National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan listed an array of tasks for Hanoi to achieve its socio-economic development targets for 2017 while addressing the fourth meeting of the 15th municipal People’s Council on July 3.

A report from CBRE Vietnam real estate service provider, a shows that the number of restaurants in HCMC increased sharply in 2016 and will continue a rapid upward trend in 2017. 

China is importing 46.5% of Vietnam's rice, a huge increase from the previous 35-36% seen in previous years.

 With the trophy at the Thailand F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament, Vietnamese tennis star Ly Hoang Nam leapt 62 places to 475th in the latest rankings of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) on July 3.

More than 100 woodblocks and official documents under the Nguyen dynasty (1802-1945) demonstrating Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos are being exhibited in Lam Dong.

Vegan banana-tofu soup is the only-vegetable version of a traditional Red River Delta dish, which normally includes shellfish.

 Domestic automakers must manufacture autos under the Vietnamese brand name, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung suggested.

 The industry and trade sector expects to make a beeline for realising its export turnover target of 188 billion USD in 2017, or 6.9 percent higher than last year.

 Hoteliers are attracted to Viet Nam by a rapidly growing tourism sector, robust economic development and infrastructure investments, real estate consultancy JLL has said.

 The agriculture sector will have to step up efforts in many areas to meet three major targets set for the year, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has said.

The Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resource announced that the import suspension on uncooked prawns would lapse on July 6, 2017.

The Voice of HCM City People (VOH) radio station plans to open a new opera house called Music One this month.

 Authorities in the northern port city of Hai Phong halted the Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival on Saturday after a man was gored to death by his buffalo.

 HCM City plans to begin construction of 48 new traffic projects and complete 19 congestion projects in the last six months of the year, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

The number of children admitted to the Hanoi-based National Paediatrics Hospital for disorders following the use of a traditional medicine called thuốc cam has increased.

 Floods in southern China have killed at least 15 people over the past few days and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands more, 

 The central Quang Tri Province will lay a new water pipeline swiftly so that Van Hoa villagers stop consuming metal-contaminated underground water, which is suspectedly making them ill.

 Vietnam’s macro economy remained stable in the first six months of 2017 while inflation was curbed so as to reach the national steering committee on price management’s yearly target of 4 percent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dang Thi To Nga’s family fell into destitution due to her husband’s heroin addiction.

Ha Noi Police on Sunday have arrested three suspects involved in extorting money from customers at a karaoke parlour a week ago.