The Vietnamese consumer finance market has tremendous potential for development but its rapid growth has raised controversy over how it disadvantages and hurts people unfamiliar with it, experts noted on Wednesday.

A flood prevention project on HCM City’s Nguyen Huu Canh Street, which is frequently flooded by heavy rains and rising tides, will upgrade the drainage systems and install a pump station.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cage fishing farmers on the Bo River are distraught over an unexplained mass fish death that has caused great economic losses.

The Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival of the northern city of Hai Phong will lose national intangible heritage status if its organising process does not fulfill its safety commitments, 

Viet Nam defeated Brunei 2-1 for their second win in the ASEAN Football Federation U-15 Championship yesterday at the IPE Campus Stadium in Chonburi, Thailand.

Vietnamese and Japanese art troupes and artists will join the annual Viet Nam-Japan Culture Exchange at Da Nang’s administrative centre and the Han River port from July 27-30.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fire prevention and fighting remains a challenge for Ha Noi authorities, with many fires across the capital city leaving serious consequences.

Police have concluded that ex-banker Pham Cong Danh caused additional losses of more than VND6 trillion (US$266 million) in the second stage investigation into his case, 

Hundreds of parents have joined lucky draws to get a place for their kids at State-owned pre-schools, especially in Ha Noi’s new urban areas, due to the severe shortage of public facilities there.

Two French movies - “Un homme à la hauteur” and “Le Petit Prince” will be screened at L’Espace while the internationally co-produced drama film “Patterson” from last year will be on show at Heritage Space, Hanoi this month.

 Madonna was hailed as a "symbol of a motherly spirit" by Malawi President Peter Mutharika after the American singer opened a children's hospital named after her adopted daughter Mercy James.

The regulation that machines which have been used for more than 10 years will not be allowed to be imported to Vietnam is expected to affect Japanese FDI (foreign direct investment) in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Ly Hoang Nam and Chinese Sun Fajing came from behind to defeat Purcell Rhett from England and Stevenson Kelsey from Canada 23-6, 6-2, 13-11 in the quarter-finals of the China F12 Men’s Futures tennis tournament.

 Vietnamese representative Le Quang Liem pocketed his first win in the ongoing eighth Danzhou Super Chess Grandmaster in China.

 Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art (VCCA) will host two events on Saturday, with a workshop on flower arrangement and a jazz show.

 The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre will host an arts discussion on self-expression on July 14.

 African-American and white women who regularly chemically straightened their hair or dyed it dark brown or black had an elevated risk of breast cancer, 

 Heart Beat, a Saigon-based underground music community, will hold a music and light show with London-based techno producer and DJ Sigha at The Observatory on July 21.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s trip to Germany and the Netherlands, from July 5-11, was a success with numerous deals between Vietnam and the two countries signed, said a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry official. 

 Virginia treasures and wants to intensify cooperation with Vietnam, especially in economics, trade, and education and training, said the US State’s Governor Terry McAuliffe.