The Ministry of Agriculture  and Rural Development on July 25 held a meeting in Hanoi to discuss tightening of management in slaughterhouses in North Vietnam to ensure better food safety and hygiene.

Nix waste plan heads for the bin; Auto importers looking for a big pick me up; Int’l airports built only to serve domestic flights; Foreign banks asked to clarify credit plans; HCM City’s trade surplus hits US$1 billion in 7 months 

Business as usual means that while ASEAN negotiates a COC with China, China will continue to apply pressure and intimidation on both the Philippines and Vietnam, Prof. Carlyle A. Thayer wrote for VietNamNet.

Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang chaired a meeting in HCM City on July 25, to discuss a draft project meant to resolve difficulties in production and trade for businesses, as per Government Resolution 13 and 26.

 After more than two years of anticipation, Google finally announced Thursday that the company's ultra-high-speed internet service Google Fiber would become available to the residents of its test community Kansas City starting in September.

 Can Tho hosts final round of National Sports Festival; World of Japanese toys in Hanoi; Vespa Club helps raise funds for nation's ‘Heroic Mothers'; Hoi An-Japan Festival to boost cultural exchange in August

An exhibition ‘Vietnam’s lotus flowers - lifetime of lotus flowers’ on Wednesday opened at the Saigon Skydeck-Bitexco Financial Tower on the 49th  floor in District 1. 

 Floodwaters threaten Cao Bang Province; Illegal miners destroy rivers; 500 sets of remains unearthed in Quang Nam; Nghe An benefits from Pacific Partnership programme

VietNamNet Bridge – Students from the London College for Fashion Studies (LCFS) will present fashion films for the first time to showcase their designs at the Graduate Fashion Show in Ha Noi this weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Public Security's Investigation police have arrested the former chief accountant of Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) Nguyen Thi Bich Loan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A police officer who beat two journalists reporting on a land eviction case in the northern province of Hung Yen has been demoted.

VietNamNet Bridge – Only 18 percent of multistory buildings in HCM City have sufficient parking space, said the Ministry of Transport’s inspectors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Winning her berth by accident, Van Ngoc Tu will be the first Vietnamese judo martial artist in 16 years to participate in the Olympics.

Thousands of candles glowed and lit in martyrs cemeteries and monuments in districts throughout Ho Chi Minh City on July 26.

Experts believe that the bad debt ratio of the whole banking system by the second quarter of 2012 would be much higher than 8.6 percent, the figure released by the State Bank of Vietnam by March 31, 2012.

Climate change is likely to slow Vietnam’s economic growth and vulnerable sectors are liable to suffer huge losses, said a report released in Hanoi on July 26.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Besides three soldiers, four civilians have been identified involved in killing rare monkeys in the Central Highlands.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the first three months of 2012, Vietnamese cinemas earned VND273 billion (around $13 million). This is an impressive figure compared to previous years, a seminar reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s contestant at the Miss World pageant 2012, Vu Hoang My, contributed three rocks representing three regions of Vietnam (North – Central Region – South) to the World Rock Garden exhibition.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the morning of July 26, many websites of travel firms still introduced Da Nang beach as China beach. The Ministry of Information and Communications said to shut down these websites.

 There would be no recovery for the Italian economy this year, considering an erosion of domestic demand and a worsening global economy, Italy's largest industrial association Confindustria said in a report released Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A South African tiger at Trai Bo tourist site in Dien Chau district of the central province of Nghe An on July 24 delivered three babies, including two yellow and one white tiger.

VietNamNet Bridge - Tran Hung John, a young Vietnamese American man, is walking from the north to the south of Vietnam without taking any money along to prove to the world the hospitability and friendliness of the Vietnamese people.

Over nearly 40 years since Vietnam’s reunification in 1975, more than 140,000 people have been killed or injured by explosive remnants of war (ERW).

Passengers will have the opportunity to buy cheap tickets on offer from Vietnam Airllines over three days this August as part of its autumn promotion programme.