Many banks have shown reluctance to give loans to fishermen in the central provinces to build new boats because of the lack of insurance after many boats have broken down despite only being constructed recently.

 Vietnam expects to record bilateral two-way trade of over 10 billion USD with China, the Republic of Korea, the US, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan (China), and Malaysia in 2017.

 Former US Secretary of State John Kerry said he wants to assist Ho Chi Minh City in attracting foreign investment at a meeting with Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan in Hanoi on June 21.

 The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee of (VFF) has launched the 13th journalism award for the Cause of Great National Unity.

 More than 50 public hospitals in Hanoi and HCM City have begun increasing hospital fees for patients who do not hold health insurance cards from this month.

The number of foreigners working in Vietnam has increased significantly over the last ten years, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs reported.

The high terrain in Tri Ton and Tinh Bien districts, An Giang province has created scenic, beautiful lakes like Ta Pa, Thuy Liem and Thanh Long, which attract a large number of visitors.

Belgian counter-terrorism police are probing the identity of a suspected suicide bomber shot dead by troops guarding a Brussels railway station after he set off explosives that failed to injure anyone.

 Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is retiring from acting, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday, ending a storied movie career that includes performances in "Lincoln" and "Gangs of New York."

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mobile phone users must submit portrait photos when registering for accounts, 

A Ministry of Health (MoH) pilot programme to combine tuberculosis and HIV treatments for TB/HIV co-infected patients in medical centres at district and commune levels has yielded positive results, 

SHB Da Nang knocked defending champions Quang Ninh Coal out of the National Cup with a 1-1 draw in the second leg of their quarter-finals match in Da Nang yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ten people have died and more than 36,000 have been affected by dengue fever since the beginning of the year, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 1.2 million people visited HCM City’s Book Street in the first six months of this year, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam grabbed six gold medals in the second Eastern Asian Youth Chess Championships’ blitz events in Mongolia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Language barrier is the biggest obstacle in investigation of crimes involving foreign suspects, said officials of the HCM City People’s Procuracy.

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VietNamnet Bridge - Vietnamese underwear enterprises are dying slowly because they cannot compete with smuggled cheap Chinese products with false labels of origin. 

 Over 130 photos on Vietnam’s landscapes and people are on display in Moscow ahead of the official visit of President Tran Dai Quang to Russia.

Bamboo Airways has yet to produce a financial confirmation statement as required by the current civil aviation rules, but the CAAV has proposed the Ministry of Transport ask the Prime Minister for issuing a business license for it.