Vietnam’s top female swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, 20, is now the sixth most successful Southeast Asian Games athlete of all time.

 Some flyovers have been opened to traffic recently to reduce traffic jam in streets leading to Tan Son Nhat International Aiport area but they have fallen short of expectations in HCMC.

 Earlier, numerous giants in the retail sector have entered the Vietnamese market and now, many of them are planning to enhance investment and expand their businesses to exploit market potential.

VietNamNet Bridge - Businesses in the finance and banking sector continued to prosper in the first six months of the year.

 Many large-scale investment projects and cooperation agreements have been signed for the near future, promising a breakthrough in foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction in Vietnam.

When autumn comes, Hang Ma Street in Hanoi Old Quarter is bustling with the selling and buying of Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes, traditional handmade lanterns and other toys.

 The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee will organise an auction to select investors for Vietnam’s largest stadium of 50,000 seats at Rach Chiec sports complex in the second city's District 2.

VietNamNet Bridge - The amount of bagasse, a sugarcane byproduct, that Vietnamese throw away every year could be used to generate billions of kwh of electricity.

Many people have supported MOET's decision to temporarily stop Math and English competitions because they think the competition puts pressure on teachers and students, while others believe it would be unreasonable to remove them.

VietNamNet Bridge - The land price in old quarters is quoted at nearly VND1 billion per square meter, but few plots are available for sale.

VietNamNet Bridge - A clip on Facebook showing dark waste water flowing into the My Khe sea near Da Nang has shocked the public. 

The Vietnamese government continues to publicise the portfolio of investment assets to be restructured. This time, it laid out the detailed list of state-owned enterprises marked for divestment during the 2017-2020 period. 

 The total State budget collection hit upwards $27 billion in the first eight months this year, meeting 64.4 percent of the yearly estimate and rising by 10.8 percent annually.

The rupture of two undersea cable lines Asia-America Gateway (AAG) and Intra-Asia (IA) in waters off Hong Kong’s coast on August 28 has insignificant impacts on Internet traffic in Vietnam, said domestic Internet service providers.

 Sexual imbalance at birth is increasing and is currently at a serious level in Vietnam, with the sex ratio at birth (boys per 100 girls) remaining quite high, stated a report on population and family planning, released on August 29.

 There are pay gaps among application groups, programming languages, and scope of work, according to a report from VietnamWorks and TopITworks on Salary in Information Technology in mid-2017.

 Several provinces held ceremonies on August 31 to honour local athletes who made outstanding performance when competing at the recently-concluded 29th Southeast Asia (SEA) Games in Malaysia. 

 Former chairman and director of VN Pharma JS Company Nguyen Minh Hung who has been sentenced 12 years in prison in the cancer medicine scam said that brother-in-law of Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien works for the company. 

 Police in District 2 in HCM City are investigating into complaints by residents in Thao Dien Ward that their pets have suffered from mass poisoning. 

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed to remove as much as 3,000 unnecessary business conditions that cause extra costs for many businesses.