Environmental protection must be the top priority of businesses, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said at a reception on July 6 for General Director of Doosan Vina in Vietnam Jung Yeon In.

 A visiting delegation from the Communist Party of India (CPI) was received by Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of the Party Central Committee’s Mass Mobilisation Commission Truong Thi Mai in Hanoi on July 6.

 The 12th Party Central Committee on July 6 heard the Politburo’s proposal on candidates for top positions at State agencies to be submitted to the new National Assembly’s first session.

 People in Da Nang now can text or call to the Center for Public Service Information to arrange an appointment with an administrative agency rather than going to the agency to do so.

 The U.S. National Institutes of Health said it will fund a study to monitor U.S. athletes, coaches and members of the Olympic Committee staff for exposure to Zika virus while in Brazil, 

VietNamNet Bridge - The recent archaeological discovery proves the presence of people 800,000 years ago living in Vietnam.  

Vietnamese people are accustomed to fast food brands such as KFC, Lotteria and Jollibee. In recent years, the market welcomed more foreign brands like McDonald's and Burger King. However, they do not seem to be meeting the expectations of investors.

 Being an only Asian country to plant and export fermented cacao to make chocolate, Vietnam is expected to be one of the largest exporters in the region.

 Limiting personal transport means is suggested an urgent solution for Hanoi to tackling congestion, which is mainly caused by the mismatch between the poor infrastructure and the boom of individual vehicles.

The news of the deaths of three students from the Hanoi-based Foreign Trade University during a volunteer trip to a mountainous district of the northern province of Quang Ninh in early July has made people across the country feel sad.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A number of Government decrees were issued on July 1 to abolish a slew of business conditions in line with the Government’s promises to make life easier for enterprises and improve the business environment.

Low Keng Huat of Singapore has completed the sale of Duxton Saigon Hotel on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City for an anonymous investor with a transaction value of $49 million.

VietNamNet Bridge - Former well-known American boxer will be in Vietnam in the next few days to star in the movie "Girl 2".

 Two people died due to the heavy rainfall which drenched much of the northern province of Quang Ninh yesterday and this morning.

 Vietnam’s population density of 274 persons per square kilometre is 5.2 times higher than the world average, the Ministry of Health’s General Office of Population and Family Planning said yesterday.

 Dragon Capital, the leading investment management company investing in Viet Nam listed its Vietnam Enterprise Investments Limited (VEIL) on the London Stock Exchange on July 5.

Six months after landing in Japan, Vietnamese player Nguyen Cong Phuong told fans he would like to be part of Mito Hollyhock’s formation in the team’s upcoming game against Kanazawa on July 31.

VietNamNet Bridge – This month audiences will see the return of Margot Robbie in "The Legend of Tarzan", Matt Damon as Jason Bourne and Korean movie star Lee Min Ho in Chinese movie "Bounty Hunters."

Three Russian tourists brought hundreds of fake ATM cards to Vietnam, and in Nha Trang, they used the cards to withdraw more than VND100 million from the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Diving to the seabed off four provinces in central Vietnam to collect samples, scientists noticeddestroyed coral reefs and an absence of many marine species due to toxins like phenol and cyanide.