An ongoing visit to the US by Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong could be a turning point in the 20-year diplomatic relations between the two countries, Gregory Poling from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies said.

 A study of people born within a year of each other has uncovered a huge gulf in the speed at which their bodies age.

VietNamNet Bridge - Are Japanese too slow to march towards the Vietnamese real estate market? The current merger & acquisition (M&A) wave indicates the answer is ‘no’.

 England’s Premier League football club Manchester City on July 6 agreed to sign a contract with the Vietnam Football Federation and the Saigon-Da Nang Bank for a trip to Vietnam.

  Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Sen. Lieut. Gen. Do Ba Ty received visiting Commander of the Royal Cambodian Air Force Soeung Samnang in Hanoi on July 6, reported Quan doi Nhan dan newspaper. 

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 A ceremony to hand over the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to Vietnam Airlines by Boeing company was held at Ronald Reagan Airport on July 7 in the presence of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong who is in the US for an official visit.

  Viet Nam had 29.1 million 3G subscribers, a 29.6 per cent year-on-year increase, as of June 2015, a report by the General Statistics Office of Viet Nam said.

  Provisional funds for bad debts whittled away significant profits of the Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam, or Vietcombank, during the first half of this year.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Ambassador to Russia Nguyen Thanh Son on July 6 discussed with Moscow oblast (provincial) leaders measures to boost investment cooperation.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed to the Prime Minister to raise forest environment service fees on companies producing drinking water and hydroelectricity.  

US private equity firm KKR & Co, formerly known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co LP, sold half of its holdings in Viet Nam's leading consumer goods company Masan Consumer.

  Professional foreign belly-dancers will join the judging panel of the second Vietnam Belly Dance Festival held by Saigon Belly Dance at SC Vivo City shopping center in HCMC’s District 7 on July 11-12.

 Asian markets traded higher on Tuesday, recovering losses made a day earlier on fears that Greece would exit the eurozone, after voting no to bailout conditions from creditors.

Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong and US Trade Representative Michael Froman expressed a desire to accelerate an early conclusion of the TPP negotiations at a July 6 meeting as part of Trong's ongoing trip to the US.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the building of a US$1 billion "ecological" complex on Vu Yen Island in northern Hai Phong City.

 The success of Viet Nam's push to build "new-style rural areas" depends crucially on developing transport infrastructure, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh said at a teleconference yesterday.

The four-member Vietnamese swimming team with disabilities is ready for the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, from July 13-19.

 The best-performing team at the U13 Football Festival, held recently, will tour Japan from August 17 to 21.

Malaysia’s Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad (FGV) has announced its plan on cooperation in the cooking oil industry with Kinh Do Corporation and regional logistics solution provider Indo Trans Logistics Corporation.

 The first trial flight linking the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Thailand ’s Bangkok is scheduled to take off on July 21, announced the Can Tho People’s Committee on July 6.

 Foreign arrivals in Vietnam slid 11.3 percent in the first half of this year to reach over 3.8 million due to the looming MERS-CoV threat and downfall from the struggling Russian market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has issued an alert against rabies from pet dogs and cats, after two people died of the disease during the ongoing heat wave.

VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese poet Nguyen Phan Que Mai will release her latest book on patriotism on July 8 in Ha Noi.  

VietNamNet Bridge – A talk show focusing on contemporary Vietnamese trends will take place on July 8 at Heritage Space, 28 Tran Binh Street, Hanoi.