The Ministry of Finance has proposed removing tax exemptions for cars and motorcycles that overseas Vietnamese, or Viet Kieu.

 Pollution has caused the deaths of 72,000 fish in the south central coastal province of Phu Yen over the past month.

 Vietnam dominated the Southeast Asian Fencing Federation Championships’ men’s individual sabre event in Singapore on September 4.

 Vietnam’s women players tied with title candidate China 2-2 in the third round match of the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaizan, yesterday.

 Gaston Merlo is favoured to win the title of  "best scorer" this season after the 24th round match of the V.League last weekend.

 Nguyen Thuy Linh received a bronze medal at the Asian Wushu Championships in Chinese Taipei on September 4.

 Tran Quyet Chien finished in second place at the Guri Carom Billiards 3-Cushion World Cup in South Korea, which ended on September 4.

 Vietnam's Thong Tin Lien Viet Post Bank topped the Pool A of the Asian Volleyball Confederation Women’s Club Championships after their second win yesterday in Binan City, the Philippines.

Artworks by students from six secondary schools in Hanoi's are showing for the first time at an international exhibition titled Rivers of the World in Vietnam’s capital and London.

 A suspect has been arrested in connection with the massacre of four family members in northern mountainous Lao Cai Province during a robbery early last month, the local authority said.

 All 21 polluting factories in Dong Hung Thuan Ward in HCM City’s District 12 will be relocated or switch to other businesses before the end of the year, according to the city’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

 The planted forest area in Vietnam reached 128,800 hectares in the first eight months of this year, a year-on-year decline of 8.7 percent, due to floods in northern mountainous provinces in August.

 The French embassy and the French Development Agency (AFD) will provide a funding worth 120,000 EUR for a technical assistance project on assessing the status of the air environment in Hanoi.

A technical delegates’ meeting and draw for team sports at the fifth Asian Beach Games (ABG5) took place in central Da Nang city on September 5. 

 Temporary anti-dumping duties will be levied on some coated steel products imported from China and the Republic of Korea (RoK) from September 16, 2016 through January 13, 2017. 

 Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion has announced that his country will provide 15 million CAD to help small- and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam with initiatives and technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

 Vietnam’s leaders shared the joy of entering the 2016-2017 school year with millions of students across the country at opening ceremonies held on September 5 morning. 

 A museum specialising in traditional medicine was opened recently in the southern province of Binh Duong, 30km from Ho Chi Minh City. 

Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion has suggested Canada, Vietnam and other signatories to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change join hands to achieve the target of limiting the planet’s warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is due to leave Hanoi on September 6 for Vientiane, the capital of Laos, to attend the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summit and related high-level meetings.