth competition day of the Rio 2016 Olympics, August 14 (local time).