Vietnam’s tea exports dropped 11% year on year in volume to 61,530 tonnes, and 6.9 percent in value to nearly $100 million as of mid-July, according to the General Department of Vietnam Custom.

Van Quat Dong fishing village on Tam Giang lagoon in Thua Thien- Hue province has attracted visitors to its peaceful and tranquil atmosphere and simple local life.

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Vietnam welcomes foreign investors, hoping that their capital and technology will help improve the country’s industry, but technology transfer has been disappointing. 

The expansion of administrative boundaries and rapid urbanization have put pressure on the network of rivers and lakes in Hanoi.

Candidates with good foreign language skills can find jobs with incomes 30-50 percent higher than those with no foreign language skills, according to Huynh Diep Tram Anh from the Van Hien University.

 This is a traditional food of the minority community in Ha Giang.

Mrs Vietnam Ao Dai 2016 Nguyen Tran Hai Duong and MC Phan Anh have been invited to work as judges for the Miss Supranational Korea 2018 pageant.

 Famous magazine Missosology selected Vietnamese representative H’Hen Nie among its top 10 hot picks for Miss Universe 2018 on August 1.

 A wide variety of books will be introduced at the 2018 Autumn Book Festival, which will take place from August 22-28 at Thong Nhat Park in Hanoi, according to the Ministry of Information and Communication.

 While the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) has been delayed until 2020, the future of the local sugar industry, with several sugar mills facing closure, remains uncertain, officials said.

 A trend of steady rises in mergers and acquisitions continues to brighten up Vietnam’s foreign investment picture in the first seven months of 2018, affirming it as one of the most effective investment channels for the high-potential market.

 Conclusions of FTAs, bilateral and multilateral alike, plus the accompanying shift of garment and textile projects from overseas to Vietnam, have become a source of concern for some local authorities.

 Viet Nam’s Thai Son Nam earned a ticket to the knockout stage of the AFC Futsal Club Championship Indonesia 2018 on August 5.

 Many transport enterprises may have to spend trillions of đồng to replace their current black box recording devices with new ones if draft regulations on transport trading are approved.

 Landslides triggered by torrential rains claimed nine lives and left six others missing in Phong Tho district of the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau.

 Vietnam aims to increase value of coffee products by processing more than 25 percent of its coffee beans by 2020, according to the Processing and Market Development Authority (AgroTrade) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 Financial institutions and research organisations at home and abroad have shown their optimism about Vietnam’s economic growth in the second half of 2018 and the whole year.

 Digital banking will be the future of the Vietnamese banking system, especially amid the development of the fourth industrial revolution, according to experts.

 The number of aircraft registered Vietnamese nationality reached 174 as of the end of July 2018, up 14 ones compared with the figure of the same period last year, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV). 

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 Pham Cong Danh, ex-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Construction Bank (VNCB), has been given a 20-year prison term for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management, causing severe consequences” at the bank.

 Additional 44 caves have been discovered in Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh, raising the total caves found so far in this area to 405, according to the park’s management board. 

 The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) rose 0.63 point to 960.23 points on August 6.