Vietnamese wushu artists bagged two more medals on August 21, the third official competition day of the ongoing 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.

 The Bat Xat Fall Festival 2018 recently opened in Muong Hum commune, Bat Xat district of the northern mountainous of Lao Cai, offering visitors a series of ethnic tribal life experience and adventure activities.

State agencies removed 39,823 officials from the pay list from 2015 to August 2018, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs’ spokesperson Vu Dang Minh.

 The UN peacekeeping sapper units of Vietnam and Japan have been exchanging experiences under a programme that officially kicked off in Hanoi on August 21. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Sustainable Energy Alliance (VSEA) and the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) kicked off the Vietnam Renewable Energy Week 2018 in Hanoi yesterday. 

 The border guard force in the central province of Nghe An said it has caught a suspect who was trafficking 3,000 synthetic drug pills from Laos to Vietnam.

 The theme “ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution” of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) is practical and meets common concern of ASEAN countries and many others around the world.

 Vietnam stood at the 17th place in the medal standings of the 18th Asian Games (ASIAD 2018) on August 21 with another two silver medals and one bronze medal but some of its golden hopes suffered failure during the day.

The 42nd Pacific Armies Management Seminar (PAMS 42), themed “Cooperation Among Indo-Asian Pacific Land Forces in Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Response”, opened in Hanoi on Monday. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Through paintings of dogs, artist Bui Hoang Duong expresses the stories of humans in society.

VietNamNet Bridge - Both state-owned and private businesses are eyeing aviation infrastructure projects, which are believed to bring high profits thanks to increasingly high travel demand.

An automatic garbage collector invented by Nguyen Quang Dieu, a fifth grader at the Vung Tau Bilingual Primary School, was displayed at the IYRC VIETNAM.

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts have warned about scrap imports heading for Vietnam as China has stopped importing some types of scrap. 

 Vietnam got two more medals on the second day of ASIAD 2018 in Indonesia, raising the country’s total medals to four but it still dropped to the 16th place in the medal tally as of 22:00 on August 20. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s top swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien booked a ticket to the final of the women’s 400m medley at the Asian Games (ASIAD) in Indonesia this morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A live show honouring motherly love and filial piety will take place on September 22 in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two music productions on mothers and children by composer Nguyen Van Chung of HCM City have been released to celebrate the annual Buddhist holiday of Vu Lan, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is reviewing the operation of the region’s biggest traditional market, Dong Ba, in a scheme to upgrade the trade centre.

 Community-based heritage conservation has not only benefited people living in the area but also proven itself as the most effective and sustainable way to safeguard heritages and promote local tourism.

An art exhibition of 259 paintings, graphic art works and sculptures has opened at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum as part of the city’s celebrations of the 73rd National Day, which falls on September 2.