Scientists say they have taken a significant step towards treating some forms of deafness after restoring hearing in animals.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Leading Vietnamese singers will perform in a show at the HCM City Music Conservatory this weekend to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Van Cao, one of the country's greatest contemporary composers.

 PVF successfully defended their title by beating Viettel 4-3 after a penalty shootout at the National U17 Football Championship yesterday (July 9) in HCM City.

 Vietnam’s men’s football team nosedived 16 spots to 143th place in the world football federation (FIFA)’s rankings, which was released on July 9.

 Vietnam will continue speeding up renovations and administrative reforms, particularly in tax and customs procedures, in order to create an attractive investment climate for foreign businesses, stated Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

 Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong witnessed the signing of four cooperation agreements totaling $507 million between Vietnam and the WB in Washington D.C. yesterday.

 Vietnam contributes to increasing ECOSOC’s role, Vietnam, Belarus strengthen technical military affiliation, Lao newspapers cover Party leader’s visit to US, Party calls for better care for AO victims

 Vietnam denounced the recent terrorist attacks in Egypt that claimed many lives and left many other people injured, Vietnamese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh said on July 9.

 The two chairmen of the Joint Commitee on Border Demarcation and Marker Planting agreed on a series of issues in Phnom Penh during their three-day meeting that wrapped up on July 9.

 The justice ministers of Vietnam and Italy held talks in Rome on July 9 to discuss ways to foster cooperation between the two ministries in the near future.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivered a speech titled “US-Vietnam relations in a changing world” at the Washington D.C.-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on July 8 (local time).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 100-year-old Chau Van Liem High School in Can Tho City will be demolished next week as it has badly deteriorated.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lacquer painting by noted Vietnamese artist, the late Nguyen Gia Tri, was the second-most expensive work to be sold at the Larasati Auction in Singapore last weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese people should consider tourists their family, Deputy Minister Vu Duc Dam said at a ceremony held on Wednesday to mark the 55th anniversary of the tourism sector.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 900m street in Ha Noi's Tay Ho District, which links Lac Long Quan and Au Co streets, has been named after composer Trinh Cong Son (1939-2001), his family said.

When asked where Vietnamese enterprises would be in Rolls-Royce’s global production chain, a representative from the British group said Rolls-Royce was learning about experienced partners in the aviation sector in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nineteen medics, including 18 doctors and nurses and an apprentice, were confirmed as having been exposed to HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) after they performed an emergency surgery on a woman last Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Besides Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark, Ha Giang Province was known with mystic and attractive beauty of Noong Lake.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCMC-based model Kha My Van, the first runner-up of Vietnam’s Next Top Model in 2012, became the first Vietnamese lass to parade at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week 2015 on Monday night.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of normalization of the US – Vietnam ties, VietNamNet talks with former Foreign Deputy Minister Le Cong Phung, who served as Vietnam ambassador to the US in 2007-2011.