VietNamNet Bridge - The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has decided that banks’ cross-ownership must end by February 2016. However, according to banking experts, the bank network remains ‘as interlaced as a spider’s web’.

 Viet Nam's software giant FPT inked a co-operative agreement on global business development with Slovakian Gratex International (GTI) in Ha Noi on Monday.

 PetroVietnam will continue to boost oil and gas exploration and exploitation activities this year to offset the impact of the slow recovery in crude oil prices and higher costs.

The HCM City People’s Court has rejected appeals by two gang killers found guilty of a massacre that shocked the country last year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Instead of conducting surgery on the injured nerve of the left leg of a 37-year-old patient, doctors of the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi operated on the right leg.

The nation-building and defence in the coming time have heavy tasks for the 14th NA and its deputies, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong reminded while addressing the opening session of the first session of the 14th NA in Hanoi on July 20.

 Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh has called on the international community to continue supporting Vietnam in effectively implementing the National Strategy on Climate Change Adaptation.

 Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and a high-level delegation from the Ministry of National Defence are paying an official visit to Cuba from July 17-21.

 About 15 kilogrammes of South African elephant tusks were seized by the customs office at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on July 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Taiwanese-invested Viet Phuoc Agricultural Produce Co., Ltd. in Binh Phuoc province has been detected to throw hundreds of rotten pigs in the area adjacent to upper Saigon River.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A man who did not finish high school believed that he could treat diseases by “Dharma" through splitting the patient’s body with a razor and by using medicinal herbs.

VietNamNet Bridge – In Binh Chuong commune of Binh Son district in the central province of Quang Ngai, locals have thrown hundreds of dead chickens into the Thach Nham canal.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue has promised help from the Government for the tourism sector in the central provinces hit hard by the Formosa environmental disaster. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Almost 1,100 households in the northwestern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai, Son La and Lai Chau are in areas with a high risk of landslides, erosion and flash floods.

VietNamNet Bridge - In Vietnam, South East Asia's largest market, brewers spend hundreds of billions of dong to hire promotion girls to serve marketing campaigns.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This year Vietnam’s Hoi An ancient town ranks 6th among the ten best cities in Asia, voted by readers of Travel & Leisure.

 Toyo Ink Group still on look out for power plant partners, $300 million Korean factory comes to Ha Nam, Authorities struggle to collect gold mine taxes, Trade balance reaches a plateau in Q2, Finance firms raise $1bn with deposit certificates

 A scheme to collect millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases and bury them under the North Sea off the coast of Rotterdam is Europe's best hope of showing it can make carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology work.

A seminar was held in Hanoi on July 19 to seek solutions to dealing with the influx of tourist arrivals in Hanoi, particularly those from China.

 An 1.3 kg hawksbill turtle, a rare species listed in the Red Book of Vietnam and the world, was released in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on July 19.