Tours to Hanoi Opera House, a historic landmark in the capital, have been put on hold after less than a year.

 Co Do Village will host its first ever painting festival about 60km to the northwest of the capital from July 28-30.

 A court in HCM City on Wednesday sentenced three kindergarten teachers a total of six and a half years behind bars for child abuse.

  Investigators from HCM City Police have concluded that a short circuit in a motorbike parked inside the buiding caused the fatal fire at Carina Plaza four months ago.

 The HCM City People’s Committee has issued regulations to ban trucks during rush hours in urban areas of the city in an effort to ease traffic congestion.

 Two pilots were killed when a military aircraft of the Air Defence-Air Force Service went down in Nghia Dan district of central Nghe An province around noon of July 26.

 Vietnam always wishes to further promote the friendship and cooperation with the European Union (EU), Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has told Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) Bernd Lange. 

 The People’s Committee of Binh Thuan has asked the Vinh Tan 1 Power Company Limited to suspend the trial run of environmental protection facilities at the Vinh Tan 1 thermal power electricity plant. 

The People’s Procuracy of Hanoi has indicted eight former officials and leaders of Xuan Dinh Commune and Tu Liem District for violations regarding compensation, resettlement and land clearance work.

Although the US is deemed a promising market for exporters, it also sets very strict import regulations. For this reason, Vietnamese enterprises are urged to improve their capacity.

 The Bkav Technology Group said on July 26 its virus monitoring system had discovered malware called BrowserSpy that is able to track users’ actions and steal their personal data, such as bank account information, and Gmail or Facebook passwords.

 Foreign investors in Viet Nam disbursed a total of US$9.85 billion year to July 20, representing an increase of 9 per cent from a year earlier, the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi has reportedly undergone considerable changes in its economic growth, appearance and infrastructure a decade on from administrative boundary expansions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more illegal parking spots for cars and motorbikes are springing up in central Hanoi, causing headaches for urban managers.

 Middle-aged people who feel dizzy when standing up from a lying-down position may be at a higher risk of dementia or a stroke in the future, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Poet and director Phan Vu, who is also a painter, is displaying 25 of his oil paintings at the newly established Binh Minh Gallery in HCM City.

 The capital city plans to install 1,000 vending machines by 2020 to make shopping more convenient for local consumers as well as foreign tourists.

VietNamNet Bridge - Financial institutes all report that foreign investors keep pouring capital into the Vietnamese stock market to take over Vietnamese profitable businesses.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Defending champions Thang Long Warriors defeated Hanoi Buffaloes 71-67 in their derby game of the Viet Nam Basketball Association (VBA) League on Tuesday.

 The European Commission has announced provisional safeguards on imports of 28 steel products including three items from Viet Nam.