VietNamNet Bridge - According to Insider Retail, New York Dessert Coffee (NYDC) has closed all of its restaurants in Vietnam after many months of trying to continue to operate.

 Nearly 400 athletes from six countries and territories in Asia will compete in the 23rd HCM City International Track and Field Championships Open 2016, which is scheduled for July 29-30.

 Vietnamese badminton players will compete against tough renowned rivals at the 2016 Olympic Games, which will kick off in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 5.

 Commercial breeding and trading of wild animals should be banned in Vietnam as it will decimate numbers in endangered species and drive them to the verge of extinction.

 The number of international tourists arriving in Vietnam reached over 800,000 in July, a 41.2 per cent year-on-year increase, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism said.

 Nearly 80 households set up tents to prevent the operations of Giang Sơn Manufacture, Trade and Services Joint-Stock Company’s asphalt mixing station on Monday night.

Vietnam may fail to curb the sex imbalance at birth in 2016 as about 113.4 boys were born for every 100 girls during the first half of this year, higher than last year’s ratio of 112.8/100.

VietNamNet Bridge – Smart traffic measures will be applied to digital maps for road transport along more than 20,000km of highway stretching across the country. 

 Deputies at a National Assembly (NA) meeting on July 25 said the process of granting investment licenses to foreign-invested projects should be reviewed to fix loopholes.

Vietnam is off to a flying start in the 2016 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Women’s Championship after defeating Singapore by 14 straight goals in their Group A opener on July 26 at Mandalarthiri Stadium in Mandalay, Myanmar.  

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment yesterday afternoon put into operation an environmental surveillance station to supervise all waste discharge sources from Taiwanese Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Company (FHS).

A list of 77 housing projects in Ho Chi Minh City has been publicized by local authorities in a bid to provide clarification for residents.

  Citi and Morgan Stanley today announced the closing event for the strategic sale transaction of Vietnam’s national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines. 

Toyota Motor Vietnam in cooperation with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra yesterday announced the Toyota Concert Tour 2016 with the theme of Russian classical music.

The irresistibly adorable K Pop idol Sandra Park, better known by her stage name Dara of K pop girl band 2NE1 fame, has unveiled by Instagram her jet touches down on August 5 in Ho Chi Minh City. 

Leading opera artists of the HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform at an opera gala under the baton of local maestro Tran Vuong Thach at 8 p.m. on July 29.

VietNamNet Bridge - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced its new, five-year, $26 million project to strengthen and sustain Vietnam’s HIV and AIDS response.

 Beyonce's critically-praised visual album "Lemonade" on Tuesday earned the R&B singer a career-best 11 nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards, in a list that included multiple nods for Adele and rapper Kanye West but nothing for Taylor Swift.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The agroforestry-fisheries export turnover in July was estimated at US$2.64 billion, lifting the sector’s export value in the first seven months to reach $17.8 billion, up 5.1 per cent year-on-year.

  India on July 26 calls on stakeholders in the East Sea issue to show their “utmost respect” for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982 while seeking for peaceful solutions to the disputes.