VietNamNet Bridge – Girl bands are back. Boy bands, which have dominated the music scene for years, are now taking a back seat to the rising female stars.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Owners of illegal outdoor advertising billboards in Ha Noi have been asked to remove them by September 3, or the relevant authorities will take corrective action.

 The authorities of the up-and-coming central city of Danang are now more determined to revoke the licences of slow real estate projects as well as to enforce related laws.

VietNamNet Bridge – According to the latest information from the local Internet Service Providers (ISP), normal Internet transmission in Vietnam resumed on August 24.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hospital of Cai Be District in the southern province of Tien Giang is treating a woman who lost her hearing after her husband pouring boiling water into her left ear.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On major roads in HCM City, electronic LED panels reminding people not to play Pokemon Go while driving have been installed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Only several days before the finale on August 28, three candidates withdrew from the most prestigious beauty contest in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tourist shot a video showing former British minister George Osborne fired a machine gun, with help from a tour guide at Cu Chi Tunnels, a famous relic site in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Trung, a tourist car driver in District 12 in HCM City, bought a freezer to preserve the body of his dead dog and later organized a birthday ceremony for the animal. It died one week ago.

 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on August 23 that bilateral talks between his country and China may start "within the year."

 Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd, which was blamed for mass fish deaths along the central coast earlier this year, expects to fix all of its environmental protection problems by mid-2018. 

 Miss University Vietnam, a contest which evaluates university students’ beauty, intelligence, self-confidence and virtue began on August 22 in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The environment cannot be allowed to be destroyed for the sake of socio-economic development,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People’s Court yesterday afternoon (Aug 23) sentenced two persons to death and six to life imprisonment for drug trafficking.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s cybersecurity company Bkav has warned people about ransomware, a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system till a sum of money is paid.

 The upcoming State visits to Brunei and Singapore by President Tran Dai Quang aim to realise the foreign policy set forth by the 12th Party Congress and deepen relations with the two ASEAN member countries.

 The Vietnam-Thailand Joint Working Group on Political and Security Cooperation (JWG) convened its eighth meeting in the central province of Thanh Hoa on August 24. 

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) of about US$14.4 billion was registered for new and existing projects in Viet Nam in the first eight months, according to new statistics.

 Viet Nam is likely to intensify scrutiny of income tax paid by foreign workers, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local officials said that five more gold miners were found dead because of landslides in Nam Xay commune of Lao Cai province, bringing the total number of dead to seven people.