It’s perhaps not too surprising that rice has been found to have other purposes than just filling your stomach.

Although biological gasoline E5 has been widely promoted in seven provinces for over seven months, customers have not yet changed their habit of using traditional gasoline while petrol stations do not seem to be interested with E5 bio-gasoline trade.

Vietnam’s total trade in June was $28.79 billion, up 0.5 per cent against May. Exports were $14.33 billion, an increase of 4.6 per cent, while imports were $14.47 billion, down by 3.2 per cent, for a trade deficit of $140 million for the month.

 Vingroup has signed strategic partnership agreements in project design, consultancy and management with the world's eight leading engineering and construction groups on July 17.

VietNamNet Bridge - Since Vietnamese shipping firms have not made appropriate investments to develop container fleets, they have had to concede the container transport market to foreigners.

 A group of international investors has won a bankruptcy auction for an abandoned airport in central Spain with a €10,000 (£7,000) offer - 100,000 times less than it cost to build.

 The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has climbed to 61st spot among the world's 100 top hotels chosen by readers of the US's Travel + Leisure magazine, its highest position ever in one of the world's most prestigious top hotels lists.

 As many as 42 lacquer paintings by 14 Vietnamese artists are being showcased in an exhibition at the Ganaisa Art Centre in the capital city of the Republic of Korea (RoK) from July 15 to 20.

 The pick-up of the property market has triggered bubble fears, but State management agencies said the market would be closely watched to prevent it from happening again.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Pham Quang Vinh attended and delivered a speech at the 48 th session of the Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT).

 The Investigation Police Department under the Public Security Ministry on July 17 arrested and launched criminal proceeding against two former executives of the Global Petroleum Joint Stock Commercial Bank (GP Bank), Ta Ba Long and Doan Van An.

 President Truong Tan Sang had a meeting with visiting Chinese Politburo Standing Committee member and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli in Hanoi on July 17.

 President Truong Tan Sang told Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong on July 18 that Vietnam is always willing to assist and cooperate with Laos in socio-economic development and human resources training.

 Google has heeded calls to remove a Chinese reference name to the Scarborough Shoal, a disputed island in the West Philippine Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Railways Corporation (VNR) recently submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Transport to upgrade 22 tunnels on the railway line between Ha Noi and HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Doan Minh Hung lives in a rented house, as he sold his land to open "love class", offering free education to over 130 underprivileged children in HCM City. 

 Former Fifa Vice-President Jeffrey Webb has pleaded not guilty in connection with a massive corruption scandal in the world football governing body.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The average room rate (ARR) in Ho Chi Minh City dropped 5 percent quarterly and 3 percent annually to 1.6 million VND/room/night in the second quarter of 2015, reported Savills Vietnam estate service provider.

 VietNamNet Bridge – No matter where you go around the globe, every major city puts its own spin on food, whether they're serving a slightly different version of a familiar favourite or a strange (to you) dish.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam cashew industry stands to lose billions of US dollars as a result of the failure to establish a framework to assure product safety of internationally traded foodstuffs.