Local travel companies have launched a range of tours this summer with big price discounts for many products compared to the same period last year, Vietnam News Agency reports.

 The government of Binh Dinh Province has given the nod to Kim Cuc Investment and Construction Co. Ltd. to develop the first five-star hotel in the central province.

  UP Station, a newly-established bar-café on level 2 of Apocalypse in HCMC’s District 1, is where locals and expats can come to enjoy live music performances and learn how to dance in its diversified weekly programs.

 It may take two or three years to conduct feasibility study report and preparations for the construction of the Long Thanh International Airport, Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang to reporters after the National Assembly approved project.

Following the success of a teaching literacy project on Vietnamese values, the teachers at Giong Ong To High School in HCM City are moving ahead with a project on “learning literacy to grow up”. 

Vietnam have qualified for the semi-finals of the Asian Football Confederation's U14 Girls' Regional Championship for the ASEAN zone.

 The bilateral trade between Viet Nam and Russia is expected to reach US$10 billion by 2020, following a Free Trade Agreement between Viet Nam and the Eurasian Economic Union.

 Many residents in Ha Noi have complained about unusually high electricity bills for May and June.

 From next August, foreign tourists will be allowed to take their caravans to Vietnam, according to the Government’s new regulation governing foreign-registered vehicles in the country.

 A drill was organised at Children’s Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City to build the capacity of health workers to cope with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

 The country's waterway productivity is expected to increase by 72 per cent, thanks to the construction of ports and harbours and the dredging work in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of precious perfumed trees (Pterocarpus macrocarpus) in Chu Mom Ray National Park have been felled. Local authorities knew nothing about the incidents until they were informed by media.

 Scripps Networks Interactive has launched Asian Food Channel (AFC) programming on Vietnam's SCTV, expanding its reach through the country to six pay-TV platforms.

 Vietnam’s tallest building just one project set to benefit from legal changes allowing foreigners to buy houses in the country.

 PM gives nod to coastal highway project, Woman tests negative for MERS at Vietnam hospital, Two Peruvian sentenced to prison for stealing from foreigners, Vietnam Airlines offers special promotion on Japan route

US$5 million for Chan May port upgrading project, VietJet Air adds more flights between Hanoi and Da Nang, Irrational fees, rules render companies uncompetitive, Lack of interest thwarts Vietnam in high-tech farming

 The Republic of Korea (RoK) Ministry of Strategy and Finance on June 25 announced that it has given its stamp of approval for a US$41 million preferential loan for Vietnam to expand its water supply infrastructure.

 Website SmarterTravel has listed nine reasons explaining why Vietnam is becoming the best place to go in Southeast Asia , including food, language, hospitality, history and amazing sites.

 The stimulation of electronic governance must be top of the national development agenda through 2020, declared Information and Communication Minister Nguyen Bac Son.

 The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its Kawasaki counterpart from Japan (KCCI) inked a Memorandum of Understanding on June 25 to boost trade, business and investment between small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Eight persons were killed, four injured and four went missing as typhoon Kujira, the first one this year, lashed the northern and central coastal provinces on June 23.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in China is continuing to demand the country unconditionally return a seized Vietnamese fishing vessel, said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh at a regular press conference on June 25.

 The Mozambique’s Embassy in Vietnam held a ceremony in Hanoi on June 25 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh was hosted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo during his working trip to Jakarta.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will attend the seventh Mekong-Japan Summit, slated for July 2-4 in Tokyo, at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.