A three-member family in Loc Thuy commune, Phu Loc district, of the central Thua Thien Hue province luckily escaped from the death when a freightliner truck hit and ran into their house, which is located on the Highway 1A roadside.

The Department of Tourism of Da Nang has imposed administrative sanctions on and recommended to the Da Nang People's Committee Chairman to expel four Chinese who had illegally worked in the city.

A HCMC deputy said that the establishment of an interim committee to monitor Taiwanese-invested Hung Nghiep Formosa Steel, after it caused the recent environmental disaster to four coastal provinces in central Vietnam, is necessary.

At Da Nang airport, a fuel truck on July 19 ran across the parking lot toward the special aircraft of the Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico Republic, who was paying a visit to Da Nang, reported Dan Tri online.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The border guards of the central province of Quang Binh on July 21 cast out six Chinese fishing vessels with 24 Chinese fishermen who deeply infiltrated Vietnam's waters.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung attended the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) held in Vientiane, Laos on July 22.

 Chairwoman of the 13th National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan was re-elected as the head of the 14th legislature during its first session on July 22.

 PM okays exceptions for Hanoi railway, Vietnam-Egypt Cultural Exchange Week begins, Former vice director of PVFI branch faces charges, Hanoi cracks down on smuggling via aviation, delivery service

 Officers from the Vietnamese Defence Ministry and Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) have agreed to further step up the bond between the two agencies in a more practical and effective manner.

 The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines earned a combined revenue of 36 trillion VND (1.62 billion USD) in the first half of this year, accounting for 72 percent of the set target. 

Viet Nam ranked first in Asia and fifth in the world in the 2016 Happy Planet Index, according to the UK-based New Economics Foundation.

Voters nationwide are concerned about China’s wrongful actions in the East Sea and want effective and consistent measures to be taken to protect Vietnam’s sovereignty over islands in the sea.

 Whether the paintings at the Paintings Returned from Europe in HCM City are original or not remain unclear as the exhibition came to an end while investigation is on-going.

 The Deputy CEO of the scandal-hit Sabeco seems likely to become CEO of the beer giant after the position remained vacant for months and led to its recent leadership crisis.

The United Kingdom stands ready to back Ho Chi Minh City in developing infrastructure, said new British Consul-General Ian Gibbons on July 21.

 Leading positions of the 14th National Assembly were named on July 22 during the legislative body’s first session following the secret ballot conducted one day earlier.

 Viet Nam has postponed a US$3-billion international bond issuance plan due to unfavourable conditions in the global finance and monetary market, the finance ministry said.

 Digiworld Joint Stock Company halved its after-tax profit target from VND140 billion (US$6.2 million) to VND65 billion for this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Three traffic inspectors in Can Tho, the largest city in the Mekong Delta, were arrested this week for taking bribes totaling $150,000 from local transport firms and businesses.

VietNamNet Bridge - The General Directorate of Fisheries has dismissed its Director of Aquaculture Department for making fake seafood certificates for the circulation of 800 substandard aquaculture products.