Vietnam welcomed 10 million international visitors last year, the largest number ever, but more spending on tourism promotion is needed, a team of tourism enterprises told the second Vietnam Private Sector Forum.

Daily radio broadcasts on loudspeakers in Hanoi’s four central districts of Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, Dong Da and Hai Ba Trung, will be suspended until the end of 2018.

 The northern region will have rains and rainstorm from now on to August 6 according to the Centre for Hydrometeorology Forecast Central.

 Cleaning workers in Danang are trying to collect the large amount of rubbish that has covered beaches in the central city.  

 Danang City Department of Transport said on August 2 that they hadn't allowed Uber and Grab Car to operate yet despite an advertisement about Uber's pilot run posted on the internet.

 Former chairman of Southern Bank and Vice Chairman of Sacombank Tram Be has been arrested in a case that caused USD400m to go missing from the banking system.

 Three Vietnamese prodigies named Le Phuong, Pham Thanh Thao and Tran Bao Tran have won high prizes at the 7th Mozart International Piano Competition in Thailand.

 The second runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2016, Thuy Dung, will represent Vietnam at the Miss International pageant scheduled to open on October 25th in Tokyo, Japan.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has rejected a proposal to shut down a major iron mine over concerns that it poses risks to the environment.

 Domestic garment and textile firms have, for the most part, missed out on the much-touted benefits of free trade agreements (FTAs) that Viet Nam has signed, experts said at seminar yesterday.

 More than 200 domestic and international artists will perform at the 11th Arts Festival Autumn Melodies slated for August 19-27 in Ho Chi Minh City. 

 Traders producing and importing milk and food supplements for children under 6 years old will be allowed to self-determine the retail prices for their products.

 A delegation of the Vietnamese Consulate General in Khon Kaen, Thailand, on August 2 visited Vietnamese families in Thailand’s northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon province affected by the recent floods. 

U.S. scientists have succeeded in altering the genes of a human embryo to correct a disease-causing mutation, making it possible to prevent the defect from being passed on to future generations.

Chairman of Ha Noi’s People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has asked relevant departments and investors to plan out a response to the Government Inspectorate (GI)’s conclusion on wrongdoings ....

 U.S. retail giant Amazon.com unveiled the location of its first warehouse in Australia on Thursday, picking an industrial area outside Melbourne in a major step towards launching operations in the world's 12th-largest economy.

 U.S. President Donald Trump grudgingly signed into law new sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, a move Moscow said amounted to a full-scale trade war and an end to hopes for better ties with the Trump administration.

 The cyber attack that crippled Ukraine businesses and spread worldwide to shut down shipping ports, factories and businesses has taken a costly toll on the results of major U.S. and European companies ...

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese bankers have been warned that they should beware of not only well-known banks from Japan, UK, Singapore and the US, but rivals from South Korea as well.

Deputy director of the HCM City’s Department of Health Nguyen Huu Hung on Wednesday instructed city districts to speed up the opening of new general healthcare clinics for patients with HIV.