Chairman of the Central Fatherland Front Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday visited athlete Vietnamese sprinter Nguyen Thi Huyen who is the first to be selected to compete in 2016 Olympics at her home town in Nam Dinh province.

 The Korean Chamber of Business (Korcham) wants to build a large wholesale market to connect local producers with buyers in Seoul and other cities in northeast Asia, including Tokyo and Beijing.

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 Vietnam and the US have signed four cooperation documents in finance, civil aviation, tariffs and United Nations peacekeeping on the occasion of Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s official visit to the US.

 Ho Chi Minh City was ranked sixth among the most dynamic cities in the world, according to the recent 2015 City Momentum Index of the real estate services and investment management firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

 Central Ha Tinh province signed five economic cooperation deals with German partners at an investment promotion conference held at the Viethaus in Berlin on July 7.

 Ho Chi Minh City will host the Mobile Game Asia 2015 for the first time which is scheduled to take place at Windsor Plaza Hotel on July 9-10.

Vietnam and the US adopted on July 7 a joint vision statement between the two countries on the occasion of the official visit to the US by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong from July 6-10.

 US Ambassador for Religion Freedom David Saperstein and the first US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Robert Seiple have applauded the great significance of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s US visit.

 The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) on July 7 revealed a detailed schedule on activities of players from England’s Premier League football club, Manchester City in Hanoi.

 Two collections of Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional long dress) by designer Si Hoang will be showcased in the “Mot Thoang Vietnam” programme in New York this month.

 Vietnam are still holding the No 1 spot in the Southeast Asian Games, according to FIFA's June ranking release.

 The eurozone has given Greece until Thursday to present new proposals to secure a deal with creditors, and has called a full EU summit for Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2015 National Theatrical Arts Contest, which concluded on Monday, showed not just the diversity of Viet Nam's performing arts community, but also the problems that have been facing it for decades.

  Average room rates in upscale hotels and resorts across Viet Nam saw a slight increase in 2014 even as occupancy rates decreased, according to a survey by auditing and consulting firm Grant Thornton.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) took over Global Petrol Bank yesterday, after the bank failed to meet a deadline to have secured legal capital requirements.

The International Monetary Fund has warned the US Federal Reserve against raising interest rates this year. 

 According to the goal of the Ministry of Transport, the international airport of Long Thanh must be built soon, Mr. Le Manh Hung, General Director of the Aviation Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) told VietNamNet.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Within three days, July 3-5, the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases admitted five cases of streptococcus suis, two of them were dead. All of them caught the disease after eating tiet canh (pig blood pudding).

 Local exporters are seeing their products exported to the European market less competitive as the euro has dipped against the US dollar due to the Greece debt crisis.