VietNamNet Bridge – 358,351 out of 1,874,114 households in Ho Chi Minh City have not accessed to fresh water supply meanwhile the city has set its target that by yearend, most of households in the city will be able to access to fresh water.

 Domestic firms fail to qualify for Samsung production chain, Trade deficit reaches US$3.07 billion in first half of 2015, Vinamilk tops enterprises with the most varied information in the media, SMEs advised to adopt long-term growth plans

According to figures in the Vietnam IT Spending BlackBook for the first quarter of 2015, information technology expenditure in Vietnam’s health sector in 2014 stood at $18 million, a 12.5 per cent increase compared to 2013.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ngo Duc Manh, Deputy Chairman of The National Assembly’s External Affairs Committee, shines a light on negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Vietnam’s on-going preparations to optimise efficiency

VietNamNet Bridge – For several months, Hong Thuy, a worker with the Euro Window company in Quang Minh industrial zone in Me Linh district of Ha Noi found it hard to find a public pre-school for her two-year-old daughter.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport is expected to mobilize some VND288 trillion to invest in traffic infrastructure projects in the 2016-2020 period. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Their husbands missing offshore, these women take care of their children by doing a hard job: carrying ice. These photos were shot at the ‘village of widows’, 50km from the city of Thanh Hoa, central Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thirty-year-old Phan Minh Hong loves to raise chickens and his passion has got him hundreds of rare pet chickens worth billions of dong.

 It’s perhaps not too surprising that rice has been found to have other purposes than just filling your stomach.

Although biological gasoline E5 has been widely promoted in seven provinces for over seven months, customers have not yet changed their habit of using traditional gasoline while petrol stations do not seem to be interested with E5 bio-gasoline trade.

Vietnam’s total trade in June was $28.79 billion, up 0.5 per cent against May. Exports were $14.33 billion, an increase of 4.6 per cent, while imports were $14.47 billion, down by 3.2 per cent, for a trade deficit of $140 million for the month.

 Vingroup has signed strategic partnership agreements in project design, consultancy and management with the world's eight leading engineering and construction groups on July 17.

VietNamNet Bridge - Since Vietnamese shipping firms have not made appropriate investments to develop container fleets, they have had to concede the container transport market to foreigners.

 A group of international investors has won a bankruptcy auction for an abandoned airport in central Spain with a €10,000 (£7,000) offer - 100,000 times less than it cost to build.

 The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has climbed to 61st spot among the world's 100 top hotels chosen by readers of the US's Travel + Leisure magazine, its highest position ever in one of the world's most prestigious top hotels lists.

 As many as 42 lacquer paintings by 14 Vietnamese artists are being showcased in an exhibition at the Ganaisa Art Centre in the capital city of the Republic of Korea (RoK) from July 15 to 20.

 The pick-up of the property market has triggered bubble fears, but State management agencies said the market would be closely watched to prevent it from happening again.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Pham Quang Vinh attended and delivered a speech at the 48 th session of the Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT).

 The Investigation Police Department under the Public Security Ministry on July 17 arrested and launched criminal proceeding against two former executives of the Global Petroleum Joint Stock Commercial Bank (GP Bank), Ta Ba Long and Doan Van An.

 President Truong Tan Sang had a meeting with visiting Chinese Politburo Standing Committee member and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli in Hanoi on July 17.