VietNamNet Bridge - VietJet Air has launched a duty free service on its flights from Vietnam to Singapore and Bangkok and vice versa to become the first Vietnamese airline offering duty free shopping on board.   

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of athletes from nine countries and territories in Asia will compete in the 21st HCM City International Track and Field Championships - Viet Nam Open 2014, which kicks off today, July 25.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has assigned Vietnamese representative agencies in China to work with relevant agencies of China to verify information related to an incident where three Vietnamese women were killed in Guangxi Province.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh on July 24 stated that the batch of Vietnam’s military equipment that has been temporarily seized by Finland is meant to go to Ukraine for repair and maintenance.

 The United Nations has sent its first aid convoy into Syria without the consent of the government in Damascus.

 VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City is known for the helipad perched on the roof of the Bitexco high-rise downtown, but there are quite a few other helipads in the country, most of which are unknown to many Vietnamese.

The wreck of a plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found in Mali, officials say. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on July 22 approved the US - Viet Nam agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Saigon Heat opened their ASEAN Basketball league 2014 season with a bang, as they convincingly beat the Indonesia Warriors in their opening match in HCM City on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It's been a week since the Viet Nam real-time bitcoin exchange was launched, but the public is yet to see the authorities take action against crypto-currencies as they had promised.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has plans to look for approval from authorities to own 20% of mobile carrier MobiFone when the latter goes public.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thirty-three artworks by Japanese artists Makoto Aoki, Hiroko Aoki, Toshiro Yamaguchi, Yumiko Nomiyama, Kinya Nakatami and Aki Miwa are on display together with 42 pieces by late Vietnamese artist Tran Trung Tin

 VietNamNet Bridge – A top family welfare official on July 23 urged the HCM City Population and Family Planning Division to soon submit plans for expanding a project on community-based healthcare for seniors to the HCM City People's Council

Travel agencies have re-started chartered flights to transport travelers from China to the central coast city of Danang after months of interruption due to tensions in the East Sea sparked by China’s illegal deployment of a giant oil rig

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People's Committee has asked relevant departments to review the progress of social housing projects and report on when the projects will be completed, before July 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 200 children from Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos are expected to attend a special exchange programme to be held from July 28 to August 1 in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bitexco Group has proposed a plan to the Quang Ninh People's Committee to manage tourism activities in the Ha Long Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay for 50 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A toilet-shaped coffee shop owned by a young girl in Hanoi has attracted customers with its odd style. Each month, the shop earns tens of thousands of dollars of revenue.

 Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s aviation sector needs a breakthrough in human resources, especially when airlines are expanding their fleets, launching new routes and preparing for their initial public offerings (IPO).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first-ever class in xam (ancient folk songs performed by blind beggars) for primary and junior high school students has opened in the northern province of Ninh Binh's Yen Mo District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will stop using all types of machinery and equipment containing poluchlorinated biphenyl, one of the persistent organic pollutants, by 2020 and safely dispose the substance by 2028.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City officials are concerned that due to longer and more confused procedures, a large number of drug addicts will be unable to enter mandatory treatment centres.