VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh will visit a number of European nations and attend an ASEAN-EU meeting next week.

 Shares advanced on both national stock exchanges last week after posting losses in the previous week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – King Norodom Sihamoni said he was satisfied with the positive development of the friendship, solidarity and cooperation between Cambodia and Vietnam over the years, especially in economics and trade.

 VietNamNet Bridge - More than 80% of cargo containers in HCM City must go through Cat Lai port, but the port has been overloaded for several weeks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry has decided to appoint a Vietnamese citizen as its Honorary Consul in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge - VietJet Air on July 16 made its debut flight from Da Nang (Vietnam) to Seoul (South Korea).

Korean NA Speaker highlights relations with Vietnam; Vietnam fosters ties with Dominican Republic; Vietnam attends anniversary of Nicaragua’s revolution victory; Vietnam hopes for peace, stability in Ukraine

 US Secretary of State John Kerry says there is overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Japanese government has resumed official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam after a brief suspension over a graft scandal involving the Japan Transportation Consultants Inc. (JTC).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dep Fashion Runway 3, a fashion event held by Dep Magazine, will continue to select models through August 12, reports Vietnamplus.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese students have bagged three gold and two silver medals at the 45th International Physics Olympiad taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan from July 13-21, placing overall among the top ten.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three leading football coaches from FC Barcelona are coming to Vietnam to assist in the training and selection of young Asian football talents aged 13-14 at the upcoming Football Dreams tournament.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam A entered the final of the men's team event beating Vietnam B 3-0 at the Golden Paddle International Table Tennis Championships on July 18.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A taskforce policeman has been killed and another seriously wounded after a big drug trafficking ring was razed in the northern border province of Son La on July 19.

VietNamNet would like to introduce to our readers an article about conflicts in the South and East China Sea by the former U.S. Ambassador to Germany James D. Bindenagel, published on the US-based Boston Global Forum.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Of the 298 passengers killed on the fateful Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight shot down over eastern Ukraine, three were passengers of Vietnamese origin.

Soldier Nguyen Van Tuan of the Hanoi Command died at 10:45 am on July 19 after two weeks of treatment at the National Burn Institute because of his injuries, bringing the total number of soldiers who died in the accident to 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the evening of July 19, three consecutive earthquakes with magnitude 4.3, 3.2 and 3.5 on the Richter scale occurred in Muong La district, Son La province in northern Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Department of Food Safety, Ministry of Health said they had not found carcinogens like acrylamide and PAHs in samples of snacks and KFC potato chips collected in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Unable to find food and places to sleep, more and more cranes have left the Tram Chim National Park. Only a few dozen cranes still “reside” at Tram Chim.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While the Ministry of Construction has said that the real estate market has warmed up, reports from market survey companies show that supply is still far higher than demand.

 VietNamNet Bridge – English teachers fear that they may lose their job if they fail the upcoming exam re-sits.

At least six people were confirmed dead and three others remain missing after typhoon Rammasun hit northern mountainous localities on July 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The world’s largest oil and gas group Exxonmobil based in the US has moved ahead with its $20 billion gas power project in the provinces of Quang Ngai and Quang Nam, a sign of a new investment wave from the US.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Saigon is a miniature world with multinational cultures of both the West and the East. Besides Pham Ngu Lao – the street for Western visitors, it has a Japanese street – Le Thanh Ton.