VietNamNet Bridge - Five days after typhoon Dianmu went through Hanoi, many houses in Tu Lien Ward in Tay Ho District are still flooded.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 30-year-old woman paid a friend to cut off her hand and foot so she could pretend to have been hit by a train in order to receive VND3.5 billion ($150,000) of health insurance.

Graffiti festival 2016 is the third event within the series Street Art Fair organized by Hanoi Creative City to bring street art in general and graffiti particular closer to the community

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many islets in the Mekong River have eroded seriously or even disappeared, to the regret of many former residents.

 The domestic agriculture industry should be restructured and made more transparent to develop clean food products, experts said at a seminar on developing clean food held yesterday in Ha Noi.

Indian DJ Tarang will perform for only one night at the Hanoi Intercontinental Hotel on August 27.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi’s People’s Committee has urged the People’s Committee in Soc Son District to review their management of agricultural land after local households have reportedly illegally built houses on farmland.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade has unveiled a strategy for developing rice exports in 2016-20 that targets reversing a declining trend over the last two years and increasing earnings to US$3 billion next year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An explosion at a coal gasification furnace in the central Nghe An Province‘s Trung Do Granite brick factory killed two workers, a factory manager said yesterday.

Customs officers at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport on August 25 seized one airsoft weapon along with 2,000 rounds of ammunition that had arrived hidden in shipping containers.

Last year, Quang Nam Province approved a plan to build the Ngoc Linh Ginseng Centre in Nam Tra My District.

The upcoming State visit to Brunei by President Tran Dai Quang from August 26-28 is meant to not only mark the bilateral partnership but also promote bilateral affiliation.

Top 12 finalists of Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2016 in black and white outfits have posed in the latest photo shoot.

Vietnamese pop singer Noo Phuoc Thinh will represent Vietnam to attend Asian Song Festival scheduled to take place on October 9 in the Republic of Korea.

Supermodel Ngoc Tinh has been chosen to join Mister Universal Ambassador 2016 due to transpire on September 21-30 in Indonesia.

VNPT will provide free wireless Internet signals along pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem Lake and adjacent areas under the approval of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee.

 The results of tests on seafood caught in the four central coastal provinces affected by the mass fish deaths in April will be announced in early September, according to the Health Ministry’s Food Safety Department.

 The central city of Da Nang has chosen the red-shanked douc langur as its mascot for the APEC Year to be hosted in the city in 2017.

 A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the central region of Myanmar on August 24 has killed at least one person.

 Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem has pledged all possible support for foreign investors, especially those from Japan.