The Geneva Agreement, which will reach its 60th anniversary on July 20, marks an important milestone in the struggle for national liberation of the Vietnamese people and is considered a great victory of Vietnamese diplomatic sector.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) has announced plans for initial public offerings (IPOs) for five more large port operators by the end of the year. Hai Phong Port has already been equitised.

 A helicopter that had been involved in the search for missing passengers from the sunken Sewol ferry has crashed in the South Korean city of Gwangju, killing all five people on board.

The World Bank believes that Vietnam has about 110 super-rich people. However, analysts say no one can say for sure how many super-rich there are in Vietnam, and it is also unclear how they got rich.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Bill Clinton will come to Vietnam on July 18 as a representative of the HIV/AIDS prevention program of the Clinton Foundation.

VietNamNet Bridge - World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on July 17 began an official visit to Vietnam in an aim to strengthen relationships between the two sides.

 A powerful storm that battered the central Philippines has killed 38 people and left millions without power.

 Typhoon Rammasun, also known as Glenda, is on a path that leads to it making landfall in Nam Dinh and Haiphong, according to the latest bulletin from the National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre.

On July 14, the Southern Airport Authority ordered that companies lower their food prices at Tan Son Nhat Airport, where the exorbitant prices have drawn complaints for a long time.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The dollar price has been falling for one week, despite the State Bank of Vietnam’s move to devaluate the dong by one percent one month ago.

 At least 42 people have been killed and dozens injured in a suicide attack at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province, local officials say.

Economists have described three possible scenarios for Vietnam-China economic relations in the context of the East Sea situation, with the most likely scenario one of “struggling and cooperating at the same time”.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, the Nam Hai in Hoi An and the Park Hyatt Saigon have been ranked among the top hotels and resorts in Asia by readers of the US Travel + Leisure magazine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Images of ethnic people with indigenous tattoos and bare chests depicting life in the Central Highlands, are among rare pictures displayed at an exhibition that opened on July 10 in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The State Bank of Viet Nam will work with the public security forces to seize operators of the Viet Nam real-time bitcoin exchange (VBTC) that was launched last Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The northern region has been warned to brace for heavy rainfalls during July, the peak month of the rainy season.

VietNamNet Bridge – A crowd of foreign journalists on July 14 began a trip to explore Vietnam’s tourism potential, as part of a national tourism promotion campaign launched by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and Singapore have been selected to host the final round of the AFF Suzuki Cup 2014 – a football tournament organized by the ASEAN Football Federation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Female Vietnamese footballers will soon have a Japanese coach to replace China’s Chen Yun Fat who ended a contract with the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) in June.

VietNamNet Bridge – Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Tuesday called for the tightening of real-estate brokerage services as part of the draft Law on Real Estate Trading.

VietNamNet Bridge – French director Andre Menras has affirmed his commitment to continue his quest to document the continually evolving story of the fishermen of Hoang Sa (Paracel) and their struggle against Chinese oppression.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly's National Defence and Security Committee has proposed that the draft law on Citizen Identification includes a chapter with regulations on developing, managing and using the national citizens' database.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fifty-five foreign and 30 domestic delegations have registered to take part in the fifth International Vietnamese Martial Arts Festival, which will be held in the central province of Binh Dinh on August 1-4.

Nguyen Quoc Hoa, the creator of the Truong Sa submarine, has decided to test the sub during the ongoing Rammasun storm to examine its rescue capabilities under extreme weather conditions. However, some experts believe he is making a mistake.