The HCMC Department of Taxation officially announced a series of taxes applicable to online merchants, including licence tax, value added tax, personal income tax, excise tax, and environmental protection tax (if any).

 Problems during the construction of the Vietnam's longest sea bridge slated to open to traffic in August this year have been detected.

 A trafficker in Quang Nam Province has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for selling three women to China.

 Three people have been killed and two others seriously injured when a motorbike collided with two cars on Chuong Duong Bridge in Hanoi.

 Many pavements in HCM City centre have again been adopted by business, particularly restaurants and bars.

 A family of four have been found dead in their house in Hanoi's Bac Tu Liem District after it was gutted by fire early Thursday morning.

 Quadria Capital, Asia’s leading private healthcare investor, has successfully completed its investment in the Franco-Vietnamese Hospital (FV Hospital) in HCM City.

 State employees nationwide will get three days off on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of National Day (September 2) this year.

 Chairman of HCM Stock Exchange (HOSE)’s Board of Directors Tran Van Dung was appointed as the new chairman of the State Securities Commission of Viet Nam (SSC) on Wednesday.

 Live 5G radio demo-system with Massive MIMO achieve 5G download speed (5.7Gbps) and ultra low latency was witnessed by participants at the first-ever demonstration of 5G in Viet Nam.

Vietnam is expected to export 320,000 tonnes of cashew worth US$3.3 billion this year, which represents a fall of 9.2 per cent in volume terms due to a sharp fall in harvests due to unfavourable weather.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue early this week approved a plan to arrange enterprises under the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) by 2020.

The Vietnamese consumer finance market has tremendous potential for development but its rapid growth has raised controversy over how it disadvantages and hurts people unfamiliar with it, experts noted on Wednesday.

A flood prevention project on HCM City’s Nguyen Huu Canh Street, which is frequently flooded by heavy rains and rising tides, will upgrade the drainage systems and install a pump station.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cage fishing farmers on the Bo River are distraught over an unexplained mass fish death that has caused great economic losses.

The Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival of the northern city of Hai Phong will lose national intangible heritage status if its organising process does not fulfill its safety commitments, 

Viet Nam defeated Brunei 2-1 for their second win in the ASEAN Football Federation U-15 Championship yesterday at the IPE Campus Stadium in Chonburi, Thailand.

Vietnamese and Japanese art troupes and artists will join the annual Viet Nam-Japan Culture Exchange at Da Nang’s administrative centre and the Han River port from July 27-30.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fire prevention and fighting remains a challenge for Ha Noi authorities, with many fires across the capital city leaving serious consequences.

Police have concluded that ex-banker Pham Cong Danh caused additional losses of more than VND6 trillion (US$266 million) in the second stage investigation into his case, 

Hundreds of parents have joined lucky draws to get a place for their kids at State-owned pre-schools, especially in Ha Noi’s new urban areas, due to the severe shortage of public facilities there.

Two French movies - “Un homme à la hauteur” and “Le Petit Prince” will be screened at L’Espace while the internationally co-produced drama film “Patterson” from last year will be on show at Heritage Space, Hanoi this month.

 Madonna was hailed as a "symbol of a motherly spirit" by Malawi President Peter Mutharika after the American singer opened a children's hospital named after her adopted daughter Mercy James.

The regulation that machines which have been used for more than 10 years will not be allowed to be imported to Vietnam is expected to affect Japanese FDI (foreign direct investment) in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Ly Hoang Nam and Chinese Sun Fajing came from behind to defeat Purcell Rhett from England and Stevenson Kelsey from Canada 23-6, 6-2, 13-11 in the quarter-finals of the China F12 Men’s Futures tennis tournament.