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.

Apartment sales in Hanoi declined in the second quarter, while their supply increased in the first half of the year, a new report says.

 The central coastal city of Da Nang has been working to improve necessary infrastructure in preparation for the APEC Summit Week in November.

 The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has decided to form teams to handle its loss-making projects since the snail-pace progress of the process has displeased the Government.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sanna Khanh Hoa of Viet Nam claimed the silver medal at the ASEAN Football Federation Futsal Club Championship in Thailand yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam are in Group B of the men’s football event in the upcoming 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, 

Twenty-five golfers in the southern region have earned tickets to compete in the final round of the TP Bank World Amateur Golfers Championship (WAGC) Viet Nam 2017.

VietNamNet Bridge - A number of leading corporations have lifted the foreign ownership ratio limit after the government issued Decree 60.

VietNamNet Bridge  - 4K TV first appeared in Vietnam when SCTV showed its 4K Dolby 5.1 surround sound at the Telefilm 2017 exhibition. Later, VTC began broadcasting 4K TV programs on a trial basis.

 Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Hoang Quoc Vuong said the government might allow the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN) to agree to bankruptcy proceedings for some of its projects during a meeting on July 7.

 Nguyen Van Quang and his wife, who live in Truong Lac ward, Can Tho city, are poor but have 6 children, all of them afflicted with Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin.