Ho Chi Minh City will host the Mobile Game Asia 2015 for the first time which is scheduled to take place at Windsor Plaza Hotel on July 9-10.

Vietnam and the US adopted on July 7 a joint vision statement between the two countries on the occasion of the official visit to the US by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong from July 6-10.

 US Ambassador for Religion Freedom David Saperstein and the first US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Robert Seiple have applauded the great significance of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s US visit.

 The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) on July 7 revealed a detailed schedule on activities of players from England’s Premier League football club, Manchester City in Hanoi.

 Two collections of Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional long dress) by designer Si Hoang will be showcased in the “Mot Thoang Vietnam” programme in New York this month.

 Vietnam are still holding the No 1 spot in the Southeast Asian Games, according to FIFA's June ranking release.

 The eurozone has given Greece until Thursday to present new proposals to secure a deal with creditors, and has called a full EU summit for Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2015 National Theatrical Arts Contest, which concluded on Monday, showed not just the diversity of Viet Nam's performing arts community, but also the problems that have been facing it for decades.

  Average room rates in upscale hotels and resorts across Viet Nam saw a slight increase in 2014 even as occupancy rates decreased, according to a survey by auditing and consulting firm Grant Thornton.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) took over Global Petrol Bank yesterday, after the bank failed to meet a deadline to have secured legal capital requirements.

The International Monetary Fund has warned the US Federal Reserve against raising interest rates this year. 

 According to the goal of the Ministry of Transport, the international airport of Long Thanh must be built soon, Mr. Le Manh Hung, General Director of the Aviation Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) told VietNamNet.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Within three days, July 3-5, the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases admitted five cases of streptococcus suis, two of them were dead. All of them caught the disease after eating tiet canh (pig blood pudding).

 Local exporters are seeing their products exported to the European market less competitive as the euro has dipped against the US dollar due to the Greece debt crisis.

 The Nhi Dong 1 Hospital is working with the city’s Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease Society and several lower-level hospitals to establish a network for treatment and management of congenital heart diseases across southern Vietnam.

 The Prime Minister has approved Vietnam’s participation in a regional project funded by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) as part of efforts to implement the Stockholm Convention of Persistent Organic Pollutants.

 Over 500 foreign and domestic scientists, lecturers and post graduates joined the national bio-technology conference held in the central coastal city of Da Nang on July 7.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi People's Council has received 257 questions from municipal voters, mostly reflecting hot issues, ahead of its three day meeting this week.

NA Judicial Committee gathers in Hanoi, Top legislator meets with voters in Ha Tinh, President inspects socio-economic situation in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam, DPRK foster legislative cooperation

 Selected boys from the 2015 U13 school football festival will be offered a trip to Japan from August 17-21 by the Yamaha Motor Vietnam Company, according to the Vietnam Football Federation.

 A high-level delegation from the Supreme People's Court led by Chief Justice Truong Hoa Binh paid a working visit to Slovakia from July 5-8 to share justice experience with their Slovakian counterparts.

What will happen to Vietnam’s economy wad  be a question that many Vietnamese people raised at the historical moment when the US President Bill Clinton declared the lifting of the embargo against Vietnam, at 5 am  February 4, 1994, Hanoi time.

 Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan and her Lao counterpart Bounnhang Vorachith underscored the importance of fostering the two countries’ traditional friendship and comprehensive cooperation at their meeting on July 7 in Hanoi.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and US President Barrack Obama held talks at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in the morning of July 7 (local time).

VietNamNet Bridge – Those who assert that the secrets to the future always lie in the past have a bit of a problem when it comes to pontificating on the future of Vietnamese business with the US.