Miss Vietnam 2014 Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen has been widely criticised after a video showed her smoking in a coffee shop was posted online.

 Audience and experts have expressed doubts over the authenticity of the paintings that are on display at Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, suggesting most of them are fakes.

 Painter Nguyen Thanh Chuong has said a painting he completed in 1970 is currently on display under the name of Ta Ty dated back to 1952 at an exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.

 A man-made ‘beach’ in Hanoi's Quoc Oai Vi District, the first of this kind in Vietnam, will open to the public in August.

The National Assembly Office held a ceremony in Hanoi on July 15 to receive the national anthem The Marching Song, donated by family members of late composer Van Cao (1923-1995), and to bestow the composer with the Ho Chi Minh Order.

 The Vietnam Professional Football Company (VPF) intendeds another fact-finding ‘study-trip’ to Europe as part of research to improve the Vietnamese football environment, despite the scant results of previous trips.

 EuroCham released the results of its Business Climate Index (BCI) for Quarter 2, 2016 on July 14, revealing positive sentiment among EuroCham members about Vietnam’s business environment, with an index of 77.

The state resolutely refused to save the failing VND8 trillion ($361.4 million) Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel JSC (TISCO)’s iron and steel plant-phase 2.

Two lots of antibiotics manufactured in India are being recalled for not meeting quality standards, according to documents recently issued by the Department of Drug Management under the Ministry of Health.

 Nung society has developed close connections in residence, lifestyle, economics, and culture. The Nung live harmoniously and united in a close-knit community.

 Japan’s largest airline All Nippon Airways just announced it will double the frequency of its flights between Narita and Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City to two flights per day from October 30, 2016.

 Four people die in road accidents, US-funded centre for natural disaster prevention inaugurated, HCM City urges chemical restrictions, Water resources in Red-Thai Binh River basin under discussion

Hanoi launches programme to become start-up city, EU, VN firms discuss tie-up in water, environmental technologies, VN is fourth largest squid exporter to Japan, Woodchip exports tumble, numerous difficulties remain

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five hundred households in Dong Ao and My Tho communes in the northern province of Ha Nam’s Thanh Thuy District claimed that they have been suffering serious environmental pollution for many years.

VietNamNet Bridge - The industrial production value growth in the first six months of the year slowed largely because of a decline in the mining industry.

VietNamNet Bridge - Rough Guides has announced the top ten countries for backpackers, including Vietnam. 

 Nguyen Do, a 57-year-old man of central Quang Binh Province and the father of 14 children, said he wanted many children so he would not need to hire extra labour when he owned a fishing boat.

 HCM City’s cultural authorities’ efforts to promote book reading as a lifelong habit have been successful, drawing a higher number of visitors to recent book exhibitions and fairs in the past six months.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan urged enterprises to send recent reports on 4G testing results as the Government had policies to accelerate the licensing for 4G this year.

 The central coastal city of Da Nang plans to debut an open-top double-decker bus as part of the Da Nang City Tour service – the first of its kind in Vietnam.