A Dutch man who was beaten in the fight with a group of Vietnamese men admitted his fault that he was attacked, because he had insulted a car driver who had endangered him while driving. 

 As Vietnam emerges from international isolation and opens its markets, the expanded commercial trade offers significant opportunities for foreign transnational transportation and logistics companies, reports the Oxford Business Group.

 National carrier Vietnam Airlines has asked all its passengers to do check-in procedures two hours before the departure time of their domestic flights at the Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport.

 Vietnamese Hungarian athlete My Lan will compete in synchronised swimming at the 17th FINA World Championships scheduled for July 14 in Budapest, Hungary.

 HCM City topped the National Junior Finswimming Championships following two days of competition at the My Dinh National Sports Complex in Hanoi on Tuesday.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) and FPT Information Systems (FPT IS) launched their corebanking, accounting, budgeting application and system integration on Tuesday in Ha Noi.

 Eighty-six per cent of firms listed on the Ha Noi Stock Exchange (HNX) posted profits during the first quarter of this year, the northern bourse has announced.

 The Ha Noi Stock Exchange (HNX) will organise a pilot trading session on Wednesday to test and demonstrate the trading system of the derivatives market.

 There were some 11 million active bank cards in HCM City until the end of June, up 3 per cent from December last year, according to a report from the State Bank of Viet Nam’s HCM City branch.

Doctors at Trung Vuong Hospital has successfully performed their first endovascular intervention on a patient with renal infarct, a rare condition with nonspecific symptoms.

HCM City authorities are considering ways to expand Tan Son Nhat International Airport, including building more passenger terminals and speeding up approved expansion projects on military land.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam set a target of winning a gold medal for women and a berth in the final for the men at the coming Southeast Asian Games in Malaysia.

The next National Assembly meeting session will take place from October 23 to November 22, announced the NA Secretary General Nguyen Hanh Phuc yesterday.

A bridge will be built to replace the Chau Giang Ferry now being used on the Hau River in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, according to the Ministry of Transport.

 The U.N. cultural organization added an ancient temple site in Cambodia to its world heritage list, the government said on Sunday, bringing the number of heritage sites in the Southeast Asian country to three.

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign supermarkets have stepped up distribution of their products as the retail war heats up. 

 Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) has submitted its value to the Ministry of Transport for approval so that it can go ahead with equitisation.

The annual growth goal of 6.7 per cent is likely to remain beyond reach despite an improved economic performance in the second half of the year, says Nguyen Duc Thanh, Director of the Viet Nam Institute for Economic and Policy Research.

 Some 40 black shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nigripes), divided into three herds, have been found living on Chua Chan Mountain in southern Dong Nai Province’s Xuan Loc District.

 Ly Hoang Nam and Sun Fajing advanced to the quarter-finals of the China F12 Men’s Futures tennis tournament in Shenzhen City on Monday.