The national football team will enjoy a training course in the Republic of Korea as one of their activities in preparing for the upcoming ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Cup.

 Vietnam had more than 14 million hectares of forest as of December 21, 2015, including over 10.1 million hectares of natural forest and nearly 3.9 million hectares of planted forest.

 The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced that its computer systems at Tan Son Nhat and Noi Bai international airports have been fully restored following cyber attacks on July 29.

Vietnamese students claimed two gold and one silver medals at the 48th International Chemistry Olympiad in Georgia.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism asked domestic travel agents to increase the management of tours to Russia as Vietnamese citizens have recently been refused to enter the country by tourism visa.

The Prime Minister on August 1 ordered ministries, agencies and localities to actively make preparations to cope with typhoon Nida, which entered the East Sea the previous night.

A string of new policies on tougher fires on transport violations and amendment of labor export regulations shall take effect in Vietnam in August.

Vietnam has eight universities in South East Asia’s top 100 universities according to the latest report from Webometrics, however, many of them have dropped in the rankings.

A proposal from the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport to borrow US$300 million from a Chinese bank to build the Van Don-Mong Cai Expressway is facing strong opposition from local economic experts and the public.

Vietnam has changed a commonly held international perception on the use of amber or yellow traffic lights. It is no longer permissible to travel through an amber light if travelling too fast to stop, instead the driver will be subject to a fine.

Despite the world market’s impacts, Vietnamese stock market has quickly recovered since early this year and estimated to be one of five markets having the highest growth rates in the world.

Cave tours to the recently-discovered Tu Lan Cave system, 70 kilometers from the Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park in Quang Binh province, have now been connected to tours to the Tien 1 and Tien 2 Cave systems.

Ho Chi Minh City was listed among the Top 10 new global party destinations by Traveller, an Australian travel website in July.

The Dai Nam Joint Stock Company has wrapped up preparations for opening a horse racecourse at the Dai Nam Tourism Park in southern Binh Duong province.

Real estate developers, consultants, and insiders are debating over the controversial list of 77 projects registered as mortgaged at local land registration offices, and released for the first time by HCMC authorities.

The broken chemical pipe system incident at Vinacomin-Dak Nong Aluminium Company’s Nhan Co alumina plant in the Central Highland’s province of Dak Nong has raised concerns about environmental pollution in the region.

Two of Vietnam’s richest groups have made significant progress in their ambition to become Vietnam’s largest hotel chain developers abroad.

The government has released the report evaluating the damages caused by Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co., Ltd, the culprit behind the mass dying of fish in the four central coastal provinces in April this year.

Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Co., which manages the country’s sole refinery, Dung Quat, made a profit in the first half of 2016, even though the government has not yet agreed to its proposals for preferential treatment.

 Miss Mekong Delta 2015 Nguyen Thi Le Nam Em has been designated to represent the nation in the Miss Earth 2016 competition slated for October in the Philippines.