Hoi An offers night tours of Cu Lao Cham Island, Tourism festival to be held at Tram Chim National Park, Three Quang Binh beaches are major tourist draws, Mekong Delta orchards beautiful during harvest season

Nguyen Duc Cuong, Head of the Hydrometeorological Information and Natural Disaster Prevention Unit, spoke to Tai Nguyen va Moi Truong (Natural Resources and Environment) about an early warning system.

VietNamNet Bridge - In Vietnam, a car bears three kinds of tax and dozens of fees. Rice reportedly has more fees that any other product or service.

 Dai Hung Pottery Workshop in Binh Duong Province has upheld traditional techniques of making jars and jugs for more than 150 years.

 More than 300 candidates of the national high school exam were disciplined for violating examination regulations after the second part of the exam ended yesterday.

 Heavy rains and lightning are expected to hit the northern region tomorrow afternoon, giving local residents a respite from the extremely hot weather that lasted nearly a week.

 The MovieMov - Italian Film Festival will be held in the capital city from July 21-26.

 Scientists have warned that marine life will be irreversibly changed unless CO2 emissions are drastically cut.

 Vietnam pledges to support the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in strengthening the relations between the bloc and New Zealand.

A senior delegation from the Vietnam Defence Academy led by Senior Lieutenant General Vo Tien Trung paid a working visit to the Republic of Mozambique from June 30 to July 2.

 More than ten typhoons hit Vietnam in 2014 leaving 133 people dead or missing, and caused an estimated damage of VND2.83 trillion (US$130.18 million).

 There is ample opportunity for Vietnam and the US to lift their relations to a higher level in the future, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh remarked at a ceremony on July 2.

 Five children from Hanoi, aged 7 to 12, have won six first and four second prizes at three international music competitions which took place over June in Italy.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Tokyo on late July 2 to commence his three-day working visit to Japan.

US Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Frank A. Rose is due to tour Vietnam along with three Northeast Asian countries from July 5 – 16, the US Secretary of State announced on its website on July 2.

 Taiwanese E-United Group is unable to provide capital for Guang Lian steel project in the central province of Quang Ngai, putting it on the verge of bankruptcy, according to a source from the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Football Channel Asia, a popular website for continental football, has ranked two Vietnamese football clubs in top 10 doe highest average attendances in Southeast Asia. 

BP has reached an $18.7bn (£12bn) settlement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.  

VietNamNet Bridge – A group of folk musicians from Bahnar and Jrai ethnic groups from Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands will perform at festivals in Finland from now to July 9. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Have the Japanese been too slow to invest in Vietnamese real estate market? The current merger & acquisition (M&A) wave indicates ‘no’.