Airbnb has listed Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City among the top 10 best cities for solo travellers. 

 Compensation for residents affected by last year’s marine environmental incident in the four central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue has been mostly completed.

 Vietnam grandmaster Le Quang Liem has earned a draw with Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine at the ongoing Hainan Danzhou Super Grandmaster Chess Tournament in China.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Medical experts are warning against what they see as an anti-vaccine campaign that is being waged on social media.

All fuel pumps at petrol stations in HCM City will be sealed from September 2017 to prevent tampering of their meters by the stations and ensure they fully pay taxes.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has reduced its prime interest rates and the cap on short-term loan rates as from July 10 to serve demand for capital in some economic sectors. 

 Viet Nam developed 70,900 national domain names (.vn) in the first quarter of this year, equivalent to 393 domain names per day.

 A derivatives market, which will start operations in August, is expected to draw more capital to the Vietnamese securities market for the rest of this year, experts told a seminar in HCM City last Saturday.

Recently government bonds have seen strong foreign buying despite the facts that the dollar is expected to continue appreciating due to the US’s plan to raise interest rates a few more times in the near future.

 Speakers from Viet Nam and abroad attended the July 7-8 conference to share their experience in building a national startup ecosystem and encourage Vietnamese startup businesses to develop. 

 Small and home-based business owners who use the Facebook platform to sell products and have revenue of more than VND100 million (US$4,500) per year will be taxed at five per cent.

The HCM City administration has instructed the Department of Transport to install LED lights in public places and schools on a trial basis to reduce power consumption.

 Heavy rain and flooding over the weekend in the northern regions killed seven people, including a family of four, and one person is missing.

 Police in the central province of Khánh Hòa arrested a Russian woman wanted by Interpol on drug-related charges.

 Investors in Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contracts are delaying installation of electronic toll collection (ETC) equipment at their toll gates on highways, officials say.

 Visitors have been flocking to the district to capture the distinctive beauty of rice terraces during the “mùa nước đổ” or water season.

 There are many hygienic and airy dental clinics like these in Ho Chi Minh City, a crowded city which attracts the most foreign tourists in Vietnam.

Torrential rain will continue in the northern mountainous region until July 15, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. 

 Police and market management forces in the central province of Thanh Hoa on July 8 detected a truck transporting nearly 2 tonnes of goods suspected to be ivory without proper documents.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted receptions for leaders of several economic groups and organisations in Amsterdam on July 9 as part of his ongoing official visit to the Netherlands.