Voters in District 4 of Ho Chi Minh City have voiced their hope that deputies at the 14th National Assembly (NA) will keep their promises made during their electioneering earlier this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Wind-power projects, which require high investment capital, remain unpopular as EVN pays a low rate for electrical power. 

 FPT Corporation has been selected as the main investor of Myanmars national financial switching system.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has approved the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam's (Vietcombank) plan to issue bonds worth VND8 trillion (US$357 million) in 2016.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAA) has slammed a VNĐ$1.16-trillion (US$52.2 million) proposal to install bird detection systems in airports, saying the payback plan was “unreasonable”.

The Vietnamese delegation to the Rio Olympic Games took part in a flag-hoisting ceremony held in the Olympic village at 6pm on August 1 (Brazil time).

 Vietnamese team pocketed eight gold, six silver and three bronze medals at the Asian Beach Ju-Jitsu Championship which wrapped up in Sri Lanka on July 31.

 US President Barack Obama has acknowledged that the Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime dispute with China using The Hague tribunal.

The Prime Minister has decided to establish Vietnamese subcommittees of intergovernmental committees with foreign countries.

Foreign investors bought 15.5 million shares in the Viglacera Corporation (VGC) out of a total of 30 million that were floated on July 28, according to the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX).

VietNamNet Bridge - Alsok will become one of the leading companies in the security industry in Vietnam this September, when it buys shares of the Hai Phong Royal Security Service.

VietNamNet Bridge – In July the stock market of Vietnam saw the highest VN-index in the last eight years. Foreign investors’ purchases in the month also reached a record high in 2016.

Korean Daewoo E&C has picked Phuoc Vinh Dong commune in the southern province of Long An as the site to construct its proposed $2.7 billion coal-fired thermal power plant.

 The latest weather news from the National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center showed that the country's second storm of this year- Nida landed in Hong Kong (China) this morning.

VietNamNet Bridge – A man named Giang Tuan Truong from Tan Tien village in Khoai Chau district of the northern province of Hung Yen owns the biggest pair of Dong Tao chicken legs in Vietnam.

  Foreign and Vietnam’s state-owned cement companies are racing to tender offers for LafargeHolcim in Vietnam’s divestment.

MOT believes Vietnam should borrow $300 million from China if it chooses Chinese contractors for the highway project, while the ministries of Planning & Investment (MPI) and Finance (MOF) say Vietnam needs to be more cautious about the project.

VietNamNet Bridge - A sociological survey by Dr Nguyen Khanh Trung has shown an interesting perspective about the difference in how Vietnamese and French parents educate their children.

Vietnamese expats in Fukuoka and Hiroshima cities of Japan and peace-loving Japanese people went on a march on July 31 to ask China to respect the recent ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

 The People’s Court of the northern border province of Lang Son has pronounced two capital and two life sentences in a drug trafficking case involving 162 bricks of heroin that weigh over 60kg in total.