A highlight of the many cultural activities held on National Day, September 2, will be the national concert Dieu Con Mai (Remaining with Time), which features well-known revolutionary songs.

Female Malaysian and Vietnamese artists shared their take on feminism and other pressing social issues at the first joint exhibition being held in downtown Hanoi.

Vietnam will have eight representatives taking part in an athletics tournament in Thailand on September 6-9.

Vietnam grabbed two bronze medals at the World Xiangqi (Chinese chess) Championships which wrapped up in Germany on August 27.

The high rate of educated workers and their capacity to rapidly adapt to new jobs are advantages HCM City can rely on when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) comes into being at the end of this year, but the city's human resources need to improve their English and professional skills, a recent workshop heard.

Ho Chi Minh City has sustained steady economic growth in August though hit by a spate of difficulties, the municipal People’s Committee said at a meeting discussing local socio-economic situation on August 27.

The competitive power generation market would become operational expeditiously by 2018, together with the pilot implementation of competitive wholesale power market.

The ANZ-Roy Morgan Vietnam Consumer Confidence Index slid 4.9 points to 133.7 in August over July, caused by weaker sentiment across all components in a monthly survey.

National Assembly deputies discussed amendments to the Civil Procedure Code at a meeting on August 25 in the capital.

"Vietnam actively took action to prevent diseases that could be transmitted from animals to humans", said Nguyen Thanh Long, Deputy Health Minister at an international health conference on August 25 in Hanoi.