Local authorities in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh will try and enforce and end to destructive fishing practices.

 Taxis in Hanoi must be painted the same colour from 2025 for better management according to the city's transport department.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) last week issued Decision No. 3044/QĐ-BCT to apply safeguard measures on some DAP and MAP fertiliser products imported into Viet Nam.

An electrical short-circuit has been blamed for the fire that destroyed a major church in the northern province of Nam Dinh on Saturday night.

VietNamNet Bridge - Banks are rushing to list shares on the stock market by the year-end.

 The SP2 train, which runs from the northern mountainous Lao Cai Province to Hanoi, derailed early on Monday at Hanoi's Yen Vien station, but there were no casualties.

 Vietnam topped the World Vovinam (a Vietnamese martial art form) Championships, which concluded in New Delhi, India, on August 5.

 An art photography project, I Femme, has been launched to help poor girls access education and to fund schools for poor children in Viet Nam, India and Nepal.

Vietnam will impose a ban on all kinds of antibiotics in livestock farming after 2020, and those currently used in animal feed are only allowed until the end of this year.

The Vietnam Rivers Network on August 2 proposed the Prime Minister immediately cancel an urban development project that aims to encroach on a section of the Dong Nai River due to numerous potential consequences. 

 Hanoi book street has recently become one of the favorite destinations for Hanoi’s readers since its launch three months ago.

 Vietnam is leading the world on the rate of people living with diabetes accounting for 5.4 percent of the country’s population or five million people.

 The HCMC Department of Transport has announced that all vehicles will be banned in many streets in Districts 1 and 4 starting August 8 for celebration activities of ASEAN’s 50th founding anniversary.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japan’s Izawa Satoshi clocked a time of 2hr 39.53min to win the men’s 42km race at the fifth annual Manulife Da Nang International Marathon on Sunday.

BTC-E, a large virtual currency trading floor sudden ‘closure for maintenance’ has  caused anxiety among many Vietnamese investors about the fate of their billions of dong stuck at the floor.

Die Fledermaus (The Bat), an operetta by Johann Strauss II, will open the biennial Autumn Melodies arts festival in HCM City, to be held from August 19-27.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Ha Tinh has asked the Government not to resume activities of the Thach Khe iron mine, the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some expensive construction works built within the new rural development programme in Ha Noi have either never been used or are rarely used.

Rampant deforestation in the Central Highlands left to fester for many years by forestry authorities’ negligence has cost the region hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest, 

Ha Noi resident Nguyen Phung Hung didn’t get into his first choice university, Ha Noi Medical University, despite a high score of 29.25 points in the national high school exam.