VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City is being slowly choked by plastic waste, with 60 tonnes generated every day and only 10 per cent of them recycled.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomed San Francisco’s landmark verdict against Monsanto and called upon the company to pay compensation for Agent Orange victims in Vietnam, 

Phan Hoang Lan, Head of Planning and Finance of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation Department, talks to Hai quan newspaper 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Steamed rolls made of rice flour, locally known as banh cuon, are a popular dish across Vietnam. However, any travellers or guests visiting Cao Bang Province shouldn’t forget the local hot banh cuon,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Institute of Haematology and Blood Tranfusion (NIHBT) is desperately in need of donors who have the blood type O.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Government is 100 per cent behind supporting ethnic minority groups.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A conference about the late playwright Luu Quang Vu was held on Monday (Aug 20), honouring his significant contribution to the development of Vietnamese stage art.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With the local flood season underway a fishing net making village in Can Tho City is operating at full capacity.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Historical artefacts dating back a thousand years have been uncovered in the suburbs of Da Nang. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of toddlers have been unable to enroll at public kindergartens in Ha Tinh Province this school year due to a serious shortage of teachers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The amount of fees collected from the newly-implemented hourly on-street parking zones in HCM City were disappointing with the rate of lost revenue reaching as high as 60 per cent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 40,000 State employees have been made redundant since 2015 as part of Party and Government efforts to downsize the number of public employees.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A massive professional art performance at Trung Vuong Theatre has opened the annual National Music and Dance Festival being held in the central coastal city of Da Nang from August 21-31.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cantho Catfish beat Saigon Heat 90-70 in the first playoffs of the Viet Nam Basketball Association (VBA) League on August 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese puppeteers won first prize at the 8th Petrushka World Puppet Carnival in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Olympic team face Bahrain in the last 16 of the men’s football of the Asian Games (ASAID) 2018 in Indonesia today at 7.30pm.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For artist and sculptor Pham Sinh, his latest solo exhibition is a page in the journal documenting the unforgettable moments of a great journey.

Architect Hoang Thuc Hao won the Bui Xuan Phai Award in the Idea Prize category in 2010. He was the first Vietnamese architect to win SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia in 2016, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Photos of the anti-American war by the late photojournalist Lam Tan Tai, first general chairman of the Viet Nam Photographers Association, are on display at the HCM City Photography Museum.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Medics and police are seeing an increase in illegal drug use countrywide – and are warning users of the potential dangers associated with narcotics.