VietNamNet Bridge - Consultants and experts have recommended that Vietnam take measures to prevent foreign-invested projects from using outdated technologies, causing pollution and consuming national resources.

Agencies are planning to build an environmental monitoring system to control possible radioactive substance leakage from large-capacity energy reactors built by the Chinese and located 300 kilometers from Hanoi.

 G.O. Max I&D of South Korea is still committed to develop the horse racing course in the northern province of Vinh Phuc, even though the decree on sports betting has continued to be delayed. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Leading Vietnamese fashion designer Minh Hạnh will showcase her new collection at the Albert Kahn Museum and Gardens in Paris on Thursday.

 “Market mechanisms will not solve pollution issues, only a State mechanism will,” Mr. Le Dang Doanh, senior economic expert, told Vietnam Economic Times' Investment Attraction and Sustainable Development workshop held on September 20 in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The large-spotted civet species recently discovered in the Phong Dien Nature Reserve in Hue city was previously considered to be extinct in Vietnam and China by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

 VietNamNet Bridge - Thanh Hoa authorities have informed the central government that information posted on social networks about the province’s Part Chief Trinh Van Chien personal life is inaccurate. 

 A plan from the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) to use State funds to settle the bad debts of commercial banks has received a mixed response from economic experts.

 Vietnam’s famous model Ha Anh, Miss Global 2005 Natalie Glebova, Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri and world’s renowned Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao have been invited to serve as judges at the final round of Miss Global 2016.

 PCCW Media Group from Hong Kong is ramping up its presence in the region with the launch of the MOOV music app on September 19 in Hanoi, in partnership with telecommunications services provider Vietnamobile.

 Hanoi drivers face the worst congestion in the nation and spend countless hours per year stuck in traffic delays - but the commute to work on the morning of September 20 was even worse than usual.

  Investors signed contracts and memoranda of understanding worth VND274.22 trillion (US$12.85 billion) with Hai Phong's authorities, as an investment promotion conference concluded in this northern port city on Monday.

 The central city of Da Nang has decided to prosecute officials allegedly responsible for illegal logging in a nature reserve on Son Tra Peninsula.

Indicators relating to the sea water quality in Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue provinces are mostly within allowable limits, with the contents of iron, phenol and cyanide declining remarkably.

 Nearly 4,600 coaches and athletes from 45 countries and territories will participate in the 5th Asian Beach Games (ABG5) in the central coastal city of Da Nang from September 24 to October 3.

  Two ”bop” trees aged over 250 years in Ha Lang village, Quang Dien district of central Thua Thien-Hue province have been recognised as Vietnam’s heritage trees. 

 Twenty-one big projectiles recently found in a garden in Huong Hoa district, the central province of Quang Tri, have been successfully defused and removed. 

 Danish and Vietnamese legislators have shared their experience and skills in lawmaking and supervision activities at a roundtable discussion in northern Ninh Binh province during their visit on September 20-21.

 Tay Ninh has brought to trial 278 economic and corruption cases with 485 defendants since the Politburo’s Instruction on strengthening Party leadership over the discovery and settlement of corruption cases was issued on December 7, 2015. 

 Vietnam worked actively at the 17th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to hold firm to the NAM’s orientations amidst the current complex global situation, Deputy Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc told the press.