VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi will set up an inter-sector team to inspect the business operations and the safety of boats and floating houses on West Lake by next month, Vu Van Vien, the city’s Transport Department director said.

Vietnam’s 2016 growth will be moderate, at around 6 per cent, reflecting the adverse agriculture shock, lower external demand and spillovers of tighter global financial conditions.

 Considered a shady business by some, tattoos are seeing a slow but certain attitude change in Vietnam led by the urban young and hip – its growing middle class,

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the Viet Nam Social Insurance and Ministry of Health to take action and ensure that at least 90 per cent of the population is covered by health insurance by 2020,

The number of enterprises increasing their capital or returning to operations both increased in the first half of the year, according to the figures from the Agency for Business Registration at the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Formosa has accepted its responsibility for an environmental disaster in the central Vietnam, which caused mass fish deaths in four provinces in April, and committed to pay $500 million of compensation.

 Vietjet Air and the Incheon Tourism Organisation (ITO) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on June 30 signed an agreement to promote strategic cooperation in developing products and services, to facilitate travel between the two countries.

 The flag carrier Vietnam Airlines may have to reschedule its flights from/to three airports in the Central Highlands next month due to bad weather.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly yesterday agreed to postpone implementation of the newly amended Penal Code until all errors are fixed. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi currently has more than 5 million motorcycles and the figure will reach 11 million by 2025. The city has planned to ban private vehicles in 2025.

 VietNamNet Bridge - While catching fish in Van Tri lagoon in Dong Anh District, Hanoi, a local resident caught a crocodile of about 70kg.

China's statement to withdraw from the UNCLOS in response to the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration is not entirely a new idea, but if this scenario actually happens, it will have two major impacts on regional and international order.

  Events in Vietnam's major cities from July 1-15. Daily updated

  Mobile e-commerce (m-commerce) is set to boom in Vietnam in the upcoming years and companies need to forge plans to cash in on the growing popularity of this retail channel.

 Thailand's largest energy company PTT Public Company Limited has postponed plans to build the $20 billion Victory Nhon Hoi refinery and petrochemical complex in Binh Dinh, due to the uncertainty of the global oil market.

  Local residents are protesting Chu Lai Soda Processing Joint Stock Company’s relapse into discharging untreated wastewater into the river, in spite of the local authorities’ ban.

  Airport Corporation of Vietnam has just requested permission from the Ministry of Transport to raise service fees at domestic airports.

 Australia has suspended the export of cattle to Vietnam as a Vietnamese company violated the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS), affecting local livestock farming as well as the prestige of Vietnam in general.

 Vietnam vehemently condemns a suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport on June 28, Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Le Hai Binh said on June 30.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Unsightly and dilapidated temporary houses for construction workers that have long since been abandoned are affecting the landscape in some parts of the city.