The Vietnamese Embassy in the Czech Republic has expressed deep concern about the remark on Vietnam made by Lubomir Zaoralek, Chairman of the Czech Chamber of Deputies’ Foreign Affairs Committee, at the committee’s meeting on June 21.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue on July 3 visited Sao Paulo, the largest financial and industrial hub of Brazil and the North American region, as part of his ongoing visit to Brazil.

 The mid-term Vietnam Business Forum (VBF) 2018, themed “Linkage between domestic and FDI businesses – Partnership for mutual benefit”, opened in Hanoi on July 4. 

Ca Mau Province is organizing a familiarization trip, titled, “Study on Ca Mau’s tourism destinations,” to introduce local tourism spots to tourists.

 ASEAN nations have agreed with Viet Nam’s proposals on the contents and topic of the annual ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF 2019). 

 Nine new laws will become effective on July 1, 2018, including the Law on Public Debt Management; Law on amendments and supplementations to some articles of the Law on Overseas Representative Missions of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

 L’Usine is hosting "Water is Life" art exhibition by New York-based artist Sto Len at its outlet on Dong Khoi Street and “Season Energeia” exhibition by Japanese artist Yohei Yama at L’Usine Le Thanh Ton. 

 Facebook is retiring three apps, blaming low user numbers. One, an anonymous social media app aimed at teenagers called tbh, is less than one year old.

The central bank will absolutely intervene in the forex market if problems with demand and supply affect macroeconomic stability, the governor of the central bank, Le Minh Hung, said.

The Vietnam Competition Authority has reviewed a consulting application regarding the potential monopoly created by local paper firm Saigon Paper and Japan’s Sojitz, concluding that the acquisition does not violate anti-trust law.

FPT Software has received approval of the Ministry of Transport, via a statement, to deploy an autonomous vehicle test in Saigon Hi-Tech Park, according to FPT’s website.

Vietnam and Brazil have struck a bilateral agreement on air transport, facilitating future cooperation between their airlines. The signing took place on July 2 while Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue was visiting Brazil.

Manzi Art Space will present a series of new works entitled “The Age after Divinity” by Hanoi-based surrealist Nguyen Manh Hung, whose playful, irony-laden work has been turning heads in the contemporary art scene of Vietnam.

 Despite keen interest in traffic infrastructure development projects in Vietnam, Japanese investors are unlikely to participate in public-private partnership (PPP) projects without minimum revenue guarantees.

In order to meet the demand of customers, Mobifone increased the data capacity of the basic Mobile Internet 3G/4G packages by more than 6 times from July 1 abg the prices of these packages remain unchanged.

The Minister of Education and Training reported the high school exit exam, new textbooks and sanitation in schools that the public have raised concern over recently at the conference between the government and local authorities yesterday.

 A 41-year-old man in HCM City has undergone a surgery to cut half of his lung because doctors discovered fish bone in his lung which was oozing pus causing him to cough for long time.

 HCM City would like to be given self-determination over project investment to speed up the progress of many infrastructure projects,said city Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong at a conference between the central Government and local authorities yesterday.

 Foreign investors acquired more than 40.5 trillion VND (1.74 billion USD) worth of Vietnamese equities in net value in the first six months of the year, according to the State Securities Commission of Vietnam (SSC).

The government’s refusal to extend the deadline to look for strategic investors closes the gates for foreign investors looking for a strategic stake in Vietnam Oil Corporation (PV Oil).

 Despite the 0 per cent preferential tax rate, the price of CBU cars imported from ASEAN members keeps increasing, showing that tax rates cannot replace market mechanisms to control automobile prices.

 Taxi operator Mai Linh Group will merge Mai Linh Central JSC and Mai Linh Northern JSC in an effort to streamline its cumbersome operations and concentrate resources to compete with Grab.

Under the new regulation released by the Ministry of Science & Technology (MST),  agencies, during inspections, have the right to seize products and stop production of enterprises if they discover violations in product quality. 

 Richard Swift, a former member of the Shins and touring bassist with The Black Keys, has died, aged 41.

 Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak has been arrested by anti-corruption authorities and is due to be charged on Wednesday.