Residents of Hanoi will be able to watch the Perseid meteor shower from 1 to 2am on Friday, with the number of meteor sightings expected to double, compared to last year.

VietNamNet Bridge – On August 9 the Supreme People's Court formally concluded that Mr. Tran Van Them, 81, was wrongfully convicted of murder and given a death sentence46 years ago.

 Vietnamese rowers Ho Thi Ly and Ta Thanh Huyen will compete in the semifinals C/D of the lightweight women’s double sculls in the Rio Olympics.

 Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have become popular in the Vietnamese market due to the country’s deeper integration into the global economy in recent years.

 The Prime Minister has given the green light to a master plan to develop e-commerce over the period 2016-2020, which will strive to build a network providing e-commerce services in all cities and provinces nationwide in the next four years.

Vietnam and Malaysia have agreed to bolster naval cooperation through increasing consultations and boosting affiliations in sea patrols, delegation exchanges and personnel training.

Japan’s Marubeni Corporation is seeking investment opportunities in coal exports, gas production, renewable energy usage and waste water treatment in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many companies have reported profit increases in the first half of 2016, a sign that the national economy is warming up, according to economists.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though many provinces and cities have decided to stop VNEN (the Vietnam Escuela Nueva) methodology, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) said VNEN will still be applied in Vietnam.

From driving accidents to distracted pedestrians and dangerous trespassing, the phenomenal success of Nintendo’s ‘Pokemon GO’ game is fuelling public safety fears throughout Hanoi.

On January 6, 2015, Air Mekong officially left the aviation market after two years of halting operation for restructuring the fleet. The failure of the airline was not only bad news for its shareholders, but also for passengers as well. 

 Entrepreneurs running around 100 start-ups will present their products and innovative ideas to convince investors to invest in their businesses at the 2016 Start-up Exchange to be held in HCM City at the end of this month.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will closely watch credit growth and direct the credit flow into production in the remaining months of this year.

 National hope Ly Hoang Nam defeated No 5 seed Chung Yunseong of South Korea in the first round match of the Vietnam F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament in Binh Duong Province.

 Olympian winner Hoang Xuan Vinh will hunt for his second gold medal, this time in the men’s 50m pistol event tonight in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

VietNamNet Bridge - After a trial run, Vietnam Tam, the Ministry of Information and Communication’s (MIC) system that measures TV viewers' habits, the first of its kind, is now officially operational.

 Vietnam’s hope for more medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro city Brazil is fading as its athletes performed poorly on August 8, the third day into the games. 

 Vietnam’s total export turnover in the first seven months of the year was 96.83 billion USD, representing an annual increase of 5.3 percent, said Duong Duy Hung, Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Planning Department.

 Ensuring cyber and information security is an urgent task as the cyber environment is increasingly exploited for such bad activities as swindling or inciting sabotage schemes against the Party and the State, said Deputy Prime Truong Hoa Binh.

The People’s Court of the northern mountainous province of Lang Son on August 9 sentenced 11 people to death over the illegal storage, transportation and trafficking of 799 cakes of heroin.